Every organization has a need to understand, evaluate, and resolve an urgent strategic or operational issue. Time and the quality of decision-making are important – and they don’t need to be in opposition.

Strategy Acceleration is a carefully designed, customized process that takes the knowledge of key contributors in your organization to rapidly confront your key strategic issue; the outcomes are aligned leaders, actionable work plans, and personal and group commitments to organizational success.

Strategy acceleration sessions typically require several weeks of design, preparation, interviews, and pre-work. They culminate in an intensive 2 to 7 day session involving the leaders and key contributors best positioned to provide guidance, engage in open and authentic dialogue that is always focused on business value, and choose the answers that best create value for the organization.

This team (and often sub-teams) specifies the problem or opportunity, identifies creative alternative solutions and implementation barriers, selects the best response, and develops action plans that can be immediately put to work.

Examples of work we have successfully done, and are prepared to help you with, include:

• Align and gain management team commitment to changed business priorities as a result of a merger, acquisition, competitive or leadership change

• Convert a strained and under-performing relationship with a key value chain partner to a healthy one based upon mutual understanding, shared plans, visible commitment, and business value for both firms

• Identifying growth opportunities and organizational action plans that achieve them while minimizing disruption to other areas of the business

• Identifying cost reduction opportunities and subsequent action plans in ways that create positive organizational commitment snd verified capture of intended value

• Accelerating the development of new sustainability oriented products, services, and business models so that companies achieve return and value from their strategies more quickly

• Developing strategic business innovations that create unique customer experience differentiation through collaborative efforts with your key customers

Our expertise in designing and facilitating large group decision-making (and in using it ourselves) significantly increases your odds for successful sessions and for creating the commitment, plans, communications, and governance that assures successful implementation after the sessions end.