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“Strategy workshops or away days have become common place, but the findings of a new survey raise questions for UK organisations about how much real value they deliver.” states the CMI!

The vast majority of organisations hold some form of strategic planning process yet less than half find their productivity improves. The report identifies that many organisations fail to prepare or use a robust and rigorous process. Almost two thirds are led by senior managers - and the majority of organisations limit participation to the “top people".

Enabling Development’s view on this is:
a) It seems that most of these organisations have yet to think about what they want to achieve - ie what is success for the workshop and what is a successful strategy that delivers competitive advantage.
b) The phrase of “failing to prepare means preparing to fail” comes to mind - so what are some of the basic public domain methodologies and processes that ensure success - eg the Johnson and Scholes process. Following that - how do organisations tailor the generic processes to their own context?
c) Keeping it in the family - All the cultural and position power influences come into play when senior managers take charge of the workshop. Usually this means compliance to an internally focussed mindset and an absence of any meaningful strategic thinking. However - there is a benefit - we don’t have to change! but what if your competitors change or are moving ahead.
d) How come organisations are spending so much money to get this right? Seems over the top to us.

Enabling Development offers a range of proven processes which take a holistic approach to developing strategy. Underpinned by our business school roles in delivering MBA strategy and writing on the subject our role is as an external, objective facilitator who ensures the organisation asks the high leverage questions and takes a whole systems perspective to developing effective strategy at corporate and divisional levels.

To help get it right why not look at our topline strategy page and contact us to talk about how we can help you get it right first time or to receive our briefing papers “Thinking about strategy“, ” Developing strategy - how we can help you create real value“

Steve posted this on Monday 25th July 2005
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