Strategic Planning Services
Scenario development, business modeling and competitor analysis lead to strategy initiative implementations that deliver superior growth.
Our strategy development process creates the best opportunity for companies to excel as they grow into their future.
We encapsulate three key ingredients into a strategy session:
- Business Delivery Model - the value you truly generate for your customers and how you compete to deliver that value,
- Scenario Planning - what changes should you make to embrace alternative futures,
- Strategic Initiatives - specific and actionable changes that position your company.
Why You Need a Strategic Plan
Uncertainty in the industrial environment is increasing. Customers are passing more of the effects of this uncertainty onto their suppliers by sharing it throughout the supply chain.
Studies show that many companies have neither prepared themselves for making good decisions nor are innovative enough to differentiate themselves in this type environment
We have brought together two methods used by leading companies to excel in this type of environment:
One is scenario planning - the creation and use of scenarios that describe possible, different futures that can be used to test or identify strategies.
The other is Lean Management techniques that enable companies to deliver products and services at a lower cost and with higher flexibility than their competitors. This attribute of ours was featured on Alexander Haig’s World Business Review television series.
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Strategic Planning Testimonials
John de Wardt provided us with a straight forward, hard driving, no nonsense approach to strategic planning that is still helping us define and achieve new business goals.
John de Wardt provided us with a straight forward, hard driving, no nonsense approach to strategic planning that is still helping us define and achieve new business goals.
...substantial improvement in product delivery and resultant reductions of inventory. The catalyst for these new processes was the Strategic Planning workshop lead by John de Wardt.
We hired John de Wardt to take us through a strategy development process for our construction business. We feel confident that these changes have created a stronger company to carry us through the significant growth we are now experiencing doubling our revenues in the 2 years after John's intervention.
John de Wardt's keen knowledge of the oil and gas industry gives him a unique insight that manifests itself in strategies and action plans that deliver real value. His recent work with us resulted in a set of strategic initiatives that are already beginning to deliver value only a few months into their implementation.
We hired John de Wardt to take us through a strategy development process for our construction business. We feel confident that these changes have created a stronger company to carry us through the significant growth we are now experiencing doubling our revenues in the 2 years after John's intervention.
John de Wardt's keen knowledge of the oil and gas industry gives him a unique insight that manifests itself in strategies and action plans that deliver real value. His recent work with us resulted in a set of strategic initiatives that are already beginning to deliver value only a few months into their implementation.
Strategic Planning Case Studies
Significant growth through strategy development.
THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY (one of the top Industrial Construction Contractors in the US - see links under "Clients") hired DE WARDT AND COMPANY to apply their scenario based strategy development program to their construction business. TIC's initial 20 years of growth had reached a plateau and they were keen to find ways to achieve their next phase of growth. The strategy development program identified six key initiatives which were pursued according to the implementation plans developed by TIC's teams and guided by John de Wardt. Each of these initiatives have achieved significant changes to their respective areas in the organization. TIC revenues doubled during the 2 years after the strategy session (from circa $500 million to over $ 1 billion) and continue an upward trend in spite of the competitive climate for both projects and resources. These initiatives crossed the breadth of the company including training, human resources, information technology, marketing, organization and international operations. TIC has placed in the top 10 contractors, in nine categories, as ranked by Engineering News Record.
Increased competitiveness in low price environment
Western Summit, a major player in the construction of water and waste-water treatment plants, relied on our scenario based strategic planning program to build a foundation from which to grow. After a period of updating their organization, systems and management techniques, their revenues started to rise and continue to do so. This company is better ready to face the significant challenges in this highly competitive industry as municipalities continue to pursue the low cost bidders while adding full services to the scope of work. These full services include operation and maintenance of the plants after construction, often on an incentive payment scheme basis.