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What value will Strategy Roundtable™ add to our planning process and to our company/organization? |
There are many ways in which Strategy Roundtable™ can (will?) add value to your strategic planning process and your organization.
First of all, consider the reality that line managers in organizations employing a well tested (worn?) strategic and/or tactical planning process often wonder why they spend any time at all, let alone substantial time, on submitting their goals, objectives and action plans for inclusion in the corporate document. After all, "everyone knows that the only thing that really matters is the budget."
Value proposition: Organizations that tie dollars to strategic performance, both in terms of expenditures and compensation, have a leg up on their competition. Strategy Roundtable™ enables a direct comparison between every proposed project's strategic import and the money required to implement it (and, in release 2.50, its anticipated revenue contribution). Further, Strategy Roundtable™ links all levels of the strategic plan; business definition (vision/mission), strategy, tactics and actions. The software enables effective prioritization of strategies and actions based on an up-to-date assessment of the environmental situation. In this environment, the budget is driven by strategic intent. Is the tail wagging the dog in your company?
Next consider the following statement: "That supposed vision, that's just window dressing to make everyone feel good."
Value proposition: Organizations with a shared vision (i.e. everyone in the organization knows what the vision is and how their job contributes to realizing it) consistently out-perform their peers. Strategy Roundtable™ helps democratize and distribute the planning process. Each manager with project responsibility gets to analyze the expected strategic import of their planned projects. Everyone is clear on where they are headed, the role their contribution plays in getting there and what salient information they have that senior management needs (really needs!) to know that, in the past, they never received.
Do people in your organization think the strategic plan invariably gets tossed out the window at the first sign of the unexpected?
Value proposition: Companies with best of class strategic/tactical planning processes are quickly able to incorporate up-to-date information and adjust their current and planned activities to ensure optimal progress towards their vision. Best of class organizations with a best of class strategic/tactical planning process leverage their core competencies to capitalize on every available opportunity. Strategy Roundtable™ provides the agility needed to respond to unexpected events and adjust appropriately, to take into account all of the intertwined implications. Strategy Roundtable™ makes it possible to respond within the context of the planning process, to do continuous planning and to have a best of class strategic/tactical planning process.
Can your company afford to waste time, energy and resources on unnecessary, duplicate activities?
Does the following sound familiar? "If I knew sooner what they were planning I never would have allowed this to move forward!"
Value proposition: Visibility is key to good decision making. As soon as planned activities are entered into Strategy Roundtable™ they can be made available (with proper security authorization) for review across the organization. There is no reason for well intentioned but unnecessary projects to go forward un-checked.
Effective utilization of scarce resources is essential in today's just-in-time environment. If you have to wait months to get a look at other divisions' plans for the coming year how can you possibly be expected to effectively synchronize your efforts with theirs? Best of class planning processes do not require weeks and months to aggregate the corporate plan. Strategy Roundtable™ enables the plan turn-around time best of class organizations demand - enter it now and it's aggregated - now.
There's more, but we trust you've got the picture. Please contact us to discuss your particular situation and how Strategy Roundtable™ can be employed to add value to your strategic and tactical planning processes and to your organization.
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