Strategic Planning
Effective long-range planning is the glue that holds large companies together. Using our Six Rings Planning model, we help large businesses develop a strong strategic foundation, consisting of purpose, core values, and vision. We help our clients build balanced scorecards tied to the strategic foundation. We also help them understand their strategic environment and craft strategies, action steps, and systems to adapt to it successfully.
Examples of our success vary widely. We helped a Fortune 500 company develop and implement a change in its business model that resulted in signficant growth. We helped a large bank navigate the merger with another large bank. We helped a large chemical company develop a balanced scorecard.
As a result of our experience, we offer a multitude of skills and tools that can facilitate a speedy turnaround and enable large companies to implement change quickly. The outcome is higher levels of performance and profitability.
Leadership Development
Our experts can help hone your leadership skills through leadership seminars, executive coaching and online learning. To succeed as a leader in the 21st Century, you need to know how to create a high performance culture."
Leadership Workshops
Our experts can help hone your leadership skills through leadership seminars, executive coaching and online learning. To succeed as a leader in the 21st Century, you need to know how to create a high performance culture."
Straight Talk®: Communication Styles
Straight Talk®: Managing Decisions
Business Process Improvement
LRI designs and manages planning processes to help organizations improve their business effectiveness and efficiency. These engagements vary widely - e.g. developing a new patient care management system for a hospital, developing a new design review process for an architectural firm, and integrating credit card products and marketing channels for a major financial institution.
Typically these assignments involve multiple stakeholder groups. Our value is in knowing how to design and manage processes that enable cross-functional teams to agree on a plan for change and to implement that plan.
We begin by conducting a situation analysis, interviewing people both inside and outside the organization. This may include senior management, mid-level managers, employees, customers and others.
We then synthesize the findings into a coherent and insightful picture of both the current state of the organization and the outcomes desired. We present this analysis to the client, along with our recommendations.
The next step is to work closely with the client to prioritize the recommendations and identify the end result desired - and build ownership for change. This is a critical point - and one where LRI's expertise and experience are invaluable. We understand the difference between "hollow" championship and a plan that is owned and ready to be implemented.
Once the end result is clearly identified, we help our clients develop a detailed implementation plan for achieving it. Using a skillful blend of facilitation, organizational planning, research, and other skills, we manage the implementation process and ensure ownership of the change across all relevant stakeholders of the organization.
In order to assure the highest quality results, we draw on a full array of related skills, including:
- Situation analysis and assessment
- Product-market research
- Business planning
- Scenario planning
- Project management
- Facilitation
- Team development
- Performance measurement and analysis
- Information flow analysis
- Systems improvement