Management Consulting
Our consulting services will raise the performance of your organisation through better practice in:
- Strategic Planning
- Performance Measurement
- Implementing Strategy
- Managing Diversification
We cover the needs of organisations in all sectors - private, public and not-for-profit.
Contact Strategic Factors for details in addition to those below.
Strategic Planning
Management Teams and Boards
Assisting You to Develop Your Strategic Plan. We're specialists in this area and we ensure that ownership of all output remains with your management team or board. In facilitating your strategic planning we provide you with:
- Our unique Strategic Planning Template, in software and hardcopy.
- Our throughly tested Strategic Planning Manual.
- A proven strategic planning framework - the Strategic Factor System
- A carefully designed series of steps for your team to follow.
- Initial instruction on the methods employed.
- A follow-up service during the implementation of your plan.
Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Sure-Fire Steps Program. This program is run for business teams with several non-competing businesses in the room at the same time. During the workshop your team completes our proven Strategic Plan Template for its business. This workshop also comes with its own manual.
Performance Measurement
Management Teams and Boards
Assisting You to Develop a Scoredcard of Key Performance Indicators. We're specialists in this area and we ensure that ownership of all output remains with your management team or board. We provide:
- A proven performance measurement framework - the Strategic Factor System.
- A carefully designed series of steps for your team to follow.
- Initial instruction on the methods employed.
- Our throughly tested Performance Measurement Manual.
- Our unique Strategy Scorecard software for use in all workshops.
- A follow-up service during the implementation of your scorecard.
Implementing Strategy
Louis Gerstner, who was CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002 during its major and life-saving turnaround, is quite definite: "Execution is really the critical part of successful strategy... All of the great companies in the world out-execute their competitors day in and day out in the marketplace." We see many unimplemented strategic plans in organisations.
Management Teams and Boards
Assisting You to Implement Your Strategic Plan Fully and Effectively. This involves reviewing the effectiveness of your current implementation practices and scoring your implementation success. We then assist your management team to implement the proven practices of successful implementers by leading them through a carefully designed series of reviews. We also provide a follow-up service during your roll-out phase.
Managing Diversification
Diversification, far from being the exception which people often think it is, is commonplace in business and the norm in the public and not-for-profit sectors. Managing diversification brings together our unique set of skills in strategic planning and performance measurement with our special knowledge of how successful diversifiers operate.
Management Teams and Boards
Assisting You to Manage Your Diverse Operations Effectively. We show you how to implement the proven practices of successful diversifiers. We achieve this by leading your management team and your board, if necessary, through a carefully designed series of steps that shows how to make diversification a winner for your organisation. We also provide a follow-up service during the implementation phase.