Business and Corporate Strategy

Strategy is a described as a "plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim". We see the necessity for strategy across our domains of interest (planning, design and social enterprise). The strategy service we offer involves:

• Understanding broad contexts and problems or issues.
• Distinguishing problems from symptoms.
• Identifying various components of the context (often a complex eco-system).
• Recognising the central role of people in any human eco-system.
• Drawing insights from research and various techniques.
• Providing recommendations and proposals that articulate outcomes which achieve long term and overall intent.

Strategy services can be provided as stand alone services depending on the need. A comprehensive suite of strategy services we offer comprises of:

• Defining for design- includes defining context, problems, issues and challenges.
• Strategic formulation- developing a strategy
• Long term planning- developing long term plans that are adaptable and respond to change
• Workshop design and delivery- innovative workshops that deliver on the intended outcomes
• Strategic facilitation- facilitating discussion on strategic needs for a right focus
• Community and stakeholder engagement- working with and drawing from community and stakeholders to foster ownership of solutions, interventions and outcomes.

We have developed some propriety techniques to give us a robustness and thoroughness in providing strategy services. These are: 4D problem solving; the Latitude Skim and Plunge (LASP) technique; and the visual collective (a visual technique).

Images of some of our projects where we work with people to develop strategy and plans and solve problems.