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Business Strategy

Empowering your strategy every step of the way.

Our structured strategic planning process unites teams, clarifies objectives, and directs resources. We drive business transformation by prioritizing outcomes and fostering adoption. Specializing in manufacturing, industrial, chemical, and healthcare industries, we ensure enduring success by aligning goals with business priorities. Our approach includes crafting an actionable roadmap for execution, setting KPIs, and implementing governance and accountability structures to ensure value realization. We work with other sectors too, but this is where our experience shines.

Alex Pointon

Managing Director,
Business Strategy

“We partner with business leaders to navigate industry complexities and craft strategies that drive sustainable growth.”

Business Strategy Capabilities

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Strategic Planning & Roadmapping


Define and clarify your vision to develop practical and executable strategies to reach your organizational ambitions. 

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Operating Model Activation Planning


Refine your operating model and develop the execution plan through analyzing current capabilities and activities.

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Value & Measurement Strategy


Define, measure, and track progress to ensure value realization—from developing KPIs to establishing value realization offices.

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Governance & Accountability Strategy


Lead the creation and maturity of foundational governance to successfully launch and achieve your strategy.

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Define Your Strategic Priorities

This quick 20-minute webinar is designed to help you with the initial phase of your strategic lifecycle plan. Aspirant's Engagement Manager, David McCoy, offers valuable perspective and provides practical planning and workshop tips.

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Corporate Strategic Structure

It is the bedrock of any successful organization. Solidifying Goals, Objectives, and KPIs eliminates ambiguity with developing a cohesive action plan.

We can help you navigate this process by aligning your corporate strategy with actionable insights, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and supporting the execution of your organizational vision to drive tangible, scalable results.

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Strategy Planning: Your Path to a Future Vision

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A well-crafted strategy is the roadmap that takes your company from where it is today to where you want it to be. It defines the actions and capabilities needed to achieve a competitive edge and deliver value to your stakeholders, customers, staff, and community.

 

Capability Details

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Strategic Planning & Roadmapping

You wouldn't get in a car without knowing where you were headed, right? The same principle applies to managing a company. Without a proper strategic planning process, you are driving blind. Solidifying and documenting your business strategy will create the needed clarity on what your organization intends to do.

Corresponding metrics and smart goals will establish how you plan to achieve those objectives. This forms executional priorities for managers, teams, and individuals, empowering them to focus efforts on initiatives that directly impact the shared key performance indicators (KPIs).

In close collaboration with client stakeholders, we identify the people, process, and technology needed to reach and maintain the targeted business goals. That includes the enablement of risk analysis and contingency planning practices that create a meaningful competitive advantage. The installation of programs for monitoring metrics and establishing governance will help ensure accountability going forward.

Whether you are starting from scratch or have an established strategic planning process, Aspirant can help implement a planning framework that will improve your company's performance.

Operating Model Activation Planning

If a strategy is what your organization is working to achieve, then your operating model is the structure for how you will achieve it. This formal structure of how your organization interacts is a critical component of organizational success. Additionally, for any operating model to be effective, it must be aligned to your organization’s strategic goals.

Working with your organization’s leadership, we will review your current operating model(s), analyze and understand the alignment to your strategic plan, provide recommendations for refinement or redesign, and conduct detailed planning for how to ensure your operating model is deployed, understood, communicated, adjusted and matured in the most effective way.

Value & Measurement Strategy

How do you know if you are being successful? Is that new project having the intended result? Do we need to adjust our strategy, annual plan or daily operation? To answer these and many other questions you need metrics. Whether you call them measures, KPIs, OKR, or something else, we are talking about measuring work, impact, effectiveness, and value. Defining value and how you will measure it is a necessity and must be thoughtfully developed and designed.

We work with you and your teams to define value, establish how to measure it, and set up the structures to ensure data is collected, understood, and utilized in effective decision making. Additionally, we focus on making sure your value and measurement strategy is lightweight, fit for purpose, and support the achievement of your overall strategy.

Governance & Accountability Strategy

Whether it is new strategy, improvement project, metrics development, innovation, or daily operations governance, developing the capabilities, rigor and routines to ensure that your teams are being actively managed is a critical component to achieving your goals. Formal governance and accountability systems must be intentionally designed, implemented and matured.

We work with you to establish, define, run, and mature a fit for purpose governance model that is simple, effective, and supports the achievement of your goals

 

Good governance elements include:

  • Data based decision making
  • Transformation Oversight Office standup
  • Creation, maintenance, and enforcement of policies and procedures
  • Standard work development and confirmation
  • Innovation and improvement reviews
  • Strategic plan review and iteration
  • Issue identification, escalation, and proactive problem solving
  • Team and Leadership development
  • Improvement coaching

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