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Leadership Alignment

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Why should you care

Signs of lack of commitment, lack of collaboration and lack of active participation generate loss of the century's main resource: time. And all other assets and resources end up being negatively affected by this reality.

Promoting strategic alignment challenges senior leadership to understand how to act so that the behavior of work teams, whose ambitions and dreams need to be aligned with those of the company, does not generate negligence or frustration in any of the parties.

This means that points of attention such as: diagnosis, understanding of the change process, concepts, tools to be used, type of access and resources need to be carefully evaluated. That is, align senior management and the project team before definitively implementing strategic planning.

55%

(%) of planning projects fail due to lack of communication, alignment of the leadership team, lack of interest or involvement.

What is the importance, before a project that intends to transform the organization, of leveling information, knowledge and tools related to the central theme with the project team?

In most companies, hundreds of transformation projects are underway: strategic planning, continuous operational improvement, plant expansions, maintenance stops, worker training, resizing, outsourcing, quality of life, among others.

Properly promoting strategic alignment improves the impact of the relationship between integration and complementarity of the determining elements in terms of the effectiveness of the organization's decision system, facilitating the choices of the leaders and initiatives of the project team to receive support from the business areas and that eventual changes of course are better understood.

How it works

Essential for the projected future of the company to become a sustainable reality, strategic alignment is characterized by the organization's focus on strategy in a dynamic, committed and managed manner.

During 2 (two) days, in a simulated strategic and operational management (gamified) environment, the project leadership team will review and align fundamental concepts and tools on:

Business strategy;
Business Model;
Strategic Core (Vision, Mission, Values)
Construction of Scenarios;
SWOT matrix and evaluation of the internal and external environment: Strengths and Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities;
Formulation of short and medium term objectives and goals in relation to the market, customers, processes, people and results;
Definition of performance indicators for the business;

When debating the themes, the participants will evaluate the results of the simulation of their strategy comparing to the Diagnosis, increasing the convergence about the choices and increasing the integration and effectiveness in the execution of the strategic planning.

Core Strategy (BVMV)

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Why should you care?

Global organizations are reshaping themselves to operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous market, which requires fast-paced transformation.

One of the ways to overcome the challenges of this new market is to have a clear and sharp view of the environment and possible configurations for the future.

In this sense, we created an integrated and creative approach to the challenge of involving people and organizations around the core business philosophy, accelerating collaboration, co-creation, systemic thinking, innovation and cultural change.

Through a collaborative process, we facilitate the design of the vision, mission and beliefs that will nourish the annual strategic planning, the definition of priorities, the launch of strategic initiatives and much more.

65%

(%) of planning projects fail due to the lack of a clear vision of the future.

How this step in our strategic planning and management methodology can help you

“A vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision is just a pass of time. But a vision with action can change the world. ” Do you agree with the futurist Joel Backer?

Building and designing the business concept, its vision of the future, mission and set of values and principles is a fundamental activity, and it is not as simple as it seems.

Our methodology covers a set of ideas and disciplines, applying systemic thinking and learning, based on Arthur M. Young's Theory of Process for organizations, senior leaders and work teams.

Based on our experience in different segments and international organizations and partnerships, we have created and adopted many tools and structures that generate results above the expectations of our customers.

How it works

Through authoring tools and methodologies, we will guide you and your team through a series of activities to (re) define the strategic core of your company.

During this stage, workshops will be organized with the leadership teams, using modern tools to build and design an innovative process, covering the past, the present and the future of your organization, facilitating:

Analysis of the organization's history and achievements;
The definition of the business;
The projection of the best vision of the future;
The definition of the organizational mission;
The evaluation of the guiding beliefs (values and principles);

Scenarios

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Why should you care

Global organizations are reshaping themselves to operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous market, which requires transformation at an accelerated pace.

The ability to build correct scenarios to guide the decision-making process of companies is essential for the continuity and prosperity of businesses.

A recent OECD study indicates that there are four major threats to the world economy in the years to come: the possibility of new financial crises, social unrest, cyber attacks and pandemics. In addition, there are challenges related to environmental sustainability and new disruptive technologies, which can profoundly alter the rules of the game in different market segments.

Companies that have the best radar and know how to make the best decisions are the ones that will profit the most from the opportunities that are opening up.

40%

(%) of planning projects fail due to prospecting for scenarios and weak environment analysis.

How this stage of our strategic planning and management methodology can support you

Collecting, analyzing and acting against mapped scenarios is no longer an ad hoc process, carried out from time to time.

We built an integrated and creative approach to the challenge of involving people and organizations around the environment of your business and stakeholders, accelerating collaboration, co-creation, systemic and outside in thinking and innovation.

Through a collaborative process, we will facilitate the design of scenarios that will nourish the annual strategic planning, the definition of priorities, the launching of strategic initiatives and much more.

Based on our experience in different segments and organizations, we develop international partnerships and create many tools and frameworks that have guided results above expectations for our customers.

How it works

In this stage of the project, our mission is to support the client organization in the construction of medium and long-term socio-cultural, economic, political and technological scenarios and to identify its internal capabilities (RBV), facilitating the management of its strengths and weaknesses.

