As a result, we sharply reduce the risk of costly misdirection, we nurture consensus among staff and governing board, and we facilitate results that can be truly transformational in their reflection of mission and identity. Some of our clients have hired us to deal with an impending crisis. Others have simply asked us to help them to a new level of success. All have found that our services have brought them significant unanticipated benefits in assuring the primacy and success of their mission. We have not encountered any other consulting firms that can offer the kind of comprehensive, need-responsive program of services that we offer.
Strategic planning is a highly ritualized, and often quite formulaic, field.
While we can guide traditional strategic planning exercises, we rarely do. We usually perform a strategic analysis involving various constituencies of the institution, add whatever facilities analysis, communications review, market research, or other supporting inquiries may be required, and then help to shape a clear, compelling, and achievable implementation plan. Most organizations are either committed to a regular, ongoing multi-year strategic planning cycle, or they have not done much planning at all. For the former category, our work can build on a new or recent internally-produced strategic plan. For the latter we can provide an effective introduction to planning, which can be followed, after three to five years, with an internally-managed strategic planning process.