How I work

The starting point is always the company’s specific situation.

A collaboration begins by creating a shared understanding of where the company stands, where the most significant challenges lie – and where it makes the most sense to take action.

The first step is often a strategic temperature check.

It provides a quick and structured picture of how clearly and systematically the company works with the two prerequisites for strategy execution: the organisation’s ability to deliver the strategy and management’s ability to lead it.

The purpose is not to make a diagnosis, but to create reflection and highlight where it is relevant to be more curious and dig a little deeper.

The result can be illustrated in the Realisation Power Matrix, which is used as a starting point for the dialogue about where there is the greatest need to strengthen the organisation’s capability, the management system, or both.

The collaboration typically moves through four stages:

1. Temperature check

A quick, focused snapshot of the company’s prerequisites for realizing the strategy – seen through two lenses: the ability to deliver the strategy and the ability to lead it.

2. Diagnosis

A deeper analysis of causes, strengths, gaps, and the conditions that stand in the way of progress.

3. Design

Development of the solutions, structures, and approaches that will move the organization forward.

4. Roadmap

A prioritized plan for what needs to happen, in which sequence, and with what responsibilities.

The four steps form the common framework for the advisory processes. In practice, the process takes different shapes depending on whether the focus is on strengthening the organisation’s ability to implement the strategy or on reinforcing the management system surrounding the execution itself.