Sydney Consulting Corporation - Strategic Planning

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Strategies for success

Strategy is everything - the Strategic Plan

Top performing companies achieve success through the precise implementation of clearly defined strategic objectives. The foundation of their success lies usually in the clarity of their vision and the alignment of the strategic plan beneath it.

Strategic planning is all about thoroughness and deep analysis. Internal pressures make it impossible for managers to achieve desired results without appropriate support and guidance.

Getting your world in order

The root cause of poor strategic outcomes are almost always traced back to a misalignment of the strategy.

A Strategic Plan must be:

Clear and ubiquitous
Well aligned with correct levels of resources, people and corporate structures.
Clearly communicated to all employees
Able to extract maximum available benefit from your allocated budget's size
Able to provide visibility on possible expansion opportunities into new export markets.

Planning for effective change

For effective change, you must start by understanding your existing structures. Every organisation is comprised of a complex set of interdependent elements that must be understood, adapted and aligned to common goals.

Your corporate strategy is developed through an understanding of your operating environment. You can then create an internal structure to optimise the implementation of the strategy and align your resources for maximum effect.

There are five elements that comprise a successful strategic plan:

Vision to set the future direction
Key goals that set the strategy for the future
Major projects to implement the key goals through specific projects
Actions and outcomes from the major projects within an agreed timframe
Results such as increased customers, new markets and increased profits

Implementing your strategy

Sydney Consulting will design implementation plans to prioritise the cascade of resources from the key goals identified in the strategic plan and through key projects. All projects throughout the implementation phase will be designed to clearly identify the purpose, key milestones, resources and other measures of success.

The Net Result

Sydney Consulting will deliver a strategic plan that will best integrate and balance your competing internal resource demands. The net result of work will deliver:

Resourcing - the correct workforce with the correct skills set, correctly budgeted
Structures - effective structures, well positioned to carry your strategic plan
Employee understanding - position descriptions and divisional structures constituted within the required skill sets to implement the strategy
Accountability - transparency for the delivery of identified tasks and projects to implement the strategy
Integrated Key Result Areas from an organisational perspective, a divisional perspective down to individual position Key Performance Indicators to create a clear and effective system of performance review

A clear goal, a correctly aligned organisation and correct resourcing, together make a great recipe for success.

SCC Strategic Services in Asia

Implementing the Strategy

Sydney Consulting Corporation has developed and refined a methodology to implement strategic plans that has elevated our services beyond our competitors. We pride ourselves on the success of our clients' strategic plans because they are facilitated and implemented with our assistance. This means that the plans are actually delivered.

Those company strategies that succeed always have a pre-prepared implementation plan that has been given as much attention as the actual strategy itself. The process of implementation requires strict management disciplines and clear instructions. The CEO and Board of Directors should remain focused on how the strategy will be implemented all the way through the process of agreeing on a company strategy itself.

Some of the main areas and disciplines relating to implementation are as follows:

Proposed Risk Mitigation
A united senior management team
Clear management responsibility and accountabilities
Discipline and focus
Effective communication
Balancing existing workloads with the implementation
Allocation of Major Projects to staff teams

The implementation plan should include an agreed timetable of the key milestones to be delivered with target dates. A disciplined approach to the management of this timetable will become one of the success factors behind the success of the strategy.

Throughout the implementation there are three disciplines that will be required:

Project scheduling
Project management resources
Review mechanisms

Sydney Consulting can assist you in delivering the results that your Strategic Plan outlines. We call it ‘bridging the gap between vision and performance'.

Contact details - Asia office

999/9 The Offices at Central World
29^th Floor, Rama I Road.
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330

Phone Number : 66 (0) 2 207 2541 - 2
Fax Number : 66 (0) 2 207 2543

Contact us to discuss a review of your company's performance and what results Sydney Consulting Strategic Planning Services can deliver.

Pfizer Pty Ltd

" The highly skilled project managers assisted us in scoping and structuring each project. They manned them with the most appropriate mix of internal staff and external contractors so as to provide the most cost efficient solution within the specified time frame. "

John Latham
Finance Director
Pfizer Pty Ltd

Austar United

" Thank you for the excellent results and professional way in which the program was conducted. I believe we are well on our way to gaining the entire benefit that was identified during Sydney Consulting's original analysis. "

John Porter
Chief Executive Officer
Austar United
Communications

Australian Vinyls Corp.

"...We initiated a project with Sydney Consulting to inculcate a fundamental change in the plant culture. The investment has been justified, providing a pay-back within the six month duration of the project... "

Mr Murray Winstanley
Managing Director
Australian Vinyls
Corporation Ltd