Strategic Consulting

Strategic Consulting services help CEOs develop and execute a winning strategy in the face of uncertainty. 

 

Strategy DevelopmenT

Strategy Development facilitates the process to set the direction, articulate priorities, and allocate resources so that your entire organization is working toward the same goal.

Do any of these situations sound familiar?

  • Priorities are scattershot. Business units are not moving in same direction. Opportunities for cross-revenue and cross-profitability are missed.

  • You’re trying to be everything to every customer. It’s affecting quality and muddying your market message. Customers are confused and interest is lackluster.

  • You can’t keep up with market changes. Customers are beginning to perceive your service/product as old and outdated.

  • You’ve lost the competitive advantage. Revenue continues to decline.

You’d like things to be different. You need:  

  • A cohesive strategy so that the company moves forward together and wins in the marketplace

  • A strategy that will choose what you will and won’t do, and aligns company resources with its priorities.

  • A strategy that reflects changing market conditions and includes insights from key stakeholders, including Board members.

  • A strategy that truly understands your customer needs and is biased toward action.

  • A new go-to-market strategy.  You must make tough choices in which markets you want to play, so that you create value better than your competitors.

 

Together we will…

  • Get a new approach adopted within your multi-stakeholder environment

  • Make the tough decisions and remain disciplined about your approach to the market.

  • Develop a new strategy in a matter of weeks, not months, allowing you to make any changes quickly.

  • Create a set of choices that form a plan in the face of uncertainty and create wins in the marketplace.

 

 

Strategy Execution

Strategy Execution helps you design, build, and implement structures and processes to systematically implement plans, align resources, measure performance, develop human capital, and use performance data to inform decisions.

Can you relate to one of these situations?

  • Employees feel strategic planning fatigue as plans are never fully implemented and promised progress in the market never fully unfolds.

  • You don’t have clear goals or measures as a company. Neither executives nor employees know what is expected of them, creating lackluster performance.  

  • Too many decisions aren’t made in the context of the company strategy, so the company will never achieve its full potential.

You’d like things to be different

  • A systematic implementation of a strategy that automates certain processes and provides invaluable data to inform executive decision making.

  • Establish near-term goals and targets when implementing your strategy to jump-start the organization moving in its new direction.

  • An integrated strategic management approach that will tie together every organization and person in the company and maximize their human capital.

 

Together we will…

  • Align the organization’s priorities with allocating resources, and provide you with the data you need to make important decisions. Employees will be energized as they know how their roles support the mission and strategy.

  • Design a strategic management system that measures and manages all cultural elements and optimizes decision making.

 

Ready to take the next step?


 
 
 
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Julie’s ability to frame the big picture for the 2020 Decennial Census National Partnership Program aided in gaining quick consensus from a diverse stakeholder community. The strategic framework has become the standard for the Census Bureau to use when planning and executing public-private partnerships in support of a decennial census.

-Hershel Chandler, Managing Partner, IUI, Inc.

Julie developed creative, yet pragmatic, options for our non-profit's forthcoming role after our budget nearly doubled.  Her analysis combined with her sage advice helped us make a vital decision about our future.On matters from developing staff to managing difficult situations, I call on Julie to provide intelligent and compassionate guidance that is always clear and points a way forward.

-Joy Ford Austin, Executive Director, Humanities DC