STRATEGIC INNOVATION CONSULTATIONS
Will doing more of what's worked in the past produce the future you desire?
If your competition got word of your strategy, would they be blown away by the originality of your foresight, or yawn at the same old static viewpoint?
Do you often find yourself wondering, "How can we get more of our people to think out-of-the-box"?
Are you ready to raise the bar from satisfaction with being profitable to aspiring to achieve a "sustainable competitive advantage"?
When Art Turock delivers a keynote speech, there is a consistent realization that the client organization may need to rethink its current strategic planning process. As business leaders face the mammoth forces of change such as consolidation, deregulation, E-business, globalization, and disruptive technologies, one point becomes obvious linear strategies don't work in non-linear times.
Art is committed to helping progressive companies make the shift from traditional, linear strategic planning to a process thought leaders now call "strategic innovation." Strategic innovation involves designing a competitively advantageous marketplace position three to five years into the future. Sustainable advantage comes from innovations that produce enormous business opportunities either by changing the established rules of competition or focusing on the penetration of new, minimally contested markets.
Strategic innovation consultations are designed for companies that are willing to:
a) rethink and dramatically alter their current strategic position
b) revise their current strategy development process from an annual retreat for senior management
c) transform the planning process, so that strategic thinking becomes an ongoing conversation that involves the entire organization in specific roles and at specific points in the process.
If the current mindset of your organization assumes that your future can be built on improving the strategy that worked in the past, a strategic innovation consultation is not recommended for your company.
PROMISED RESULTS
After a strategic innovation consultation, your senior management team will have the ability to make well-considered choices about the following elements of strategic positioning:
Definition of "what business are we in"?
Products and services
Competition
Methods of going to market
Core competencies
Source of strategic advantage
OPTIONS FOR OUR WORKING TOGETHER
Rethinking your entire strategy process. A year-long involvement with periodic meetings, E-mails, phone-coaching conversations, and workshops to "democratize" the planning process. Democratizing means creating a strategic planning process that capitalizes on the diverse viewpoints of an organization's talent, by incorporating the eyeball-to-eyeball customer intimacy of the front line and the big picture view of the business from 30,000 feet held by senior management.
Stimulating diverse thinking at the beginning of a strategic planning retreat. Most senior management teams know each other so well they can almost deliver each other's lines in discussions of key issues hardly the conditions for conceiving original strategy. The strategic innovation consultation includes innovative thinking exercises that challenge the team to look at their industry and business from vantage points they've probably never taken before. As a result, the chances are increased for revealing never-before-imagined business opportunities. The final strategic plans agreed upon days later are profoundly effected.
Retreat facilitation.
Art Turock brings the valuable outside perspective of an expert on strategic innovation plus facilitation skills for orchestrating the best quality thinking from retreat attendees. We do not use a cooker cutter approach to retreats but customize based on the desired magnitude of innovation.
Co-creating collaborative plans with key strategic partners.
By arranging a joint meeting with members of your supply channel who wish to serve a common market or targeted customer base, you will experience the value of co-creating an original strategic foresight and coordinating plans for the future.
Assessing a team's natural thinking styles.
Using Effective Intelligence Assessment Tools, each individual and the team as a whole can receive a profile that describes preferred thinking styles. This assessment produces powerful insights, which highlights the natural thinking styles of the team and point out gaps where corrective efforts can be orchestrated.
Electronic strategic plans that communicate how the plan was conceived and the key elements of a strategic position and the overall business model. Interconnections between plan elements are communicated in a way that is difficult on paper documents. Because this Power Point version is designed for clear communication and to create a compelling story, it is ideal for sharing with front line staff, trading partners, and potential investors.
YOUR ACTION STEP:
Contact Art (art@turock.com) with your business phone number along with good times to reach you so the two of you can discuss the quality of strategic thinking in your organization and how a strategic innovation consultation might contribute to achieving your business vision.
