Strategy

We are Strategy experts.  We start with data and information and we end with actionable direction. We challenge the status quo, focus tactical activities and build an aligned ethos for your teams.

Our strategic clients focus on creating actionable and impactful strategies for their future direction and future growth. Our approach is issue and cause-agnostic because it starts with data.  We engage in a varied of data collection methods from:

• Community Engagement - seeking the voices and lived experience of your stakeholders through surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.

• Ecosystem Mapping - seeking understanding of the intersection of the key organizations in your sector and where capital (human, financial, informational, etc) is flowing or is absent.

• Primary and Secondary Research - understanding what data exists and making sense of the gaps in data and information to make better informed decisions.

• Market Landscape Analysis - understanding different geographic markets, funding opportunities, or targeted approaches to expanding an organizations geographic presence and eminence.

• Data Analysis - understanding current datasets that organizations already have collected and what does that mean for their organization and future.

Regardless of the collection method, we rapidly Diagnose our clients challenges and opportunities that they should consider while planning for the future. Then the magic happens - we work to bring clarity and develop a strategic direction through:

• Strategic Plan Development - Iterative design and creation of a formal strategic plan that will guide an organization, help make decision making easier, and focus the organization’s team around a common platform for the future.

• Agile Strategy Development - Iterative exploration to bring more certainty about their strategic direction through a learning methodology to test and experiment with their strategic direction through an scientific method-inspired approach to exploring.

• Growth Strategy - developing a market based approach on where and how to focus your organization’s growth to new markets, sectors, or opportunities.

• Strategic Retreat Facilitation (Workshop) - 1-3 days of intense, collaborative and engaging conversation to develop values, mission, purpose, strategic direction, Guiding Pillars and Coherent Actions for the next 3-5 years.

We strive to connect the dots and find innovative solutions, continuously learning, adapting, and experimenting to achieve the best outcomes. Our collaboration doesn't end with delivering a strategic plan; we remain partners throughout the implementation process through:

• Strategy Implementation - launching and instilling a strategic ethos for organizations needing the muscle memory and discipline to stay focused on the delivery of its strategy through monthly and quarterly check-ins, facilitations, training, and strategy implementation software.

• Continual Process Improvement - understanding key projects that have potential for gained efficiency, supporting organizations through rapid improvement events, and design thinking facilitation to improve operational process and functions.

• Evaluation - instilling the learning ethos of the strategic planning process into how the organization can continue to learn and improve its programs or business units through aligning key metrics and criteria to the organizations mission and theory of change.

• Program Development - strategy often leads to new ideas for future programs or initiatives. Through a thoughtful and iterative approach organizations can build and design a new program, pilot it and prepare for launch.