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"I would highly recommend [Stratford] and my recommendation comes without any hesitation. When you engage Stratford, you gain a true consulting partner with an ability to objectively align to your project goals, all the while challenging you and your organization’s assumptions and/or biases, and you have an active listener in your process. In Stratford, you gain shared perspectives and an even more informed strategy and set of priorities, complete with a balanced, invested and respectful relationship that is punctuated by outstanding professionalism.

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Is Your Strategic Plan Still Just A Document?

Achieve your objectives by transforming your strategic vision into actionable plans and sustainable results.

Get From Intention To Implementation
With Confidence.

Define your purpose and priorities and establish a roadmap for achieving your goals.
Understand the Market

Understand the Market

Respond to disruptive forces and implement agile processes to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.
Prioritize and Focus

Prioritize
& Focus

Define your purpose and priorities and establish a roadmap for achieving your goals. 
Drive Change

Drive
Change

Manage change effectively, building buy-in and support for new initiatives and processes.

Achieve Results

Achieve
Results

Build performance management systems and identify KPIs to monitor results.

Get Results, Not Just Plans

 

A practical approach to developing a strategy and implementation plan to achieve outcomes that drive business growth and success. 

Step 1

Research and Stakeholder Input

When you are so focused on your product/service delivery, it is easy to lose sight of changes in the external environment and inefficiencies in the internal environment that could disrupt your business.

We like to start with a current state assessment and gap analysis to help you identify and respond to emerging trends and market opportunities.

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Define the Desired Future State

To improve company performance, you need to make progress and focus on initiatives that drive business results. A clear vision, mission, or set of objectives will guide decision-making and goal-setting so you can focus on what matters most.

We help organizations define their purpose and priorities and gain alignment on the key strategic objectives to achieve results.

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Step 3

Develop Your Strategic Plan

How you organize and facilitate your strategy development can have an impact on the quality of the plan and your ability to achieve desired results. Having an objective facilitator to help organize, lead and inspire strategic planning development can take your organization to the next level in less time and effort. 

Our phased, structured and efficient approach to strategy development helps organizations align and focus on creating a strategic plan that maps the way forward to deliver results. 

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Operationalize Your Strategic Plan

Implementation is by far the most important part of your strategic plan and is where most organizations fail. Executing your vision requires a strong operating plan that includes resource, investment, and time requirements clearly articulated and the team committed to delivering.

We help organizations operationalize their strategic plan and lean in to help them implement. Our pragmatic approach ensures achievability and accountability in reaching goals and objectives. 

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Accountability & Progress Reviews

Measuring and understanding how you're doing against your objectives is key to knowing if you're making progress or if you need to pivot.  

We help organizations put in place performance management systems and KPIs to monitor results and accountability and achieve results.

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Understand the Market
Step 1
Start Strong

Research & Stakeholder Input

Prioritize and Focus
Step 2
Set the Destination

Define the Desired Future State

Work On Business
Step 3
Map the Way Forward

Develop Your Strategic Plan

Drive Change
Step 4
Execute Your Vision

Operationalize Your Strategic Plan

Achieve Results
Step 5
Achieve Results

Accountability & Progress Reviews

“The Stratford team are exceptional and bring a can-do attitude to every project.  Over the years we have worked with Stratford on IT, human resources, strategic and project planning.  Each time we have achieved the results we needed, and our organization is better off as a result.  We would recommend Stratford without hesitation to not-for-profits, private companies and public sector clients.  Undoubtedly, we will send out the ‘bat signal’ to them again and we know they’ll respond with their very best.

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President & CEO

Strategy Is A Journey

It's time your strategic plan started driving accountability & results.

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2024 Global Business Trends

In these turbulent times, identifying business trends and understanding how they will impact business decisions is becoming a source of competitive advantage.

GEMTEC learns some new moves on their way to sustainable growth

Learn how Stratford Group helped engineering firm, GEMTEC, develop a sustainable growth plan using an approach that emphasizes continuous strategy renewal and implementation.

Strategy Maturity Assessment

Easily uncover areas for accelerated progress and overcome obstacles your company may have with the formulation, planning and execution of its strategy.

Ready to Execute Better Results?

Develop & Implement A Strategic Plan That Will Align Your Organization And Drive Accountability & Results.
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Engage Stratford

Your team of trusted business advisors
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Participate in Strategy Development

A phased, structured and efficient approach
Step 3

Implement Your Strategic Plan

Supports to operationalize and measure results

Step 4

Achieve Results

Performance management systems and KPIs to monitor results and accountability

YOU NEED TO SHOW RESULTS.
WE CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THEM.