Business Strategy Design Consultants

Strategy Design and Facilitation

Strategy is a careful balance between art and science.

We don’t believe that strategy offsites are solely about facilitation. The process of strategy is delicate and requires deep curation, design, orchestration and execution. Our process, based on hundreds of strategies that we have designed, brings together a diverse team that works together to orchestrate a deeply impactful strategy.

A typical strategy journey with a client will have a dedicated team composed of the following experts from our team:

TEAM MEMBERS	ROLE PLAYED	ROLES FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Chief Strategist/ Orchestrator	The Chief Strategist leads the strategy journey. This person has led strategy journeys for numerous boards and EXCOs globally and thus plays a critical role in owning your journey and ensuring that all participants come together to orchestrate an incredible strategy.	Understanding the client need and objective of the strategy. In essence translating your need to a design what will achieve the desired outcome Building the strategy frame and architecture Lead facilitation during the offsite Leading the strategy output and execution dashboard
Senior Analyst	Key substantive support to the Chief Strategist. This person will be responsible for supporting the chief strategist by ensuring alignment with the strategy frame. This person also leads the development of all outputs by ensuring that all discussion are captured and then put into a robust strategy output. Leads the design of all session processes/ templates and ensuring alignment with the overall strategy map.	Lead support to the Chief Strategist Ensuring alignment with the strategy map and overall architecture Leads the capturing of all outputs and then putting this into a robust strategy output and execution dashboard
Analyst	Supports the Senior Analyst in capturing all key outputs.	Support the chief strategist and Senior Analyst to ensure all discussions are accurately captured
Graphic Recording Team	This team is skilled in translating key insights into a beautiful graphic format, in real-time, to ensure that all delegates in the room can see the translation of their thoughts into action.	Graphic harvesting and then recording of the overall strategy in a live drawing Capturing of key insights in a way that translates thought into visuals Developing a link between head to heart by visualising the strategy in real-time. This is done on large by physical canvasses in the room and on digital boards
Events Manager	Our strategy process goes deep into venue setup, table setup, session design, template design, process design and overall alignment between the client need and design of the strategy.	Briefing all teams on the overall venue setup and ensuring that the entire events team is aware of the strategy map and the setup of the venue Working in briefing the client teams on key aspects of the venue Setup of all pre-printed strategy tools and frameworks

What We Do

The Strategists has deep global and local expertise and capability in the areas of strategy, sensing and solutioning, immersive learning, learning and development and executive advisory. Our diverse and multidisciplinary teams have led strategy, innovation and learning solutions for hundreds of leading organisations globally. We work with our clients to ensure that we design the right solution based on their needs.

Our work in facilitating strategy includes:

Strategy offsites involve deep conversations by the leadership team to identify the strategic intent, specify quantitative goals and determine the strategic focus required for us to win in a changing context—articulating the direction, motivation and challenges that the function will rally behind.
This is done by drawing on work around dynamic capabilities, the strategic choice cascade and the ambition matrix, among others (as needed).
The Strategists’ role: design and curate the strategy deep dives, facilitate, co-craft the strategy, capture output and provide guidance on the execution of the strategy.
Areas include:
- Strategy facilitation with Boards, EXCOs, Business units, or event teams.
- Strategy deep dives to solve specific pain points or unlock specific opportunities.
- Strategy sprints to gain further inputs and buy-in.
- Strategy cascades to communicate the strategy with the broader team.
- Full strategy output report 10 days post the strategy session.
- A live strategy implementation dashboard.
- Personalised, strategic coaching.
- Strategy cascading and communication.
- Strategy sprints to get deeper buy-in and input.

We believe that building a strategy is one part; cascading it is just as important. We assist clients in telling their strategy in the most unique formats—from activations with leading voices, to world café sessions with hundreds of staff, to unique gifts that tell the story. 