Leverage a framework, deliver instant wins and ensure success.
Integrated strategic business planning has come a long way from its origins as a largely intellectual exercise for the elites of corporate culture. Gone are the days when a small group of executive officers would meet for a week in private and present a plan full of business philosophies without consideration of the day-to-day operations of the organization.
Today, integrated business planning has become the primary vehicle, built upon leading practices and technology, for achieving critical objectives and goals. It is a needed capability to provide the right information, to the right people at the right time to drive right actions and right decisions that help to deliver unique and sustainable competitive positions. Management must now build plans that incorporate the operational realities of their organization - across all businesses, customers and support areas. Most importantly, management identifies and effectively communicates to their employees the accountability of each individual in the delivery of the plan’s objectives and goals. Productive strategic plans are comprised of key metrics that are monitored daily, weekly and/or quarterly. Furthermore, successful strategic plans not only align strategies and measures across the organization, but they create transparency and transform the company into a learning organization with strategic thinking occurring on a daily basis.
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“The combination of MarketSphere’s strategic thinking and framework helped us put our key objectives in a simple, concise and actionable document. We benefited from your help with cascading the business unit strategy to all functional levels of the organization. (This) ensured alignment and transparency across all functions and levels at Applebee’s.”
– President & CEO, DineEquity
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MarketSphere’s resources have business and strategic planning expertise that provides business diagnosis, strategic direction and operating strategy advice through the utilization of multiple business planning frameworks. Whether they are leveraging a proven Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures (OGSM) framework or the often-used Balanced Scorecard framework, these individuals are practitioners who have ‘been there and done that.’ They understand the importance of a phased approach that delivers quick wins to create employee buy-in. Most importantly, they possess best practice knowledge to ensure that all business units and support areas are in alignment and objectives, goals, strategies and measures are executable through a solid, flexible operating plan.
MarketSphere provides strategy focused Integrated Business Planning services across all industries oftentimes in conjunction with merger and acquisition-related activities.
