Strategic Planning

Every organization is different, but the principles of winning are the same. Each business has its own definition of strategy; a plan to grow based on how, where, and when they compete. It is what sets your business apart from the competition based on the barriers and competencies you have and the market forces you face. The strategic plan of an organization has two stages in its life cycle—a dormant phase and a development phase. Due to time constraints, leadership personalities, and process/communication issues, many businesses spend the majority of their time in the dormant phase.

Applying the Strategy

When a business has a product or service in demand that is worth developing, then there is justification for investment in that company's future. This creates a need for a process that causes an ongoing appraisal of a business’ direction and generates a plan for sustainable and improved profitability growing forward. Use of this process avoids dormancy of a plan, and creates ongoing excitement due to the continued focus and vision of the organization

Defining strategy allows businesses to understand how to serve the right customers in ways that profitably differentiate themselves from the competition. It defines the core competencies and the market forces faced externally, while examining the internal barriers to growth that must be overcome. This is hard work and requires due diligence, patience and determination to develop the future vision and its structure for an entire organization. Business owners often find it difficult to be fully objective; thus causing strategic planning from the inside-out. More and more businesses are looking to employ the part time services of external professional Strategy Consultants that have the ability to work from the outside-in.

How QPS Can Help?

What you need is a credible plan for growth; a strategy that is clear, sound, and compelling, developed by YOUR team. It becomes the roadmap for growth and fundamental change—one that you own, believe in and can get excited about!

• What sets your business apart from competitors?
• What are your core competencies?
• What are the external market forces you face?
• What are the internal barriers to growth within your organization?

Answering each of these questions require carefully-thought out fact-based analyses that require research, knowledge and an understanding of strategy. Our Strategic Development consulting services includes courses in:

• Business Strategy Basics
• Core Analysis; SWOT & MOST Analysis Techniques
• Strategy Team Training
• Market Definition & Competitive Analysis
• Determining Growth Opportunities; Benchmarking & Best Practices
• Strategic Planning Process
• Strategy Development & Implementation

What Strategy Planning Can Do For You

Getting started on developing a business strategy can be overwhelming. One of the key tools used in Strategic Planning and Implementation is the M.O.S.T. Analysis:

• Mission: the direction you intend the business to go
• Objectives: the key goals needed to achieve your mission
• Strategies: the options open to you to achieve your goals
• Tactics: putting the strategies into action

Key to the process is its ability to work top-down AND bottom-up; where the mission drives the objectives, which creates the strategic options, which then force tactical actions that make the strategies work, helping to achieve the objectives set and take the business toward its mission

QPS has many seasoned strategic consultants to choose from, each with industry-specific knowledge who can help you determine external market dynamics and identify the key strategies to help you succeed in your industry. Our Senior Consultant will train your top people how to apply the methodologies of strategic planning and to develop their own plan for growth using proven, world-class best practices. This will promote buy-in, true understanding, and successful implementation at minimal cost to you.

QPS will become your coach; providing the processes needed to ensure your growth. Understand the fundamentals of strategy like few executives ever do and use them to take your business to new heights—tackling the most critical issues facing your organization.
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