Strategy Development

What's the most important thing your leadership team needs to do? For most organizations it is to get clear and execute on the business strategy.

Which is why we continue to be amazed when teams outsource this work to consultants. Apart from plausible deniability, there seems to be little reason to do so.

Instead, our approach provides you with a partner for YOU to develop your strategy, using a proven and successful approach.

From purpose to execution, we help leaders craft clear, coherent strategies and bring them to life.

Frame

We start with clarity on the purpose and vision for the organization, helping paint a clear picture of the destination for the strategic work.

Frame

We provide facilitation services to develop focused, coherent and actionable strategy including clarity on the most challenging problems, guiding policy for how to address it and a cohesive set of actions.

Frame

We support leadership teams as they develop, communicate and execute distinct strategies for optimizing current operations, pursuing growth, and exploring transformation.

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A structured approach

Our proven and customized frameworks are grounded on some of the best and most popular strategy, ideation and decision models, including:

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath

Upstream by Dan Heath

The Open, Narrow Close process

The Story Connection by Intara

Continuous Strategy

 

What you'll gain

  • Alignment on purpose and guiding policies.

  • Structured facilitation to identify real challenges vs. downstream symptoms.

  • A 3-year vision with measurable goals.

  • Tools for continuous strategy, not one-time events.

  • A clear strategy story arc for communication.

  • The skills to continue the strategy journey yourselves, without engaging external consultants.

Learning how to incorporate AI

Our strategy work also shows teams how to successfully incorporate insights from AI on refining their goals, developing impactful communication and integrating lessons learned from other organizations.

We guide teams through the use of the CRIT framework to prompt AI/LLM tools to achieve a superior outcome.

A structured partnership

Our strategy program incorporates a variety of engagement styles to help you achieve your goals.

  • An extended 2 day facilitated workshop to build the strategy framework
  • Ongoing support on strategy refinement either 1-1 or 1-small teams
  • Assistance with story and presentation development.
  • Regular workshops to maintain momentum and prepare for the next strategy cycle

Strategy

We reframed strategy from vague goals to actionable milestones. The difference was night and day.

Getting clear

Intara helped us turn uncertainty into opportunity — and gave us a path to move forward.