FAST-CYCLE STRATEGY ENABLES YOU TO RIDE THE WAVES OF CHANGE
When management teams start talking about new strategies, they usually have a document in mind. But that’s probably the last thing they should aim for. What they really need is to frame a new strategic conversation.
My Fast-Cycle Strategy process does just that. It’s potent way to deliver value to your stakeholders. It helps you cut through the mess of everyday work and focus your team on the “big bang” actions that will deliver maximum impact. And it makes specific people responsible for specific actions, with clear delivery deadlines.
If you want to make your next strategic planning session worthwhile, let’s discuss the Fast-Cycle Strategy approach soon. Here are some of its benefits:
1. It’s a systematic and deliberate way to shape your strategic conversation – and to link strategy, leadership, and change management into one seamless process.
2. It’s simple.
3. Unlike a balanced scorecard, it doesn’t impose a “one-size-fits-all” framework on your organisation. You include what matters in your plan, and leave distracting stuff out.
4. It takes you into the future, one step at a time, in a way you can actually manage.
5. With clear deadlines and responsibilities, performance management becomes a way of life rather than another complicated chore.
6. It’s based on a discipline used by the world’s best military units, and best practice from in firms around the world. It’s what smart executives actually do, even though they might not be conscious of it.
7. You start talking consistently about what really matters.
8. Your team understand what you’re talking about, what it means to them … and what they should do “on Monday morning.”