Strategic planning
A little planning goes a long way.
A good strategic plan is simple but effective. It provides the organization with clarity on a few critical questions.
Setting strategy doesn’t need to include reams of numbers or even PowerPoint! It simply represents the set of choices the organization has made about HOW it will win in the marketplace.
Strategy sits at the heart of turning your purpose into reality. Somewhere in between your aspirational vision of providing unique value to the world, and the metrics you pore over at year-end, are a series of actions you take. Strategy is about making them consciously, guided by intentional filters about what you are doing, how you are doing it, and what you AREN’T going to do instead.
Are you still winging it?
Maybe it doesn’t seem worth the effort. What does “strategy” mean anyway? Isn’t that the most B-S business word of all? However, without a plan, you might suffer from:
A long list of initiatives that lead to conflicting priorities across the organization
Way too much on everyone’s plate
Lack of alignment between long-term vision and everyday actions
A glossy document with no way of bringing it to life
Your people don’t understand how their work contributes to the big picture
No way to know whether what you’re doing is working
Let us guide your journey
We’ll facilitate the thought process, discussions, and choices to help you:
Articulate your company’s long-term purpose and values
Decide on a set of guiding strategies
Establish your process and cadence for pursuing, governing, and evaluating these strategies
Deploy your strategies into goals at the company, department, and individual level
Additionally, we can provide training and create structure for:
Portfolio governance
Establishing metrics and targets
Project management
Change management
Management systems (e.g. cadence, agenda, and visuals for meetings)
Benefits include…
People who work for you understand the vision and feel connected to it
Work throughout the organization is aligned to pursuing a critical few goals
You have a way to monitor progress and adjust course as necessary
You have a clear sense of what good likes along multiple timeframes
You’ll increase your likelihood of actually achieving your goals
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Case Study: Strategy Planning & Implementation for an Advanced Manufacturing Company
A family-run advanced manufacturer had achieved remarkable success over 30 years through technical excellence and organic growth. But as the company expanded, its founder grew concerned about sustaining momentum with its current management approach. Priorities lived in the CEO’s head, and decisions were often made reactively rather than through coordinated planning.
Growing Wild was brought in to establish a leadership team and create the structure the business needed to scale. Over the course of a full strategic cycle, we facilitated the formation of a seven-person leadership team. Together, we defined the company’s mission, vision, and values; built shared understanding of their competitive landscape through Porter’s Five Forces and SWOT analysis; and clarified strategic choices across target industries, capabilities, pricing, quality, and talent development.
We then translated the strategy into practice: five-year and one-year goals, goal charters, a company-wide roadmap, quarterly business reviews, and a reflection process to strengthen strategy execution in the coming year. Along the way, several “aha” moments surfaced discrepancies in assumptions and brought the team into alignment on what business to pursue.
The impact was significant: the organization now has a unified leadership team that makes decisions together. Priorities are clearer, meetings run with more purpose, and leaders delegate and manage their teams with greater confidence. Marketing, R&D, and operations are now aligned around the same long-term direction, increasing focus. The company has begun documenting critical processes, strengthening both efficiency and resilience. Overall, the business has shifted from a reactive, day-to-day mindset to a more strategic, proactive way of operating—equipped with the clarity and coordination needed to support its next stage of growth.