Increasing your organization’s agility, maturity and sustainability is at the core of our work. We’ll evaluate your current position not only to expose vulnerabilities and inefficiencies, but to help you plan forward movement into agile expansion and growth.
Research surveys have revealed that 9 out of 10 executives believe that agility is a core differentiator for growth, critical to a company’s success. Agile firms have been shown to increase revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than less agile companies.
Lack of agility translates into lack of competitive edge, due to an inability to anticipate and respond quickly to basic shifts in the market.
Strengths critical for success include:
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Being an innovation leader in your market niche
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Consistently ensuring a superior customer experience
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Knowing how to turn information into value for the customer
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Creating reliably high-performance products and services
Backing all of this is the customer-centric focus, a core element of market competitiveness. Customer-centricity drives innovation, adds value, and requires flexible decision-making.
Our methods are designed to help us evaluate and assess the maturity levels of your organization’s structure, strategy and business processes fully and quickly, taking as little time as possible, with minimal distraction from the work day.
Surveys of business leaders name the traits and enablers of an agile, high-performance culture as being:
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Rapid decision-making and execution
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Innovation and customer-centric focus, which thrive in a high-performance culture
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Ability to access the right information at the right time
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Accountability
Regarding mid-size companies:
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44% of those surveyed said mid size companies have the edge in terms of agility, over large companies and small firms
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67% said mid size companies “believe they are moderately agile and have the business information available to support their primary job responsibilities”
Trusted Advisors
More than simply acting as consultants in the traditional sense, we are trusted advisors, able to offer seasoned insights and experience. We treat your business challenges as our own.
We’ll assess where your business is now and where it is headed, according to the levels of efficiency, productivity, innovation and alignment it is currently operating on.
Rather than imposing our own plans and ideas, we’ll listen to your vision and goals for where you want your organization to be five and 10 years from now.
We’ll absorb your internal values and ideas, asking informed questions as we gather information about all levels of operation. With an ongoing willingness to collaborate with you, we’ll synthesize your ideas and preferences with the practical steps needed for your organization to fulfill its high-growth goals.
Change Management Teams: Building Momentum
We’ll collaborate with you to build an effective change management team that communicates strategy and changes in ways that inform and inspire your workforce.
We’ll help you create a culture of continuous learning, and give your management the tools needed to implement action plans that align systems and processes with high-growth strategy.
Employee Engagement: The Effects on Financial Results
A 2012 analysis of 50 global companies, the Towers Watson Global Workforce Study, looked at both sustainable engagement data and relevant financial data. It found clear differences at the organizational level in average operating margin as compared to sustainable engagement levels.
Same-year operating margin:
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Companies with low traditional engagement
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Companies with medium traditional engagement
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Companies with high traditional engagement