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Common Strategic Management Issues Companies Experience

How much time, energy and additional capital are you wasting?

Gryphon Systems’ solutions are specifically designed to overcome the following costly problems frequently experienced around organizational and information technology strategic management. In order to assist you in the most accurate and efficient manner, we ask that you take a moment to review the list below and identify the areas that resonate for you and your organization.

Please check (select with your mouse) only the boxes which apply to your organization and then submit the form.

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Unclear priorities among competing initiatives resulting in wasted resources/loss of focus.
Failure to effectively assess the impact of external changes on existing plans resulting in back end expenses.
Difficulty verifying strategic alignment across business units resulting in duplication of effort.
Difficulty determining if all projects crucial to meeting objective(s) are on track resulting in wasted time.
Thrashing of resources among projects due to ever changing priority lists resulting in lost energy, time and money.
Everyone has their own interpretation of key words such as “strategy”, “goal”, “objective”, “initiative” resulting in miscommunication and management inefficiency.
We’ve wasted time, capital and effort on projects lacking a clear strategic purpose.
Failure to prioritize multiple “top” priority projects in areas such as IT and Marketing resulting in key business needs not being addressed.
After the strategic plan is published, strategy amnesia sets in resulting in increasing drift from the established strategic direction.
One or more puzzle pieces go missing when the strategic plan is developed resulting in unanticipated and avoidable costs.
We fund projects mostly based on who the sponsors are resulting in the funding of strategically less important projects.
Overall, are you experiencing?
Difficulty establishing clear priorities and making sure that what is important is what gets done.
An inability to keep focus on what’s truly important as crises after crises is dealt with.
Difficulty keeping the strategy alive and in front of management and staff on a day-to-day basis.
Trouble keeping track of exactly what’s been done, what has yet to be done, what is going to get done and what isn't going to get done.
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We will review the strategic management issues you identified and contact you to first gain an understanding of how these issues are affecting you and your company. We can then together determine if there is a basis for working with you to develop strategies to drastically reduce the wasted time, energy and manpower they cause.

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