Values-Based Strategic Planning
Determining the direction in which you want to take your business is a difficult task, but the Rick Timlick Group of Companies has guided the choices for senior executives in many organizations across the globe.
Your company requires you to act and react with decisions that help "create value" or a "sustainable competitive advantage". It's a lot to ask, and it begs the question, "How do I know that I'm making the 'right', most effective choices?"
Linking Thought and Action
Experience working in hundreds of organizations has taught us that even when your future destination is fixed (an increasingly unlikely scenario, given rapidly changing economic forces and other factors), many issues and decision points emerge enroute to that destination.
Asking the right questions and gathering pertinent data to illuminate the issue and inform your considerations are good places to start. But thinking alone won’t get you to desired results. Disciplined strategic thinking informs —and is in service of—the most effective strategic action.
Therefore, strategic choices about where do you want to go, where are you now, and especially how you are going to maneuver toward your desired future will occupy a significant portion of our time.
Assessment of Current State
Where are we now?
Strategy and Implementation
How will we get there?
Desired Future
Where do we want to go?
The “right” most effective decisions can’t be known in advance. Words like right, effective, and strategic are measured by the results. We ensure you are focused on the right results by guiding you through key conversations and co-building key systems of managing the organization towards that desired future.
Finally, our process incorporates the principle that you cannot really implement strategy effectively without the understanding, buy-in, and alignment of those who will have to carry out the work.
Your ability to elevate and expand conversations by posing strategic thinking questions for others in your organization will create the “meta-capability” the enterprise needs to handle both anticipated business situations and emergent problems and opportunities.