Strategy Alignment

Aligning an organization on a shared set of strategic priorities, allowing for a more effective allocation of resources, and enabling the team to accomplish objectives and create value.

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Organizations perform when teams work, and teams can’t work without strategy alignment

Strategic complexity and ambiguity get in the way of organizational momentum and adaptability. Many teams struggle to balance short-term pressures with long-term strategic objectives—how organizations define success. To be successful in today’s complex and unpredictable marketplace, leaders must effectively clarify their vision, clearly define what success looks like, determine how they will measure and achieve success, prioritize their limited resources, and align their team around their plan.

…this organization was stuck in a rhythm of doing things in a way that we thought worked, when in reality,…we barely had a heartbeat… [MG] came in and revived us, [they] woke us up and made us way better than we’ve ever been.”

VP, UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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Only 37% of people agree that teams within their organization share the same perspective on how to succeed in their industry

Design

Our solutions are tailored for each client to ensure that the senior leadership team is aligned on a common set of actionable strategies to cascade these and then create lower-level team goals and initiatives. Bottom-up refinement and identification of horizontal and vertical dependencies are integral to our approach.

Implement

Our approach to execution features regular progress reviews for an organization’s ongoing initiatives on a rolling six-quarter cadence, allowing clients to assess changes in the internal and external operating environment and adapt the enterprise accordingly.

Execute

Our approach to strategic planning, alignment, and execution enables you to reliably deliver on the targets you set for your company, creating predictability and stability the market will reward.

Strategy Alignment Pyramid Graphic with 5 Sections

Our strategy alignment triangle is broken down into 5 sections:

Vision or Mission Statement (Why we exist?)

Aspirational, directional, passion for the future

Values (How we act?)

Behavioral (win at all costs vs win together)
Where we will spend our time, money, and mindshare

Objectives (What we are trying to accomplish?)

Measurable, quantifiable & time bound
Constituents, employee, financial and/or stakeholder focused

Strategy (How are we going to do it?)

Describe the method or approach
Explain the “big bets” and/or where to take risk

Initiatives (What are the priorities for resources?)

Focus on the critical few
Describe actions, outcomes, expectations
Designate supporting + supported relationships

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We’d love to learn more about you, your team, and your challenges.
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Strategy Alignment

Organizations perform when teams work, and teams can’t work without strategy alignment

Design

Implement

Execute

Our strategy alignment triangle is broken down into 5 sections:

Vision or Mission Statement (Why we exist?)​

Values (How we act?)​

Objectives (What we are trying to accomplish?)​

Strategy (How are we going to do it?)​

Initiatives (What are the priorities for resources?)​

We Want to Hear From You.

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