Strategy

Strategy: Facilitation & Advice; Business & People

Need a new strategy or have one that needs refreshing?  Or you have a strategy that is not delivering what you expected or wanted? We can design and facilitate the process or advise you, as we have experience of developing strategy and driving its implementation.

Background

  • We have designed and facilitated strategy sessions for Boards and management teams
  • We have taught strategic thinking, a useful skill in strategy sessions
  • We have been the person in the company designing the strategy
  • We have been in management/leadership teams in strategy sessions
  • We have been in Boards working with management on their strategy or overseeing the strategy of the management team

We do not work with a single model and our advice goes beyond theoretical concepts (although we are knowledgeable about the theory too). We have hands-on experience of developing strategy and driving its implementation. We turn strategy into execution and practice.

No matter what challenges you face—business strategy, investment strategy, commercial or negotiating strategy, operational excellence, maintenance or engineering strategy, technology or people strategy, supply chain strategy, acquisition or divestment strategy in oil, gas or chemicals or energy transition strategy—we are here to support you.

Previous examples

  • Designing and supporting business strategy refresh sessions for family-owned West African oil & gas company, with new external investors
  • Advising and overseeing business strategy development of an Uzbek national company
  • Developing business strategies for corporate universities in Kazakhstan and Russia
  • Teaching strategic thinking and faciltiating business strategy for national chemicals company in Kazakhstan
  • Developing people strategy as part of the business strategy for major oil company in Russia and Shell Chemicals Technology globally
  • Developing people strategy for national downstream (manufacturing and marketing) company in Central Asia
  • Facilitating and overseeing strategy for not-for-profit Foundation in The Netherlands
  • Developing business strategy for large global consultancy
  • Setting up the Strategy Practice for a global consultancy

Offering

  • Design and facilitation of new or strategy refresh sessions
  • Advice and input on strategy development