Through interviews with experts in the segment and the leaders, the client organization can, based on the scenarios (external environment) and capacities (internal environment), dedicate itself to planning actions to face possible future situations that may affect its business.

We consider this essential for the elaboration of the SWOT Matrix and the choice of strategic positioning that will make possible the search for competitive advantages and the adoption of new strategic positions.

Strategic Guidelines and Objectives

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Why should you care

In increasingly service-based economies, everyone competes through relationship strategies and employees need to keep in mind how they contribute to the overall goals of the organization.

Clarity about the present and the desired future brings more security to everyone in a company. It generates criteria to direct changes, routine, cost level, cost cuts, professional profile, communication with the market, need for improvement solutions, in short, a series of initiatives to solve and circumvent priority problems and increase productivity.

When people don't understand why they are going to work every day, you have a deadly symptom, which has no treatment. The definition of guidelines, objectives and change projects for the better is able to create purpose and reactivate the motivation to make the company continue to thrive.

5%

(%) of the companies' workforce claims to understand the business strategy.

How this stage of our strategic planning and management methodology can support you

Strategic maps are a visual representation of an institution's strategic objectives and its crucial relationships, in addition to allowing the organization to describe and illustrate, in clear and general language, its objectives and the connections that are the foundation of strategic direction.

Through a collaborative process, we will facilitate the design and definition of short, medium and long term guidelines that will nourish the annual strategic planning, the definition of priorities, the launching of strategic initiatives, the monitoring indicators and much more.

Based on our experience in different segments and organizations, we create tools and frameworks that have guided results above expectations for our customers.

Experience in the adoption of the main strategic planning and management methodologies:

BSC | Balanced Scorecard
Unfold your strategic maps up to the operational level, allowing you to follow the progress of objectives, projects, indicators and action plans.

Hoshin Kanri
Ensure the alignment of all levels of the company, unfolding the guidelines at each level of the organization chart and monitor the execution of the PDCA of each employee involved with the business strategy.

OKR | Objectives Key Results
Define your objectives and the list of key results to achieve them and monitor, in real time, how each indicator is contributing to performance, and you can also monitor the projects and actions being carried out by your team.

VBM | Value Based Management
Use value-based performance metrics to make better decisions. Manage the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow indicators to balance the long and short term perspectives.

How it works

Through meetings and workshops we support you and your team in the definition of visual maps of the strategy, to represent the guidelines, objectives, projects, initiatives and indicators necessary to achieve the vision of the future, through your mission and values.

We adopt a technology that allows the management and monitoring of strategic planning | GE 360º | where you will have access to strategic maps, scorecards, indicator panels, action plans, project management, follow-up meetings, cash management, etc.).

Our methodology for implementing the strategic planning and management processes allows you to describe and illustrate, in simple, clear and general language, your objectives and the connections between them, which are the foundation of strategic direction.

Applied to clients with national and international operations, we create a simple, practical, flexible and adaptable form so that each project has the "face" of each client.

MEET GE 360º

Action Plan Unfolding

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Why should you care

Ensuring the engagement of employees and, consequently, the realization of the vision is the role of unfolding the strategy in action plans.

The need for this process is given the extreme importance of team engagement and understanding for the effectiveness of planning and building the company's future.

In many cases, we realize that top management understands that planning is something that goes beyond the day-to-day procedures and internal processes.

However, the reality is just the opposite. The vision of the future and the business mission only exist or come to exist through the daily performance of everyone on the team.

It is necessary to make everyone see and act according to the perspective of belonging and influence on the desired corporate results.

85%

(%) of strategic planning and management projects fail to turn into drawer reports, without the proper deployment and involvement of people down to the operational level.

How this stage of our strategic planning and management methodology can support you

What is the value of a practice that helps your team to put the strategy into action, enabling the planning of goals and action plans, monitoring the execution and communicating the results at all organizational levels?

Through a collaborative process, we will facilitate the construction of action plans that will be the object of execution of the annual strategic planning, allowing for clarity, dynamism and metrics to follow the evolution of change in each area, department or sector and evaluate the productivity of teams and people.

Based on our experience in different segments and organizations, we created a tool that allows us to monitor each action in real time, allowing strategic management to be integrated with variable remuneration, which have generated results above expectations for our clients.

How it works

It is the time to start actions, to integrate people and processes and to monitor the evolution of each metric defined to monitor the result indicators.

It is also an important space for reflection and debate, conversation, exchange of ideas, follow-up of action plans and evaluation of the results achieved or not achieved in the period. It is essential to narrow the gap between leaders and subordinates.

We will make available in a standardized, accessible and online way, a multi-user environment for the control and monitoring of the execution of all projects and action plans of your business.

Its use guarantees the critical success factors for strategic management:

Clarity in communicating the strategy;
Establishment of a strategic management process;
Formation of a consistent organizational culture;
Constant monitoring and reassessment of the strategy, with a complete dashboard for senior management to monitor global business indicators online;
The identification and deployment of 5W2H of the fundamental stages of each initiative;
Follow-up of online initiatives;
The control of those involved and responsible for each result indicator;
Cyclic critical analysis;

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