Creating implementable and effective strategies

Author: Alastair Mitchell-Baker

2 September 2024


In recent weeks, many of us have soaked ourselves in the Olympics, and if one thing is clear from that, ‘it’s not how you start that count but how you finish.

So it is with strategy work. It’s possible to create a beautiful, shiny report or slide deck that looks and feels absolutely magnificent—the gold medal of documents. However, it doesn’t even get through qualification when it comes to implementation and outcomes.

In a world that’s becoming increasingly complex and chaotic across all sectors, robust strategic thinking is essential for success. We believe clear and relevant strategies are key to organisations achieving their vision and goals.

We collaborate with our clients to engage multiple stakeholders from across complex systems, developing shared strategic goals, strategies, plans, and partnership arrangements with a clear focus on a shared understanding.

Many of our clients, especially those in health and care, now need to work with multiple organisations and even across multiple systems. This makes strategy development a complicated piece of work; however, the implementation becomes very complex. This requires an altogether different level of understanding and client support, which Tricordant is well equipped, experienced, and able to provide.

We help you develop a living, responsive strategy at speed by:

  • Co-working with you and your teams.
  • Making sense of complex environments, systems, relationships and data together.
  • Building partnerships between stakeholders, brokering difficult conversations and helping to manage differences.
  • Creating a common language and concepts that everyone can embrace. ‘People own what they create.’
  • Bringing strategy to life, we focus on making a difference for all individuals: service users, customers, and staff alike.
  • Scenario planning – allowing you to prepare for tomorrow by envisioning and preparing for different futures today.
  • Identifying how you can join things up across your organisation to help make your strategy happen, around for example organisation design, workforce development and planning, key processes and systems, and culture change.
  • Using tried and tested tools, experience and expert knowledge around change and project management to work alongside your team and enable them to develop and build on your strategy.
  • Defining the most effective methodology for immediate and sustained change.

We are here for you.

Find out more on our website, where you can also read my Strategy in Complex Systems blog.

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