STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Strategy describes how organizations navigate to improve performance: how they identify a destination, set priorities, mobilize resources, and measure progress.
Strategy is often dictated from above, developed without a balanced internal/external perspective, and constrained by short-term budgets. Here’s a typical process view:
We've developed a better way, incorporating multidimensional inputs, leading to a more practical and strategic perspective:
Through our strategic development process, we help clients:
- assess the landscape, and current/competitive position
- articulate a vision and purpose
- for social impact organizations, delineate logic models and theories of change
- formulate strategies, making practical choices
- link strategies to performance metrics and action plans
- align roles and systems
- implement programs
- measure progress, interpret results, course-correct.
Deliverables typically include:
- stakeholder, competitive, financial, and organizational analyses
- a strategy and set of implementation plans that improve performance
- concise targets and performance metrics
- a common language, and a structured process for monitoring and interpreting results.