Strategic Planning Workshops & Consulting

Is your organization facing economic headwinds? Turbulant external forces? DSI’s strategic checkup can help refocus your executive team.

Video Link: John Austin, Ph.D. describes how a strategic check-up can help your company navigate these difficult economic times.

Strategic Planning requires a creative but disciplined look at the future

How prepared is your organization for growing economic, political, and social uncertainty?

Some companies in your industry will thrive over the next ten years.  Our strategic planning techniques can increase the odds your company is one of them.

Our strategic planning process focuses on how to develop, test or surface your organization’s strategic direction in the face of uncertainty and complexity.  We aim to help your organization thrive no matter what changes the future brings.

Our Strategic Planning Process can be customized to match the demands of your organization.
  • Location: Our programs can be offered on-site. We will consider any international location.
  • Time and Depth: This program can be used as a single-day workshop, a multi-day workshop, a two hour conference session, or an extended strategy development project.
  • Continued Strategy Development: We have the expertsie and resources to work with your company as you continue to develop a more detailed and actionable strategy.

Objectives

Grounded in techniques aimed at countering common thinking traps and biases, this scenario-based methodology explicitly addresses environmental complexity and uncertainty, helps identify the organizational capabilities required to deal with them, and addresses how to develop and align core competencies at the corporate, divisional or business unit levels.

Developed and successfully applied over more than a decade in over 100 small and large firms in the USA and abroad, the approach extends the strategic vision of your management team while identifiying a portfolio of strategic options to help your organization thrive in the future.

Key Phases of the Process

  • Self-diagnosis regarding approaches to strategic management
  • Challenging of conventional wisdom via scenario thinking
  • Reframing of strategic segments and competitive position
  • Completion of a core capabilities matrix
  • Generation and valuation of strategic options
  • Action plan and implementation strategies

This program can be presented as a senior level executive program, or in the form of a strategy workshop.

More about strategic planning and disruptive environmental change.

Read more about scenario planning from Dr. Paul Schoemaker, founder of Decision Strategies International: Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking

For more on scenario planning see:

2. Interesting output from 1997 scenario planning exercise

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