Strategic Visioning Workshop
At Growth Innovation Strategy, we've curated a strategic planning process that's as comprehensive as it is customizable to your specific needs. With an efficient timeline of 4-6 weeks, concluding in a 1-2 day workshop, we ensure your strategic goals are met. The cost is contingent on the analytical complexity involved, and for added convenience, we offer a streamlined, online version of the process.
Understanding the Current Scenario: Our journey begins by delving deep into your present circumstances. Detailed discussions with your team, thorough analysis of your documentation, and environmental scans for competitive risks and market opportunities form the starting point.
Vision and Mission Alignment: We then orchestrate a collaborative process to define a shared 3-5-year vision and mission for your organization. With this common foundation, we aid you in identifying the strategies that will propel your progress.
Identifying Enablers and Blockers: We zero in on the values, behaviors, and risks that could potentially affect your strategic plan. Our objective is to ensure your plan progresses with minimal disruption and maximum impact.
Setting Priorities and Goals: Together, we establish strategic priorities and lay out specific, measurable, and time-bound targets that sync with your vision and mission.
Building the Action Plan: The process culminates with a workshop where we formulate a comprehensive action plan, assigning responsibilities, setting measures for each goal, identifying the support needed, and drafting delivery plans.
Trust Growth Innovation Strategy to navigate you through an efficient strategic planning process, priming your organization for success.
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Scenario Delivery
In a turbulent and uncertain business landscape filled with surprises and sudden shifts, understanding the future has never been more critical. With our comprehensive Scenario Delivery Process, Growth Innovation Strategy empowers you to not just anticipate change but to actively shape it.
Why Choose Scenario Delivery?
In the face of novel challenges and ambiguous circumstances, proactive strategy adaptation is the key to continued success. Our Scenario Delivery Process enables your organization to monitor and interpret early-warning indicators - crucial signals of emerging contextual changes. Beyond immediate strategy identification, our methodology equips your team to navigate an unpredictable world effectively.
Our engagement begins with a deep understanding of your unique organizational context. Working closely with your board and executive team, we identify and monitor relevant early-warning indicators within your business landscape. These indicators serve as a barometer for emerging changes and future surprises.
Define User and Use: We collaborate with you to identify the purpose and target audience for the scenarios, ensuring they serve your strategic objectives effectively.
Scope the Process: We help you decide who to involve in the scenario creation and utilization, incorporating valuable external perspectives to broaden your understanding.
Map the Strategic Environment: We differentiate between your business environment and the broader contextual environment, providing a comprehensive understanding of the factors that impact your organization.
Build the Scenarios: We craft useful, detailed scenarios to compare, connecting the present and future to identify potential developments that demand your attention. The scenarios are designed to be relevant, plausible, and challenging.
Assess the Future Business Environment: We explore the changing landscape, highlighting new actors, role changes, opportunities, and threats in each scenario to enable informed decision-making.
Review Strategy and Generate New Options: We stress-test your current strategy, pinpointing potential weaknesses and generating new strategic options. The scenarios are also used to evaluate new proposals and identify opportunities.
Navigate and React Faster: Armed with the scenarios, your organization becomes more agile, and capable of anticipating and responding to changes with greater speed and confidence.
The Scenario Delivery Process is designed to give you a forward-looking lens, turning uncertainty into a strategic advantage. Your team will be well-equipped to proactively adapt and respond to changes, letting you anticipate and respond to shifts with a more resilient and agile organization, ready to seize opportunities and navigate challenges.
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Strategic Planning Course
Get anytime access to our collection of lessons, frameworks, and practical advice to make your strategic vision a reality. Supplemental videos and templates added regularly.
The GIS Strategic Planning course is a clear, authoritative guide for those new to strategic planning and those who want to refresh their skills. This on-demand, nine-lesson course is ideal for enhancing decision-making and aligning organizational goals.
Ensure confidence in your growth skills for business or non-profits by demystifying strategy tools and frameworks, letting you focus on practical applications.
Learn to evaluate performance, identify risks, and develop strategic options in a clear, practical step-by-step coaching process designed to walk you and your team through development of your own strategy.
New Product or Business Launch
Embrace the thrill of new ventures with Growth Innovation Strategy Group. We navigate you through the complexities of launching a new product or business, ensuring a triumphant market debut and sustainable growth.
Iceberg Questions: We kickstart our journey by addressing your critical questions about overseas launch, market entry or product validation.
Goal Alignment: We collaboratively set clear objectives for your launch, be it enhancing market position, boosting revenue, or heightening profitability.
Customer Exploration: We dive into customer insights, employing research, interviews, and focus groups to understand demand and tailor your offering to match.
Competitor & Industry Scan: We conduct an in-depth competitor and industry analysis, painting a clear picture of the landscape you're stepping into.
Company Assessment: We review your organization's readiness and experience, ensuring an unimpeded entry into the new market or product line while considering potential cannibalization.
Focused Analysis: Our analysis zeroes in on strategic aspects, including market size, unit economics, competition, industry barriers, technological leverage, and internal factors like your people, processes, and finances.
Strategic Report: We deliver a comprehensive report featuring a preferred strategy, viable alternatives, and a practical roadmap for implementation.
Rely on Growth Innovation Strategy Group to turn your launch into a resounding success, accelerating you towards your mission.
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Competitive Positioning Analysis
Choose Growth Innovation Strategy to navigate the competitive landscape with stakeholder surveys, competitive analysis, and strategic positioning. Our process includes a self-assessment and robust report with a unique positioning strategy and roadmap for implementation to accomplish your strategic goals.
