Strategy & Organizational Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategy is about making the choices about how you are going to differentiate your organization to gain competitive advantage and achieve your goals. INNOVA has special tools that help you to make this difficult but crucial choice. You can’t be all things to all people. You have to choose the battleground where you want to standout and then seek to dominate this territory.
The development and implementation of a Strategic Plan is a critical business activity. A well thought-out, clearly articulated plan provides the roadmap to sustainable success. INNOVA helps organizations by walking them through a very disciplined yet straightforward process in the development of a Strategic Plan. Given clear direction, an organization is enabled to move forward to great results. INNOVA has a proven track record in strategic planning with many satisfied clients.
Organizational Strategy, Design and Effectiveness
Once the Company's corporate strategy is determined, it is necesssary to develop the organizational strategy, design the structure and put in place the necessary methods and processes for achieving effectiveness. It is imporant to have input on this from advisors with significant experience and professional capability in these areas.
Business and Marketing Planning
INNOVA is experienced in helping companies develop business plans that really provide a game plan for how to run the business. This is done using advanced software that presents the plan in an easily understood, professional fashion with tables, charts and full financials. The business plan is equally applicable to running the business effectively as it is a document for banks or gaining new financing.
Sometimes companies need a marketing plan or a sales plan to figure out what they want to accomplish in these areas and how they are going to do it – major programs, detailed executional activities, costs, timing and responsibilities. INNOVA will work with you to develop the insight to what is possible and help you choose the mix of affordable marketing and sales programs that will achieve your objectives.
Board & Senior Team Effectiveness
The roles of the Board and Senior Management are often not clearly defined. Can you answer these questions? Should your Board be Directors or Advisors? What are the functions of the Board of Directors, CEO, COO and CFO? What matters are subject to Board approval and what are the matters the Board must be informed about? By what processes and procedures should the Board function? INNOVA has experience in Boards in public companies, private companies, public sector organizations and not for profit organizations. We can help you make your Board work effectively.
Implementation
Implementation is often overlooked as being important and as a result, it is the cause for failure of many good ideas or plans, even great ones. In fact, great implementation can often overcome plans that aren’t so great. At INNOVA we like to work with our clients on both planning and implementation, so much so that one of our criteria for choosing work is whether the client is really serious about implementation and prepared to lead it himself. He certainly doesn’t have to do all the work but he has to lead it. We can help the leader with his role and help the organization in responding to this leadership effectively. We have sound processes around implementation that increase the chances of success significantly.