Strategic Planning

Strategies and business plans rely on a very good understanding of the current state of your business and its environment (Now), and your finely honed vision of what your company and the World will look like in the future (Where). Only then can you define “How”.

“Most strategic plans fail to deliver and strategic offsite sessions often become talking shops that don’t create actionable strategies.”

At Synappsys, we live in this space. We are constantly working strategies with a wide range of customers.  Sometimes it is a capture strategy or a major proposal, a political strategy, a strategy for the development of a national capability, a product strategy or a broad business strategy. We are also frequently engaged to help set the stage for innovation and creative business planning that leads to new future business visions.

We have customers in Aerospace and Defence, foreign suppliers, domestic niche technology companies, start-ups, mid cap companies struggling to grow to the next level, financial services firms, politicians, national industry associations and government.

There is a surprising consistency across most business environments when it comes to simulating innovative thinking, breaking down barriers, engaging on honest self-reflection and building new strategies and associated change management programs.

Strategic planning does not create corporate vision and rarely results in true innovation – the distinction is critical. Additionally, you can’t do strategic planning “by the book”, as every situation is unique to some degree.

“The future is not a gift, it is an achievement”.  Robert Kennedy

We maintain what we call the “Strategist’s Cookbook”, which currently runs over 450 pages detailing over 100 separate proven and tested strategy, proposal, change management  and project management tools and methodologies.  We collect best practices and lessons learned here. This is an invaluable resource when we develop unique and custom solutions for our clients.

We coach, facilitate, lead and/or get down and dirty and make it happen – whatever your organization needs.  We can help you take the resulting strategy, and promote organizational alignment and change readiness that produces results.