“ Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
— from ‘The Way of Kings’ ”
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INCEPTION + EVOLUTION
Venture planning, research and setup.
Opportunity sizing and risk assessment.
Auditing the strategy.
Changing the strategy.
Risk management and adaptation.
Auditing the synchronicity between people, processes, technologies, resources, and culture.
Auditing the alignment between roles, controls, speed, flexibility, doctrine, and culture.
Auditing the fitness between the resourcing and the objectives.
Building capacity to meet objectives.
Reengineering people, operations, technologies, and go-to-market.
Competitive advantages derived from location, plant, and operations.
Marketing, distribution, market research and analysis.
Guiding the management during a firm’s early years.
STRATEGIC Undertakings
Auditing the fitness between strategy and execution.
Shock management and management in uncertain and unstable contexts.
Systems complexity, dependencies, and feedback analysis.
Competitive intelligence and competition analysis. Conflict strategy.
Business process improvement.
Organisational design, development, and transformation.
Resourcing audit.
Innovation management.
Change management.
Governance fitness.
Ethics and professional integrity.
Governance and compliance.
Succession planning.
Education and mentoring.
Board audit.
Executive committee audit.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Competitive intelligence strategy.
Global, regional, local competitive context analysts.
Short, medium, long term risk and opportunities analysts.
Scenario and war gaming.
Conflict readiness, planning, execution.
Design and implementation of intelligence systems.
Auditing, management, and change management of intelligence systems and processes.
Monitoring.
Profiling.
Education and mentoring.