All of our engagements address underlying issues best resolved through well-structured conversations with the right data, the right people, and the right process for finding the solution. Typical challenges include:

THE ANNUAL OR REGULARLY RECURRING OFFSITE

The core business of our firm is to design and manage recurring annual or quarterly strategy offsites. This continuity enables clients to leverage our constantly growing knowledge of their companies, to follow up from session to session and year to year, and to focus on strategic issues being addressed over multiple years. Coupled with our model of managing the process without determining the outcome, such ongoing relationships enable our clients to maintain and refine their strategies while becoming more adept at uncovering new opportunities.

SPECIFIC STRATEGIC ISSUES

Clients often call upon us to help them address periodic strategic challenges that new circumstances often generate for a leader or leadership team. As various as the industries and conditions that produce them, these issues can include:

• Conducting competitive war gaming sessions
• Identifying and pursuing growth opportunities
• Developing stronger innovation capabilities
• Conducting competitive and market-focused scenario planning
• Adapting to changing industry and competitor dynamics
• Developing and refreshing vision and values
• Developing customer-focused value propositions
• Focusing resources and rationalizing initiatives

Our combination of strategic expertise and structured process enables our clients to address such issues efficiently and effectively – and achieve the leadership alignment required to see the solutions through.

LONG-TERM STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

Many of our clients, coming to the end of a strategy cycle or facing upheavals in their industry, engage us to help guide them through the development of their next long-term strategy. This often involves a series of workshops spaced over several months and mobilizing the input of several tiers of management. These rigorous efforts enable our clients to look clearly over the horizon of the coming three to five years, develop a vision of the future they want to pursue, and together develop the strategic initiatives to secure it.

LARGE-SCALE MOBILIZATION EVENTS

In addition to small executive sessions, the Strategic Offsites Group has also built significant expertise in designing and running large-scale executive conferences, typically focused on communicating strategies to diverse audiences.

These events require the same rigor as an executive offsite, which means significant upfront involvement by senior teams to ensure there are clear objectives, coherent themes, and achievable outcomes. Our approach ensures all constituents – from organizers to top executives to external speakers – understand their roles, have clear action plans, and are prepared on the day of the event to deliver against your desired objectives, all with our expert guidance and facilitation.

We design events that maintains a high-energy pace in which participants experience a range of activities from informative presentations to highly interactive breakout sessions, all tailored to your goals for the event.