Strategy Execution

Our offerings reflect the nature of a Strategy Execution Lifecycle.

70% of executive teams spend less than one day per month discussing strategy.

HBR referencing study by Bridges Business Consultancy

Free Strategy Assessment

Complementary, no-strings review and feedback on your current strategy

Facilitated Strategic Planning I — Charting Your Strategic Direction

Identifying what matters most: defining your organization’s advantage

Strategic Planning II — Shaping Your Strategic Portfolio

Translating the what into the how: action plans make strategy implementable

Guiding Your Strategy Implementation

Ensuring the urgent doesn’t consume the important.

Our Offerings

Free Strategy Assessment

Complementary, no-strings review and feedback on your current strategy

Peace of Mind and Confidence

Get peace of mind and greater confidence that your strategy work will achieve your vision & goals.

Successful Strategy is Rare

Studies documented by Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Kaplan & Norton, Economist and others have consistently shown that less than 30% of organizations are effective in turning their strategic plans into tangible results.

Avoid Common Pitfalls

Use the results of our audit to validate your effort and to potentially plug any common traps that organizations fall into.

What to Expect

Express your interest and we’ll sign an NDA for your privacy
Send us your strategy material
We pass it through our Strategy Lifecyle model
We’ll send you a 2-page readout providing actionable feedback

No Cost. Simple. Fast. Hassle-free. No strings attached. No additional commitments required

What do you have to lose?

Facilitated Strategic Planning I — Charting Your Strategic Direction

Identifying what matters most: defining your organization’s advantage

Your Org - Your Vision

You have vision. You have goals.
Whether your organization is the entire enterprise or a business unit, we can help.
To create clear direction for your organization’s journey, all leadership team members should contribute in this process.

Analyzing for a Good Strategic Direction

Leave the facilitation to unbiased professionals with experience developing and implementing strategy.
No one knows your organization, your challenges, your strengths, your opportunities, and your people, like you and your team.
To ensure informed analysis, we help leaders like you absorb the considerable complexity and ambiguity from your situation.

Delivering a Focused Strategic Direction

We, at Inertia Rx, know what it takes to chart a well-formed strategic direction.
We translate the analysis into a problem that your organization can solve.
We can get your ideas, concerns, and priorities out of your heads and into a clear and focused strategic direction

What to Expect

Leadership Team Consensus
Clear Direction for communicating with stakeholders
Foundation for building an executable plan

Strategic Planning II — Shaping Your Strategic Portfolio

Translating the what into the how: action plans make strategy implementable

Bridge the Gap

After charting Direction, it’s not wise to Implement…yet.
Between Direction and Implementation lies the need for executable plans.
Because achieving results will require considerable time and coordinated energy, we help leaders shape a strategic portfolio to guide execution.

Avoid Common Failures

Fewer than 29% of managers could list 3 of the company’s 5 strategic priorities (MIT Sloan School of Management)
95% of the typical workforce doesn’t understand the strategy; 60% of organizations do not link strategies with budgets
61% of executives acknowledge their firms often struggle to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and its day-to-day implementation (Economist Intelligence Unit & Bridges Business Consulting)

Engender Success

Inertia Rx partners with you to maximize the likelihood of success by facilitating creation of:

Action plans that operationalize the strategic direction.
A change management approach and communications plan.
Progress reporting systems based on scorecards with key leading measures.

What to Expect

Confidence your strategy is achievable. You’re ready.
Knowledge of required budget, resources, technology, facilities, suppliers, incentive structures, and what processes to start or stop.
Effective communication, commitment, and buy-in.

Guiding Your Strategy Implementation

Ensuring the urgent doesn’t consume the important.

Successful Implementation

Results don’t just happen – implementation must be orchestrated
You have planned the work, now work the plan – with disciplined and continuous monitoring
Yet Plans aren’t perfect – You’ll Need Some Agility…to Learn, Refine and Adapt

Why so many Fail

67% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution (Harvard Business Review); Failure to execute is the norm (“The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action”).
The urgent (day-to-day) consumes all, leaving little to no available time and energy for the important (strategic improvements).
The people, processes, and systems at play today are perfectly designed to produce today’s results…but not tomorrow’s desired results.
Driving strategic actions down to all levels, and across all functions, requires continuous communication, expectation-setting, progress monitoring, listening, and learning; this kind of sustained discipline is rare.

Engender Success

Inertia Rx partners with you to maximize the likelihood of success by:

Promoting workforce engagement; monitoring and reporting on progress.
Guiding the creation and implementation of new processes, practices, and behaviors.
Creating learning loops to support adaptation and agility.