Strategy Execution and Culture
Tackling Amorphous Barriers The Unwritten Rules of Strategy Execution & Culture Culture is comprised of values, beliefs, and practices that are both declared and tacitly shared but are often not
Strategy Planning and Implementation
Your team of trusted business advisors
Develop and execute a strategic plan that guides and focuses your organization to achieve and sustain results.
Leveraging our business expertise, Stratford has helped
organizations like yours successfully navigate times of growth, reorganization and transformation for over ten years.
Combining years of expertise with an emphasis on strategy and execution, we work with your company to help you articulate and implement strategic and operational plans that drive results and accountability.
Trusted and respected by leaders of growing organizations
“Right from the beginning, the Stratford team expressed a desire to align with our goals. They balanced respect and professionalism with the confidence to challenge our assumptions and biases, including my own. The result was a stronger plan than I had expected, and a validation of our mission, vision and values.”
Why Stratford?
The teams we’ve supported through strategy implementation & development chose us because…
Proven
Methodologies, templates & frameworks
Experienced
Executives who've been in your shoes
Help to operationalize
Lean in support to drive successful implementation
Implementation focus
Aligns your exec team and operating plans
Featured Strategic Development Tools
Discovery Business Assessment
Knowing where to focus your strategic efforts can be daunting. Here is a short assessment to help you identify the key drivers of your business value.
Implementing Your
Strategy
Strategy typically fails during the implementation stage, that's why building in the capacity for continuous improvement is necessary in your planning process.
COMMUNICATING YOUR
STRATEGY
Employees must understand strategy in order to implement it. Here are three key steps to help you connect the dots between strategy and the day-to-day.
Our Approach
Stratford combines leading-edge tools with real-world experience to build strong and growing businesses. Following a comprehensive current state assessment and gap analysis, we’ll help you create a strategic business plan that guides and focuses your organization. With a strategy in place, we’ll then provide actionable and measurable plans that bring alignment throughout your entire organization, along with an operating rhythm to ensure effective implementation.
Strategy as a journey – tying it all together
Research and stakeholder input
Current state assessment and gap analysis.
Set desired future state
Develop and gain alignment on key strategic objectives
Strategic Plan Alignment
Develop, articulate, and finalize strategic plan initiatives
Operationalize the plan
Define tactics to ensure success and supports follow up efforts
Quarterly accountability Reviews
Follow up on strategy implementation success.
“We were very satisfied with how [Stratford] lead EORLA through the development of a strategic plan. Stratford's team mix was excellent, they brought in the strengths we needed at the right time.”
Strategy as a journey - tying it all together
Stratford offers a number of customized solutions for strategy development and implementation. If you need to optimize your business processes and develop scalable new business models to improve your organizational effectiveness and achieve stronger financial results, we’re here for you.
Strategy Development & Implementation Solutions
- Strategy facilitation
- Executive retreat facilitation
- Strategic and operating plan development
- Balanced scorecard and key performance indicators (KPI) development
- Implementation frameworks
- Accountability reviews
Strategy Resources
The Business Leader’s Guide in a Time of Uncertainty
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Optimizing the Benefits of your OKRs
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From OK to OKR
INTERVIEW WITH AN EXPERT Getting from OK to OKR We ask Expert Harry Page How to Get Started Executive advisor Harry Page is once again talking about the importance of
Everyone is Embracing OKRs – Shouldn’t I?
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Don’t Bite Off More than You can Chew
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Stratford’s work with The Royal College featured in OBJ
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Ottawa’s Best Consulting Firm
Thank you Ottawa! Stratford is proud to share that we were awarded the title of Ottawa’s Best Consulting Firm at the 2022 Ottawa Awards. We are humbled and grateful that
Stratford Joins Hub350 as Founding Community Sponsor
Holding its grand opening ceremonies on October 28, Hub350 welcomed guests to its new space at 350 Legget Drive in Kanata North to celebrate the co-working space. The 12,000-square-foot space
Ottawa Board of Trade Welcomes New Board of Directors as it Launches New Strategic Plan
It’s a time of change at the Ottawa Board of Trade. And we couldn’t be more excited to join them in welcoming a new team to help them usher in
Stratford’s work with Ottawa Board of Trade featured in the Ottawa Business Journal
Stratford Management Consulting is featured in the Ottawa Business Journal in an article titled: “Getting the Ottawa Board of Trade off on the right foot” When Ottawa’s three chambers of
TechExit NOW featured speaker Colleen Kelley
Are you M&A Ready? We are thrilled to have our Business Strategy & Operations Lead, Colleen Kelley , speaking at this year’s virtual TechExit NOW event. This session will showcase