Haldane Strategy Execution

High Impact Delivery

After a tough recession, whether your business faces growth or cost challenges the luxury of spending time on elongated strategic reviews and large scale technology led programmes is diminishing. Getting results and delivering strategy is the focus. Haldane helps your business execute strategy by providing you with expertise on demand and bringing teams of practitioners together. Businesses today require a new form of support, whether it is to grow, re-structure, improve performance or transform.

The Evidence for a new breed of consultancy is compelling. There has not been a significant step change in Business Transformation capability over the last decade. Whilst most consultancy firms will say they can help deliver results and execute, the reality is that large scale consultancies have over promised and under delivered. They offer quantity, scale and reach but not necessarily better results often relying on staff inherited from a previous TUPE scenario.

Strategy houses are great at design but their recruitment process does not equip them to provide delivery expertise. Advisory firms are also building capability too but, in an environment of increased regulatory focus can your business entertain further potential conflicts of interest? The Standish report 2009 and the IBM C Level report 2009 highlight that such firms have contributed to:-

•    Only 32% of projects delivered successfully

•    68% of a 1000 CEO sample, identifying a lack of change capability as their key problem

Working on the right things. When we’ve carried out client transformation health checks, we regularly find that over 50% of the projects underway in a business are not delivering the agreed strategic priorities. A focus on strategy alignment and continually doing the right things shoudl be at the heart of effective change.

Executing better. The Standish report is not an academic review, it highlights real-world short-comings. Many projects fail to deliver on time-cost- scope. Even many “successful” projects delivering on time, have actually failed to meet original budget and requirements only to launch with reduced scope. There is no short-cut for expertise that can “cut through” programme and project bureaucracy and get to the root of a problem in your M&A, integration or transformation programme.

Strategy alignment and execution is the Haldane USP. (see Fig. 1 above) What businesses  require in the future is the ability to focus on the right priorities (strategy alignment) and to execute well (strategy delivery). Haldane provide experienced practitioners, not whoever is on the bench. We are collaborative but challenging, independent from product and work with our clients to provide them the knowledge to succeed. If you are unhappy with your transformation results so far, call us today to discuss a different approach, carry out a programme health-check or help turnaround struggling initiatives.