To highlight the areas Raven Strategic can influence within your business it's important to first showcase the theories which will be used as a part of any tailored review process. The outcomes from these processes will enable us to deliver the strategic clarity you desire.
Strategic Review 101
Establishing strong foundations to kick off a strategic business review is essential to effectively diagnose any areas of opportunity, focus, or risk that may exist - or may not exist!
The initial internal and external foundation steps we'll take include:
- Review of existing strategy, and business objectives
- Competitor Analysis
- Resource Allocation and strategic alignment
- Past results, current reporting, and future performance forecasts
- Product & Operational sustainability metrics
Our interactions with your most important asset - your people - might include:
- Strategy, knowledge, and culture related interviews/sessions with teams/individuals
- Testing of staff engagement in current strategic direction
- Suitability and skills-based gap-analysis of human resources
The Strategy Life Cycle
Understanding that setting a strategy for a business, project or piece of work isn't a 'tick-the-box' exercise is the first key to moving forward successfully and embracing a relationship with a strategic advisor such as Raven Strategic.
Following on from our foundation setting outlined above - Raven Strategic has established a detailed, and completely customisable, step-by-step strategic review process which is designed to facilitate not only successful strategy creation, adaptation and deployment - but also to implant the cyclical behaviours your business will need to adopt to ensure sustainability and future success can be maintained.
The below tasks are examples of those we regularly undertake during strategic reviews, and they highlight areas in which Raven Strategic will add more value to your business than simply rolling out a standardised process:
- Observation, and/or establishment of your uniquely defining strategic anchors
- Personalised values based strategic awareness
- Sustainability focused data, reporting and success metric observation
- Bespoke strategic road mapping and planning
- Achievable, and consistent action planning and milestone monitoring based on your business goals
- Ongoing communication support focusing on the specific engagement needs of your staff
The Raven Strategic Difference
If we're telling you the steps we'll take - why do you need us now? Or why shouldn't you choose to work with someone else?
The primary reasons we believe you should choose to speak to us today about your business strategy needs are simple:
- Raven Strategic will work with you as a partner - and not see you as an open cheque book. We prefer longer term projects where we work alongside you to ensure we not only identify the areas we can help, but also work on executing them with you.
- Our services are uniquely bespoke and fully tailored to your business after we conduct a thorough investigation of your values, key goals and current position - we will not throw your business into a one-size-fits-all process
- We focus on an immersive approach to strategic research and understanding - we will not tell you how it should be.. until we first understand your position, ask the RIGHT questions and know we're making the best progress for your business
Above all else - what we believe sets Raven Strategic apart is that not only do we seek to help you create a winning strategy - leading to clarity and success - but we also promote the meaningful education and empowerment of your leaders, and staff alike, to be able to sustain the work we do for themselves in future cycles of the strategic process within your business. We want to set you up to succeed today, tomorrow and into the future.
Next Steps
If you believe this process might help you, your business, or a specific project - please don't hesitate to contact us.
We will discuss the specifics of your need - and work out how we can add value to your situation and plot a path forward together.
We offer a FREE consultation and initial strategic health check report to all new contacts - so there really is no reason not to talk to us today!