Strategic and Business Planning

Taking the Hassle out of Strategic and Business Planning for Your Division or Section

An effective, aligned plan that is well understood by your key staff and engenders commitment is not easy to achieve, but is worth gold.

Planning workshops can be very effective and other times a waste of time.

Effectiveness is greatly influenced by the knowledge of your business, quality of the process, preparation and facilitation.

To ensure the development of an appropriate organisational strategy which delivers a competitive advantage, EMD has developed one and two-day business-planning workshops to meet your requirements.

We base our workshops on the work of Michael Porter as well as on W. Chan Kim's at Harvard Business School. Porter's work focuses on competitive analysis whilst Kim's work is in creating uncontestable market spaces (Blue Ocean Strategy).

The workshops utilising the models developed at Harvard uses Scenario Analysis, Competitive Analysis and Games Theory to develop a plan. EMD's competitive advantage is to make these processes simple and accessible to all strata of the workforce.

Our ability to engage people and our focus on preparation is a formula for success. Experience has taught us lots of useful lessons to ensure you get the best out of your planning process.

Our approach consists of:

	Preparation Phase – making sure everyone is prepared
	Extensive market and organisational analysis to inform the business planning process; Identification of which internal and or external customers are vital to our planning; Engagement of staff to generate enthusiasm and buy in; and Development of agenda.
	Facilitation of the workshop to ensure you get the agreed outcomes.
	Evaluation of the business planning process with suggested improvements.

Our process is always modified to the requirements of our clients. This modification takes account of existing business plans, organisational performance measures, competitor market analysis, Government and stakeholder demands and the capability of the organistaion to utilise different types of planning processes.

Value is generated by:

	Alignment throughout the organisation.
	Comprehensive analysis and understanding of market, regulatory and other pressures on the business;
	Staff ownership of the plan;
	Plain English plan that all staff can comprehend;
	Engagement of key staff and stakeholders across the organisation including customers;
	Improved team work amongst senior management;
	Linking of business plan to organisational measures - KPIs.

What next?

If you are interested in more information please give us a call on +61 2 8399 0011 and ask to speak to one of our consultants. 

Alternatively e-mail us at info@emdgroup.com.au or use the form on our Contact Us page.

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