We provide deep expertise across industries based on our combined 60+ years of experience.
Our training helps you excel at making important decisions that are vital to the future of your company. We go beyond to train you and your team to embed strategic thinking into your companies DNA - to make strategy everybody's everyday job! Start with our course - or contact us for our in-depth, 1-on-1 consulting if you are interested in our premium services.
What is Strategy Consulting and Training and Why do You Need It?
Strategy consulting is one of the most in-demand and expensive services available today. And it is also often misunderstood. Here we provide our insights into why you should learn to do strategy, and teach your teams as well. This is why we offer white box consulting where we train you - as opposed to the more traditional black box consulting which amounts to "they do it for you and you learn nothing - hence you have spent a lot and gained very little in terms of being able to do it independently."
What Is Strategy Training?
Strategy Training provides organizations with processes for making high-level strategic decisions in an unbiased, data-driven, informed fashion, initially leveraging our deep industry knowledge to deliver the best results. We typically provide training at the highest level of a company and then expand to assist you in training at other levels as desired.
Our experience enables us to work across every industry, whether private or public sector, and focus on a wide range of strategic issues.
For example, your company may be looking to save money in a shrinking market, so you consider closing one of your manufacturing plants. You want to know if this is a worthwhile course of action, which of your plants should be closed, how much money it will save you, how much it will cost you, and how you should restructure your supply chain to manage this loss of production - this is where our support can come in.
Additionally, if you are facing shrinking markets, we excel at helping you figure out how to introduce new and disruptive products and services. Take the lead in your industry again!
Why Use Strategy Training?
An obvious question that comes to mind is "Why don't organizations just take care of these questions themselves?".
We are generally brought in on the important decisions that are vital to the future of the company, to make sure that every position is considered. We devote ourselves entirely to the question at hand, enabling you and your executives, who we know are busy with the actual running of the company, to continue on as we work closely with you and others on your team. We are experts offering deep expertise in many industries and situations - everything from M&A, to market positioning to restructuring to operations planning, and more.
We fulfill a special position during a merger, before the transaction is completed, since it is illegal to share information between the two companies. We operate independently, sourcing information from both parties to help develop a strategy to hit the ground running the moment the process completes.
What Skills Do You Need?
As well as our expertise in industry specific knowledge, there are a few general skills we bring to the table and transfer to you and your team, which are essential.
- Analytical skills: The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data, to assess problems and structure solutions and to present information at a range of levels. These skills are used in every situation we encounter.
- People skills: Strategic Planning is a people focused activity and a lot of your time will be spent dealing with individuals and teams in order to better understand the issues your company is facing. You need to be able to build relationships, be persuasive when necessary and know when to defer.
- Time management: Strategic Planning is rigorous work driven by tight deadlines and pushing our a launch or entirely missing the deadline is never a desirable option.
- Continuous Learning: Even once you’re an expert, there will be plenty more for you to learn. You need to always be aware of your own performance, finding ways to improve.