Why should strategy consultants be interested in Strategy Dynamics?

Strategy consultants are retained to help clients answer the strategic questions as to why their organisation's performance is progressing as it is, and how they can improve that performance, sustainably into the future. (Your past education and training is unlikely to have provided you with the tools to answer these questions.) You therefore need a tool-set that fulfils the needs of the CEO and senior management team.

Consultants are brought in because they bring expertise and capacity that is beyond what is available to the client organisation itself. You therefore have additional needs -

You need an approach to strategy development that ...

is a rigorous and reliable method, rather than the many qualitative and ambiguous methods available in the strategy field today
focuses on the substance of the business, i.e. its resources and capabilities, rather than the purely financial measures that dominate current quantitative approaches to strategy
is fast, holistic and reliable, to understand rapidly what is going on, rather than the lengthy shopping-list of possibly relevant issues that typically arise early in client assignments
provides a means of directing the analytical efforts of the team, to avoid the tendency to 'boil the ocean' in the hope of distilling some nuggets of insight
provides a persuasive means of communicating your findings, to ensure understanding by the client, and raise the chance that those findings will be acted upon, rather than the big stacks of disconnected exhibits that risk bemusing the client instead of enlightening them.

Strategy Dynamics is such a method.

Read more about it in our presentations and articles or read "Competitive Strategy Dynamics" chapter summaries

The principles and frameworks behind the Strategy Dynamics approach are built on sound theoretical foundations that have implications throughout the management field, as well as in many others. At the same time, the approach is practical and clear, understandable by everyone with a professional interest in business. It is, however, an approach that is 'deceptively simple'. The content of this website and the publications we offer will provide some insight into the approach, our sister company also offers services for strategy professionals and managers who wish to enhance their understanding of the practice of it.