Our business is strategy consulting. Helping organizations to plan projects, tasks, products, operations, and services for both the long-term and the short-term. We will do leadership and organizational assessments to help them find the most cost effective methods to improve quality, operations, and customer focus.
Minnesota Consulting Alliance
Our Key Strategic Principles:
- The Theory of Profound Knowledge applies to all organizations.
- You cannot copy; you must understand why something works.
- Organizational strategy is an exercise in creativity; a linear, or a cookbook, approach to strategy will not work.
- You must study the past, or be condemned to repeat it.
- Strategy is a process. You must apply the Plan, Do, Study, and Act (PDSA) Cycle to all planning efforts.
- Organizations are complex and must be adaptive; there is no stability.
- Organizations must think systemically to thrive and compete.
- You can be successful in the short-term doing the wrong things, but in the long-term you will fail.
- An organization is only as good as its leadership and its people.
- Both growth and development are essential for success. You can grow but not develop.
Complementary Assessment and Consultation
Do you know how well your company will be doing five years from now?
Balanced score card (BSC) metrics tell you how well your company is doing now. Our key strategic value metrics will tell you how well your company will be doing in the future. Our strategic values assessment looks at both your BSC metrics and your key strategic value metrics.
The key strategic value measures how your business and industry are derived from our Five “I" Model © for business success. We incorporate additional strategic values essential in your business or industry for success.
The assessment will take less than two hours. Upon completion of the assessment, we will write up a brief one page bulleted report outlining the opportunities and challenges noted by the assessment.