Strategic Planning Simulations

Strategic Planning Simulations

Increase your organization’s ability to achieve results by involving key managers in the strategic planning process

Through our customization process, we create a tool based on your company's actual financial plans. We then engage management teams in a facilitated process to gain better understanding into their company's profitability drivers and identification of key activities that will ensure fulfillment of budgets or plans. The outputs are concrete action plans with a time plan, follow-up and ROI goals.

Here are some questions to ask to determine if this type of facilitated process can add value to your organization:

  • How do you ensure that your subordinates have realistic budgets/plans that are well thought out and thoroughly analyzed?
  • How will you identify and implement the actions needed to achieve your goals and objectives?
  • When you have your annual senior managers meeting, how do you ensure that managers are aligned around your growth objectives?
  • How would your success rate improve if all key people were actively engaged in achieving your goals?
When to use this process:
  • During the budget process to ensure that you are formulating realistic plans
  • At your Leadership & Management Conferences where you want to align your team around a few important business scenarios
  • As follow-on to the learning from a Business Acumen Seminar to create a deep dive into your business strategy and ensure that your managers are implementing their learning via concrete actions plans
How it works
  • 1-2 day workshop
  • 3-9 teams are from a business unit, product area team, or market team
  • Teams work independently with their actual numbers
  • Comparison of results reported and conclusions drawn
  • Competitive dynamic via performance ranking based on the following: results, quality of action plans, and presentation
  • Management forms a “jury” that evaluates team performance