Strategy Office

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Corporate Strategy Office

A Corporate Strategy Office (CSO) is the nerve center of your organization.

It’s a dedicated team that charts the course for your company’s future, ensuring every department and initiative works in concert to achieve your long-term vision.

Think of it as your in-house think tank, constantly analyzing the market, identifying opportunities, and developing actionable plans to drive sustainable growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Planning: Developing and refining the company’s long-term strategic plan, including setting goals, objectives, and strategies for growth and profitability.
  • Market Analysis: Conducting in-depth market research to identify trends, opportunities, and potential threats.
  • Competitive Intelligence: Monitoring competitors‘ activities and strategies to maintain a competitive edge.
  • Scenario Planning: Developing contingency plans to address potential disruptions and uncertainties.
  • Performance Monitoring: Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress towards strategic goals.

Organizational Interfaces:

  • C-Level Executives: Collaborating closely with the CEO and other senior leaders to align the strategic direction with the overall business vision.
  • Business Units: Working with individual business units to ensure their strategies are aligned with the corporate strategy.
  • Functional Units: Partnering with functional departments (e.g., finance, marketing, HR) to integrate strategic considerations into their operations.
  • Regions: Coordinating with regional teams to adapt the corporate strategy to local market conditions.

Results:

  • Corporate Strategy: A clear and comprehensive corporate strategy that defines the company’s long-term direction.
  • Profitable Growth Strategy: Strategies that drive sustainable and profitable growth.
  • Strategy Communication: Effective communication of the corporate strategy to all stakeholders.
  • Strategy Implementation: Successful implementation of the corporate strategy across the organization.
  • Value Creation: Increased shareholder value and overall business success.

Benefits of a Corporate Strategy Office

Investing in a Corporate Strategy Office offers a range of powerful advantages:

  • Sharper Focus: Gain a dedicated team solely focused on strategic thinking and planning, freeing up other leaders to concentrate on operational excellence.
  • Unified Direction: Ensure every team and department is aligned with your overarching strategic goals, eliminating wasted effort and maximizing impact.
  • Agility and Adaptability: Respond proactively to market shifts and disruptions, turning challenges into opportunities.
  • Strategic Resource Allocation: Invest your resources wisely by prioritizing initiatives with the highest potential for growth and return.
  • Sustainable Growth: Drive better decision-making across the organization, leading to improved performance and sustainable, profitable growth.

Corporate Strategy Office – our Expert Services & Digital Services

We are going to set up your strategy office with you :

Organizational Design and Capability Building

Build the strategy office organization:

  • Aligning the organizational structure and capabilities with the strategy.
  • Developing talent and leadership to support strategy development and strategy execution.
  • Building a culture of strategic thinking and continuous improvement.

Strategy Process

Set up your corporate strategy office based on a professional strategy process

  • Strategy Development & Strategic Planning
    Facilitating the creation of a clear and compelling corporate strategy including analysis, forecasting etc in all major perspectives.
    • Strategy development based on key pipelines (technology, products, segments, orders etc.), options and alternatives
    • Scenario Planning: Anticipating potential future scenarios and developing contingency plans.
    • Strategy Target Setting: Establishing ambitious yet achievable goals and objectives.
    • Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential risks to strategy execution.
    • Profitable Growth Optimization: ensure that value is created sustainingly
  • Strategy Execution
    Developing implementation plans and tracking progress.
    • Performance Management and Monitoring: Measuring and evaluating performance against strategic targets.
    • Project management office (PMO): set-up and run a PMO
  • Strategy Communication
    Adress targets group specific strategy contents to major stakeholder groups
    • Purpose-driven Messaging:
      Corporate strategy communication focuses on clearly articulating the company’s vision, mission, and strategic objectives to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in.
    • Transparent and Consistent Communication:
      Openly share information about the company’s strategic direction, progress, and challenges, while maintaining consistency in messaging across all channels to build trust and credibility.
    • Targeted Stakeholder Engagement:
      Tailor communication to different stakeholder groups (employees, investors, customers, etc.), addressing their specific needs and interests, and fostering two-way dialogue to facilitate understanding and collaboration.
  • Digitalization
    Get rid of time consuming and error prone Powerpoint & Excel strategy work.
    • Digitalize the entire strategy process from development to execution
    • Enhance visibility, reaction time and strategy effectiveness

Strategy Tools

Enable for effective strategy management using state-of-the-art strategy tools

  • Strategic analysis tools: quantitative & qualitative
    • Profitable growth analysis
    • Competitive analysis – industry, product and USPs
    • Benchmarking analysis – against industry leaders and competitors
  • Strategy forecasting tools:  univariate, bivariate & multivariate
  • Strategy scenario tools: simulation, forecasting & analysis
  • Strategy alternatives tools: valuation & selection 
  • Scorecards & OKRs: (balanced) scorecards and execution planning
  • Strategy prescription methods: next best actions plan 24/7 
  • Strategy risk minimization tools
  • Strategy optimum profitable growth tools

Strategy Data

Mirror the strategy process in data from markets to sales, to operations, to corporate finance and from strategy development & planning to strategy implementation & management execution

  • Collection and analysis of internal and external data to inform strategic decisions.
  • Development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track progress.
  • Benchmarking against industry leaders and competitors.

Contact us today to discuss how our strategy consultancy services can help you build a high-performing Corporate Strategy Office.

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Last but not least

People want guidance, not rhetoric;
they need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented.

They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and the authority to act on it.

– Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks