Solutions - Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is often associated with off-site meetings lasting several days, where leadership teams meet to produce monolithic documents called “Strategic Plans”. These leaders and the documents they produce then go back to the office where the real world starts to impinge on their perfect plans. The documents often quickly become “Strategic Shelfware”, rather than dynamic and living documents that help ignite an organization to accomplish its goals.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology has shown itself to be ideally suited to the strategic planning process. It can help leadership take their plans off the shelf and put them into action. The AHP facilitates the identification and structuring of goals and objectives, and then helps leadership set priorities and establish metrics of performance, often called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The AHP is ideally suited to the facilitating the governance aspects of strategy.

Expert Choice tools support the strategic planning process in ways that traditional tools cannot. Through collaborative brainstorming and identification of strategic goals and objectives, to the alignment of organizational resources, to the measurement of organizational performance, these tools can help ensure an organization not only creates a good plan, but also executes it, and validates its effectiveness.

At Synth Solutions we can help your team turn strategy from a book on a shelf to a living and dynamic plan. Using our StrategySynth™ methodology, we take a systems approach to strategy that unites the vision creation and goal setting process, with the execution planning and performance management processes, to ensure the full strategy lifecycle is considered.

We offer several key solutions to help your strategic alignment efforts succeed:


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