Strategic Assessment
Undertake a rigorous assessment of your organization to discover root challenges and key opportunities. Create a transformational vision for your organization based on a sound understanding of your business architecture, express and quantify your pain points, and craft initiatives that will bring about your desired future. Clients typically request strategic assessment as a first step in response to ongoing performance challenges that have persisted despite repeated attempts to resolve the challenges.
Benefits of a strategic assessment
A strategic assessment is a great tool to better understand the root challenges you are facing, to make a clear case for change, and to identify potential opportunities and options you should consider. Strategic assessments quantify challenges and opportunities so that you can assess the relative value of potential options, and they provide a means of assessing whether proposed initiatives do in fact resolve root issues.
What happens during a strategic assessment?
Discovery
Quickly gather and review any previous work on the problem so that the assessment benefits from your prior insight.
Data Gathering
Conduct data gathering, analysis, interviews, stakeholder engagement.
Shared Direction
Engage key stakeholders and leaders in a critical review of observations and findings. Create a shared desire for change.
Problem Architecture
Uncover and clarify the who, what, why, when, and how of the problem.
Analysis and Insight
Receive analysis, initial observations,
and draft findings.
Observations and Findings
Receive an observations and findings report that makes the case for change and a proposed approach to solve the problem.