STRATEGIC PLANNING
We help organizations to craft compelling strategies
A compelling strategy that exploits an organization’s competitive advantage is critical to long term success. At Groove Management we have a formula for helping organizations to create strategic plans. This is a highly interactive and collaborative process that we lead teams through. It has many components, but in the end it is focused on gaining alignment and commitment.
“In 2018 when I took over leadership of an executive team, I reached out to Groove Management to facilitate a new leader orientation session to help the team build trust with me and between themselves. We had about a week to plan and Brian pulled this multi-day offsite meeting together with great success. The team started to meld from day 1. Since then, I have depended on Brian as a coach to help me navigate the challenging business climate, coach new executives to help them ramp up quicker within the team and to be a sounding board to help me drive change in the organization.”
Chad Schuchmann
COO
Daramic
Our Process
We like to begin with the end in mind. If the organization achieves its vision, what will have been accomplished? With this as a backdrop, we begin the work of crafting a strategic roadmap.
Diagnostics
It is essential that we understand your business and goals before we can be effective. We begin by looking in the rear view mirror. What got you here? What are the successes thus far? What has gone well for the organization? What do various stakeholders say?
SWOT Analysis
In an interactive session we challenge the leaders to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the business. The output from this activity helps to inform the overall strategy.
Where to play and how to win
Strategy is about making choices. Organizations tend to chase shiny new things and it is strategic drift that gets companies into trouble. We help leaders to be explicit in where they focus and how to leverage the competitive advantages of the business.
Identifying the TAM
What is the total addressable market for your product or service? Defining the size and scope of the market helps organizations to see market opportunities.
Competitive Landscape Analysis
An understanding of the competitive landscape is very important. A competitive analysis provides a gut check and realism about where the opportunities lie.
Additional Tools
We have a comprehensive set of tools that we utilize when helping organizations with strategic planning. Because each company is different we always start with a diagnostic to determine the best path forward. Industry and company stage have a significant influence on the approach.
Leadership Alignment
In our work conducting hundreds of strategic planning sessions around the world, we have found that our process has a second outcome that is equally important to arriving at a strategic plan. The second outcome is the alignment of the leadership team. Because the team co-creates the strategy, we achieve buy-in and alignment. While a good strategy is important, execution and alignment are often the differentiators between organizational success and failure. We have confidence in our approach because it yields powerful strategies and well aligned teams.
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