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corporate-strategy-development-leadership-development-06.pngYour business is looking to drive out significant new value creation over a 3-5+ year horizon. That incorporates short and medium term challenges that require strategic solutions, but the primary task is to determine a high value creating strategy for the foreseeable planning horizon (usually 3-5+ years).

Inevitably, that means changes – and over that time frame, at the pace of advancing technology and globalization to name just two market forces – big changes.

Unlike the usual annual planning meetings, corporate strategy development demands new skills, different tools; and for many, is an experience undertaken only a few times in a working career. Corporate strategy engages with the purpose and evolution of the business and the value the business creates in its industry, for the market and its shareholders.

The process considers relevant global developments and current and emergent competition, expectations of technological advances, the changing dynamics of market power and influence, the comparative capabilities of itself in the context of other organizations. It draws extensively on research and analysis and is open, if the right scenarios emerge, to changing even the business model.  It also considers the expectations and timing of value realization for shareholders, especially for unlisted entities.

what-tmg-facilitators-do-02.pngThe process includes tools that facilitate the development of foresight and the emergence of insight. It is not just an internal process but engages appropriately in open innovation as you flush out thinking well ahead of where you are today, forming a vision of value creation into the future. The process engages in comparative analysis as well as consideration of ‘blue sky’ opportunities.

The task engages all stakeholders in appropriate ways, including the Board, suppliers, customers, employees and other stakeholders, all of whom can help, with the right facilitation, develop clarity around future advances for the organization at the same time as they heighten their engagement in the strategy itself.

what-tmg-facilitators-do-03.pngCorporate strategy development is not your annual planning process. For this reason, many firms seek support that is experienced at a corporate strategy level. A team who will bring access to resources, models, tools, processes and structures that facilitate the process – a process developed in collaboration with you.

T l M l G is experienced in facilitating strategy meetings and conferences as well as then facilitation of strategy development itself. We will help you assemble a process that is right for you. As this web site indicates, we have worked across many industries for over 20 years, building a strategy development methodology that incorporates;
  1. Extensive commercial experience including CEO and Board level
  2. An accumulation of frameworks, models and resources in strategic analysis drawn from global best practice and
  3. An array of facilitation techniques drawing on more than 20 tools that contributes to improving individual and group dynamics, engagement and performance.
what-tmg-facilitators-do-04.pngWe have had both the opportunity and the privilege of central involvement in industry ground breaking work as the case studies herein indicate. Working very closely with you, we work tirelessly to create the circumstances in which, even in the most difficult environments, big advances can be made in every aspect of strategy development.  Our primary aim is to deliver you "the BEST strategy meetings you've ever had" .

Using TMG also frees the CEO or primary leadership to participate without having to also manage all of the above. To begin, here is a strategy checklist you can use to reflect on your current situation.

strategy-meetings-facilitated-04.jpgWell facilitated processes draw from a wide repertoire of structures and techniques to help engage people, stimulate new thinking, foster insight and develop strategic plans as the output. These enable participants to experience the hard data and the views of others in ways that generate new meaning, new ideas and genuine insights. (For the reader who is well versed in facilitation, this can be everything from ‘dialogic trios’ examining key issues through to D/I problem solving via the rule of 3, World Cafe experiences leading to Scenario Planning or using Open Space development of priority interests and so on. For those well versed in strategic analysis, this includes much more than the use of a SWOT, incorporating a wide range of tools relevant to the objectives drawn from a Porter 5 Forces Analysis, BCG Growth Share, Delta, Industry Analysis, Customer value analysis, Foresight development, and too many others to individually list. What process and content enhancing techniques get used will be a joint decision.)

Typical scenarios in which you might value a facilitator are;
  1. You feel you are at a point of market inflection in which competitive dynamics are changing significantly and your business needs to re-invent itself.
  2. As a Board, you are looking for a different person to lead and contain the meeting, freeing all Board members to be active and passionate participants, including the CEO.
  3. A review of your current strategy’s effectiveness with the management team or Board over a half or full day.
  4. Your management team is finding itself recycling existing ideas and you need a catalyst to spark new insights.
  5. Your growth rate is slowing or existing offers fairly mature and you want to tackle change and development in a new way, with some external guidance.
  6. You have an in depth conference involving your entire management team seeking to respond to some disruptive changes.
  7. It may be an open ended review of industry evolution and your role in it as the group seeks alignment on vision, mission and values
  8. You may have different divisions coming together to problem solve or be preparing for a major regional or global conference.
  9. You may be striking strongly held, differing views about the forward strategy and need an external catalyst to help make progress.
what-tmg-facilitators-do-05.pngAnd there may be a host of other reasons to use an experienced and skilled external facilitator. We respect that every client is in a unique and confidential situation.

T l M l G has worked with organizations as small as 40 people with sales of $10M to 14,000 people and billion dollar turnovers. We have worked in more than 20 industries and with a remarkably diverse range of executives in knowledge, experience and style. We have worked in Australia and internationally, at Division, Company, Industry Group and Board level. That much diversity has built our extensive repertoire of resources to help you drive out an outstanding strategic outcome for your organization.

"The BEST strategy meetings you've ever had."


If you would like to discuss a possible engagement, our contact details are below. If you are developing a strategy or looking for business mentoring in the area of strategy development and implementation, then TMG’s strategy facilitators will help you.


 
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Tel 03 9010 9010 (Aust.)   Fax 03 9857 3733 (Aust.)
Web: www.tmg-strategy-facilitation.com.au
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"The strategy you facilitated us to drive out at our conference played a very significant role in the subsequent 3 year success of dramatically growing the business value"
Peter Acheson -
CEO Ambit Recruitment
 

"TMG were instrumental in the creation and roll-out of Optus World, often working well beyond expectations."
Paul O'Sullivan -
Optus Communications
 

"TMG provides companies with strategic development support with a client friendly methodology that focuses on getting the strategy right and making sure implementation is mapped out and deliverable."
Sue MacLeman -
Benitec
 


"TMG has been a committed and productive resource"
Geoff Wallace -
Procter & Gamble
 


"As we roll out ...the work you are doing is invaluable"
Michael Rogers -
Colonial State Bank
 

"... we respect your dedication to working with us relentlessly to achieve our goals"
Laura Taylor -
Pepsico Restaurants International
 


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Intel Semiconductor

 

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