Consulting Services

We offer clients a number of services to help improve their organizational performance. These include...

Foresight: Environmental scanning, trend analysis and scenario development to identify emerging threats and opportunities, and better understand their implications for the current business model.

Strategy: Definition of a competitive strategy and business model that takes advantage of new opportunities to create value for stakeholders.

Innovation: Enhancement of the capacity to innovate, increasing the ability to counter threats and take advantage of emerging opportunities. Rapid adaptation is a major competitive advantage in a time of accelerating change.

Transformation: Development of the capabilities needed to execute the chosen strategy and the business model.

Facilitation

We work with organizations to help enhance collaboration in each of these areas, facilitating dialogue among diverse stakeholders to:

• bridge differences and increase understanding;
• share information;
• survey opinions;
• brainstorm; and
• create a shared vision.

In strategic foresight, we can bring experts into the conversation to help identify emerging trends, threats and opportunities.

These dialogues may be a standalone exercise or part of a larger initiative. We facilitate small teams or larger groups, located locally or geographically dispersed, meeting face-to-face or online. Dialogues can engage both internal stakeholders from an organization, and external stakeholders from its surrounding ecosystem.

We complement the use of traditional facilitation techniques with internet-based tools, where appropriate, including:

• web conferencing;
• teleconferencing;
• session recording and audio streaming;
• online surveys;
• wikis;
• weblogs; and
• collaborative online workspaces.

The resulting conversation drives collaboration and encourages creativity.