WHAT WE DO STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN CONSULTING SERVICES
Strategy and Organizational Design
Unlocking a compelling view of your organization’s future is one thing. Reaching your goals is another; research shows only 58% of strategy deployment is successful.
That's why we design success into our approach for long-range planning, quarterly business planning, and organizational design. We use a systematic approach to help leaders make decisions about goals and measures, minimizing bias while evaluating opportunities and impacts to the operating model. All while engaging teams to own their decisions and KPIs.
OUR APPROACH
FRAMEWORK
OKR
For long-range, annual, and quarterly planning, use a tried-and-true framework – OKRs: Objectives and Key Results.
It brings focus to what is important and how it will be achieved. It empowers staff to choose how they will contribute to organizational goals, with built-in measurements and accountabilities. And it helps connect strategy to everyday behaviours and actions of frontline staff.
ASSESSING
DECISION
IMPACT
With every strategic decision, we help leaders evaluate tradeoffs, consequences, and impacts to the organization's operating model.
WE LOOK AT
Structure Shape and distribution of power;
Systems and Processes Vertical and horizontal;
Governance Board, management, and rewards;
People Skillsets and capabilities; and
Culture Behavioural norms.
We help leaders design the organization they need to succeed with efficiency and effectiveness.
METHOD
4A
With our 4A Planning Method, Board Members, Executives, Management and Staff are engaged, bought-in, and begin implementation before the ink is dry.
The energy we bring creates space for team members to explore new ideas, challenge one another, and genuinely collaborate.
Let's design success together.
PLANS YOUR PEOPLE DELIVER
Plans are destined for mediocrity when only a handful of leaders champion them, and the rest of the organization lacks understanding, desire, or ability to fulfill it.
That’s why our planning method is designed for the people responsible for implemention. We create buy-in, provide clarity around decisions, push leaders to challenge their thinking and biases, as well as drive thorough communication. The result is a plan with clear outcomes, measures of success, and desire throughout the organization to successfully implement it.
CASE: BUILDING & ACTIVATING A PLAN
Situation
As the President of a North American company stabilized his business, he set out to build a long-term plan, with clear annual focus areas to accelerate growth and value to shareholders.
Assessment
We collaboratively assessed the current state of the business, with an environmental scan and internal stakeholder consultations to uncover opportunities.
Solution
We zoomed out on long-term value-creating opportunities and zoomed-in on details to create a 5-Year Plan with Annual Focus Areas. We redesigned the organizational structure to align with, and effectively deliver, the strategy. Implementation was embedded with change management practices to ensure success.
Perspective
"Christi facilitated the development of our first five-year plan, and corresponding annual approaches and org design. It was an engaging and inclusive approach. And it’s paid off. We have an aggressive, yet realistic plan that will transform our businesses' ability to drive shareholder value. And we have buy-in where it matters most. We couldn’t have done it without Invisible Discipline."
Our Strategy
& Organizational Design
Consulting Services
Long-range strategic planning
Annual and quarterly business unit planning
Vision, Mission, Purpose, Values
Objectives and key results
Organizational design
Operating model impact assessment
Board and executive facilitation
Scenario planning and decision-making
Implementation planning
Communication planning
Change management