Strategy

Every business needs a strategy to set the direction of the business; to make decisions on identifying what resources are needed in the future, and where those resources including its capital and people, will be allocated to pursue the strategy.

Strategies are different from tactics in that: 1. They are proactive and not re-active as tactics are. 2. They are internal in source and the business venture has absolute control. The Strategy must have clear and achievable goals with set time frames, that cover all aspects of the business and provide the measures to enable review of the business performance in the future. The management team using current or new skills to meet the changing situation must implement these strategies.

The issue in Strategy is not starting the process by asking “what do we do?” but of implementing the strategy and answering “why haven’t we done it?” Parts of your business may have barriers to introducing the new practices of the changed business. It may be your cost structure, or your production capability, or your people.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. - Michael Porter

Gretan Consulting is a specialist in Strategy. Not just the vital planning process, we also assist companies and businesses of all sizes in implementing the strategy by using specialised tools to quickly and cost effectively identify gaps to the plan and fast track remedial action. We will help you build the skills required to meet the new challenges to beat or avoid the competition, even though the future competition may not yet be known.

Gretan is a hands-on consultancy business. We won’t pass you down the line to a junior who may have learned the theory, but not yet graduated from the School of Hard Knocks.