Replacing the old strategic planning by a new approach is not an original quote, is it?

Take a look at this scene: Each 3-5 years we gather everybody (really? no, not everybody actually) for an off-site place, far away from the headquarters, and plan our strategy for the next years.

Guilty! Many times I have participated in those events. And, won’t lie, I still do. BUT, nowadays when hired to doing so, we at Stratega always present a different mode of strategizing.

Begining with a Journey, whatever the time we have to accomplish it (days, weeks), we take the opportunity to put together a group of elements that provide a system to enable the ongoing journey. It is possible. And very effective.

These last 4 years working with companies of different sizes (from R$ millions to R$ billions of revenue), several indutries (manufacturing, metal-mechanic, food & beverage, wood & furniture, financial services, textile & apparel, technology etc.), from private and public sectors, in distinct regions in Brazil (São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Ceará, Rio Grande do Sul, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pernambuco), engaging small and large groups of people (from 5 executives to 120 leaders) are enough experience to convince us that we are in the right path.

The outcomes are various:

• A faster decision-making process, due to the visual tools we provide to the client;
• Broader perspectives, increasing and enhancing strategic options before defining investments;
• A different look at risks – actually, a different form of identifying risks – that instead of preventing innovation, foster it;
• Clearness, coherence and consistency in the narrative through a simple and yet deep set of questions that functions as a script to build coordinated strategies;
• Engagement and high levels of motivation – we make strategy fun and stimutalitng again! – which leads to commitment and streamline execcution.
• Combinantion of qualitative and quantitative thinking, combining stories and numbers (stories give meaning to numbers, numbers make stories tangible);
• As a by-product of the process, a complete system to manage strategy and renovate it as a continuos journey.

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Are you a CEO, a business owner, a C-suite executive or a leader within an organisation that wants to change the way they do startegy? Contact us, we can work alongside you to help changing the culture.