Strategy Readiness Assessment

Diagnose Blockers to
Achieving Strategic Goals

Harvard Business Review estimates that between 60% and 90% of strategy plans never fully launch. Other sources estimate that nearly 50% of organizations fail to meet at least half their strategic targets. We designed a diagnostic to look across plans, people, tools, and capabilities to understand why you may be missing your strategy goals –and what you can do about it.

List of Subservices

• Mission / Strategy Deployment: Assessing your strategic plan and internal stakeholders for alignment, understanding, specificity of actions, accountability, ongoing refinement.

• Community / City Needs: Interviewing and surveying external stakeholders to understand needs and sentiments. Identifying missing links between their needs and your plans.

• Operational Insights: Reviewing your operational teams for their capability to deliver strategic initiative projects, and own the changes those projects bring.

• Technology Insights: Evaluating your technology and systems for their capability to support and scale your strategic initiatives.

• Budget: Assessing your budgets and funding needs for their alignment with your strategic goals and initiatives. Identifying risks and opportunities which may impact timelines.

• Leadership Circles: Analyzing the charter and remit for each of your leadership levels including roles, activities, signs of success, engagement / influence, differentiation, and collaboration.

• Strategy Leadership: Interviewing and evaluating your leaders on their capabilities to balance strategic and tactical thinking–especially useful for identifying leaders who are successful business ‘operators’ but are less successful as ‘builders’ of growth and change.