Stakeholder Surveys: We initiate by comprehending your organization through stakeholder interviews, uncovering essential engagement drivers and areas for improvement.
Landscape Analysis: We investigate market conditions and identify your main competitors, providing a clear vision of your industry landscape.
Competitive Data Collection: We diligently gather and analyze data on your competitors' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Competitive Positioning Analysis: We carry out a detailed analysis for each competitor, yielding valuable strategic insights.
Self-Assessment: We evaluate your organization's strengths and weaknesses relative to the competition, laying a sturdy foundation for strategy development.
Strategy Development: Leveraging these insights, we design a unique positioning strategy that distinguishes your organization from the competition.
Positioning Report: We produce a robust report containing the preferred strategy, viable alternatives, and a roadmap for implementation, empowering your organization to fulfill its mission.
Let Growth Innovation Strategy help you efficiently navigate the competitive landscape and accomplish your strategic goals.
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Growth Strategy
At Growth Innovation Strategy, we thoughtfully devise growth strategies that are designed to unlock your organization's full potential. Our process is rooted in in-depth inquiry, comprehensive analysis, and a profound understanding of your unique business factors.
Iceberg Questions: We commence our process by posing the challenging, clarifying questions that probe beneath the surface. Our aim is to pinpoint your key objectives and the hurdles you need to surmount to stimulate growth.
Customer, Culture, and Competitor Analysis: We execute a thorough investigation of your customers, your organization, and your competitors, looking for signs of opportunity and potential growth paths that can inform your growth strategy.
Consideration Priorities: We evaluate potential growth areas, considering factors such as available cash and the financial health of your organization, as well as the strategies and successes of your competitors.
External Forces Analysis: We scrutinize external factors, such as supplier relationships, industry trends, competitive movements, and technological advancements, to align your planning with the broader business environment.
Growth Options: Based on the insights we gather, we outline your baseline growth factors and identify potential growth avenues. These may include new product development, market expansion, or strategic partnerships, among others.
Financial Review: We carry out a detailed review of your financials, considering factors such as funding sources and cash flow to ensure that the growth strategy we propose is financially viable and sustainable.
Execution Roadmap: After crafting the growth strategy, we go a step further to provide a practical, detailed roadmap for execution. Together, we determine timelines, set metrics, and articulate clear goals to ensure your growth strategy is implemented smoothly and effectively.
Trust Growth Innovation Strategy to steer your organization towards a future of growth and prosperity with a growth strategy that's uniquely tailored to your organization's needs and market position.
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Market Shift Strategy
At Growth Innovation Strategy, our approach to navigating a market shift is grounded in deep analysis, strategic thinking, and agile adaptation. We offer a robust process to help your organization navigate and thrive amidst shifting market landscapes.
Create Clarity: We begin by addressing your most urgent concerns, whether they're related to the threat of disruption, competitor advancements, or industry consolidation. Our team works to determine the right objective function to help your organization retain or grow its market position amidst shifts.
External Forces Analysis: We conduct a thorough analysis of external forces, including suppliers, industry trends, competitive trends, and technological shifts, to understand the nature and impact of the market shift.
Customer, Company, and Competitor Analysis: We identify signs within your customer base, your organization, and your competitors that indicate a market shift. This could be a technology shift, legislative change, new buyer paradigm, outdated approach, or changes in supplier or buyer power.
Growth Options and Financial Review: We reassess your growth options and conduct a financial review, considering the changing dynamics.
Analysis Priorities: We prioritize analyzing the nature of the shift, its potential impact on your bottom line, the risk of obsolescence, the specific revenue streams affected, and any cost protection levers.
Organization and Strategy: We consider changes your organization can make to contain or mitigate impacts, such as system or people changes. We then strategize on how to leverage the situation for your gain.
Execution Roadmap: After formulating the growth strategy, we go a step further to provide a practical, detailed roadmap for execution. Together, we determine timelines, set metrics, and articulate clear goals to ensure your growth strategy is implemented smoothly and effectively.
With Growth Innovation Strategy as your partner, navigate the volatile waves of market shifts with confidence and agility. Our strategic insights and practical roadmaps empower your organization to turn challenges into opportunities, driving growth and success even amidst the most demanding market conditions.
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Inorganic Growth Strategy
At Growth Innovation Strategy Group, we specialize in empowering smaller Private Equity firms or mid-cap companies to expand through mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships. We provide expert guidance and an external viewpoint to ensure your strategic moves are well-executed, beneficial, and seamless.
Iceberg Questions: We initiate by addressing your pressing concerns related to understanding merger implications, assessing acquisition prospects, or evaluating the potential of a joint venture.
Goal Alignment: We collaborate to define the objective of your strategic move, focusing on strengthening your market position.
Customer Insights: We examine customer indicators such as shifts to less profitable sectors or opportunities for rapid market entry to inform strategic direction.
Company Assessment: We evaluate internal factors related to mergers, acquisitions, or partnerships, ensuring harmony across various aspects of your organization.
Competitor & Industry Scan: We study external factors like hostile takeovers and common practices of M&A, joint ventures, or partnerships in your industry, providing a holistic view of the landscape.
Focused Analysis: We undertake a comprehensive analysis of external forces, operations, people, and finance, considering economic conditions, competitor responses, customer expectations, post-merger integration, funding options, and the realism of ROI expectations.
Strategic Report: Finally, we deliver an insightful report featuring a preferred strategy, viable alternatives, and a detailed roadmap for execution.
Trust Growth Innovation Strategy Group to navigate your path towards prosperous inorganic growth. Our strategic insights and practical guidance will empower your organization to thrive.
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