The UGM approach to Strategy Design and Facilitation
We can help you:
- develop an organisational or business unit strategy that has buy-in because your people are actively engaged during the process we expertly facilitate.
- create and refine your evidence-based strategy through a thorough scan of the external and internal environment. No blank white board or waffle. We use a set of customised tools that will engage (and challenge) your people.
- craft a set of workable action plans as part of the strategy process. This will set you up for immediate implementation and prevent your strategy workshop from ending up being remembered as a wasteful talkfest!
The approach UGM takes to strategic planning involves stepping you and your team through a carefully chosen sequence of robust thinking tools, tailored to your organisation’s particular business challenges. Research studies and our own experience over many years of strategy facilitation consistently demonstrate that visual tools help to focus diverse minds and thinking styles. They provide both stimulus and structure and ensure a senior team is able to think well together.
This matters because the very significant degree of complexity facing organizations today means that no single individual (no matter how senior, knowledgeable or talented) can devise the best way forward by thinking entirely alone. You need all the brain power you can get! There’s no room in a modern, successful organization for the old hero-leader who comes to work on a Monday morning with a complete strategic plan that they devised alone over the weekend. It doesn’t work and they rarely get the buy in and engagement they need.
Click here to read more about our approach to Strategy Design and Facilitation. The Enhanced SWOT Analysis and Adapted Force Field Analysis resources are two of the classic strategy tools, from our much larger suite of tools, that we often use with clients during the strategy design process. Our repertoire is as wide as it is flexible. We have successfully deployed our strategy development processes in very large ASX 100 companies, small start-up businesses, and public sector and not-for-profit organisations.
You might also find a number of the strategy-related UGM newsletters of interest.
If you'd like to receive further information about UGM Consulting's approach, please click on the e-mail link info@ugmconsulting.com.
