Strategic Thinking is defining clear goals and identifying of all the issues that must be managed to successfully implement future strategy.

This is what I do:

My approach to Strategic Thinking is to facilitate a short process during which a management team can quickly identify and discuss the important issues facing the business and make the appropriate decisions to define and implement strategy. I don’t tell management how to run their business I simply assist them to formulate strategy on their own behalf.

I help our clients to articulate a distinctive business strategy that their competitors will find difficult to copy. I also help them to identify the critical issues that must be managed in order to quickly and successfully communicate and implement strategy.

My service is to provide a clear framework and meeting structure based on a logical and systematic thinking process using current and accepted business management practice.

A Chief Executive once said to me:

 "I consider that my job is to have a clear strategy and to make sure that everyone understands what it is. Your process has helped me achieve this aim"

Why should you use this process?

Strategy will succeed when it is clear and unambiguous to those people expected to complete the implementation. A strategy that remains locked away in the heads of a few key people will prove extremely difficult to deploy. Therefore, effective communication of strategy is critical to success.

Utilising my Strategic Thinking Process to discuss the options and agree strategy will enable your top management team to clearly understand and thereby give commitment to future strategic direction. Without this the organisation will lack focus and waste resources. It will meander from one issue to the next and lose momentum resulting in a lack of growth and reduced profitability.

Growth is a “given” so the question is “what will it take to grow your business faster than your competitors?” The answer is to invest in Strategic Thinking and together with your top management team, use this process to help you outthink your competitors.

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And this is what you will get by investing in the process:

• As CEO you can exploit ownership of a clearly defined and distinctive strategy that can be easily communicated to others and has the "buy in" from those required for the implementation

• You will get hard copy output to enable the business objectives to be quickly aligned with strategy so commencement of the implementation can progress without delay

• You will have a strategy review process that can be repeated by management ad infinitum which over time will create a culture of constantly thinking and acting strategically

• You will have identified the critical issues and initiatives that must be managed to successfully implement strategy

• You will have created a clear understanding for everyone of the future scope for products, services, customers and markets

• You will have a strategic decision making filter to synchronise resources and discriminate between opportunities

• You will have defined the initiatives needed for the development of operational objectives which will exploit the differentiators necessary to set you apart from the competition

Overall, you will achieve faster growth and improved profitability

As an introduction to my thinking processes there are several publications available directly from me. I have personally written these Handbooks and produced the DVD presentation of our Strategic Thinking Process. I wrote the Handbooks in a summary format so that each can easily be read in under an hour. Good for airport lounges! I hope that you will find these to be thought provoking.

Roger Handley, Strategy Facilitator.

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• 3 Books and a presentation DVD available from this website

• A synopsis of the Strategic Thinking Process and concepts

• Client comments and references

• Adobe PDF information downloads

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