Strategy

Creating implementable and effective strategies

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 work collaboratively 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.

Capital strategy and business case development

Good capital planning is about developing buildings and technology to transform the service user and staff experience, acting as enablers of great experience and outcomes rather than as constraints. We can help you build a compelling case for change and investment in order to secure capital investment from regulators and other funding bodies, using the HM Treasury Green Book business case process if required. We can also help you to mobilise and manage your capital development programme.

Workforce Strategy Management and Planning

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The Challenges

Today, organisations across all sectors have to focus on agility and driving transformation in the midst of often highly complex and unpredictable environments.

We work with clients across the private, public and not for profit sectors, as they wrestle with challenges, such as:

Increased complex, ambiguous and volatile external contexts

Lack of clarity over funding

Workforce shortages

Mismatch of demand and capacity

Challenging economic climate

Interpreting and responding to Government policy

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Our Approach

Traditionally, strategies have been seen as long-term corporate exercises handed down from company headquarters or government departments.

However, Tricordant brings a modern approach – combining insights and analysis with a creative flair to equip you with the tools you need to create powerful and innovative strategies with wide support and the power to transform your organisation.

We guide you confidently through a defined process, adapted to your particular needs, that results in a bespoke strategy to achieve your goals.

We’ll equip you with the skills you need to develop a flexible long term strategic plan, giving you the ability to adapt and respond to any challenges that may be around the corner.

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

  • Co-working with you and your teams.
  • Making sense together of complex environments, systems, relationships and data.
  • 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, focussing 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.
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Delivering your outcomes

Our approach is crafted with your success in mind and in summary we will:

  • Co-create agreed strategies and approaches that go across complex systems and take account of local political and organisational priorities and differences.
  • Support strengthened relationships and partnerships within and between organisations.
  • Facilitate strategies that can be implemented even in complex environments.
  • Support the integration of your strategy and culture.
  • Support implementation as appropriate.
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Strategy Resources

Blog
Designing Tomorrow’s NHS: Operating Models Powered by AI

Will your organisation’s Operating Model enable you to deliver your current operational and financial targets, whilst also making progress on your strategic ambitions to transform how and where care is provided? 

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Elegant Simplicity: Using Principles to Navigate Complexity

In times of rapid, complex change, it can feel almost impossible to slow down long enough to think clearly. Traditional rules and processes often fall short—they’re too rigid, too blunt, and too slow to keep pace with the realities we face. That’s why principles matter. Principles cut through noise and offer a steadying guide when certainty is scarce. They don’t give us easy answers, but they help us ask better questions, focus on what truly counts, and make decisions that stay aligned with purpose. In the midst of complexity, well‑crafted principles provide an elegant simplicity—helping leaders see the bigger picture, create clarity, and stay true to what matters most.

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Case Studies
AI-Enhanced Organisation Design of UK Supply Chain Case Study

Boehringer Ingelheim UK faced a pivotal moment with its emerging product pipeline and the strategic “Pathway to 2035”. The existing supply chain model, needed to evolve into a more agile, customer centrict structure that empowers Supply Chain colleagues, and which supports both human and animal health markets. This transformation required not just structural adjustments but a fundamental shift towards deeper customer intimacy, faster market responsiveness, and being prepared for the integration of advanced technologies such as AI. The challenge was to design a UK Supply Chain organisation that could deliver these ambitions while maintaining operational excellence. 

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Leading in Complex Times: Finding Clarity Through the Noise

At Tricordant, we believe simplicity is not a shortcut; it’s a discipline. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, which is challenging in a world desiring quick fixes and silver bullets. That hard work means understanding the underlying challenges and designing elegant solutions that enable both your people and the organisation to thrive.

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