Organisational Strategy:
The objective of corporate strategy is to articulate a vision for a company to excel both operationally and financially. Grounded in a deep comprehension of competitive advantage, corporate strategy builds a multiyear plan for leveraging this advantage to formulate business strategies for expansion and to generate enduring, substantial value. A successful corporate strategy entails identifying the most advantageous business portfolio, prioritizing key growth initiatives, and establishing a financial strategy to translate the vision into tangible value.
We assist you in framing decisions by examining the rationale behind value creation, forecasting various potential futures, testing alternative pathways, and selecting a cohesive approach. Through this process, we guide you in allocating resources effectively and ensuring commitment to chosen strategies. Moreover, we help position your company to continuously evolve its strategy over time as new insights are gained and circumstances change.
We support business leaders on bold strategic journeys, grounded in unparalleled empirical and social insights, to beat the market.
WHAT WE DO
Market analysis and insights
We support strategic decision making with comprehensive customised market analysis considering emerging trends, competitive landscapes, consumer behavior and sources of competitive advantage. Combining quantitative data analysis with qualitative research techniques we uncover relevant intelligence as the foundation for strategy.
Identifying crux challenges and growth opportunities
We help clients pinpoint and address the most pressing issues hindering their success whether it's navigating market disruptions, optimizing operational processes, or overcoming capability roadblocks.
Develop capability requirements
We work closely with clients to assess their current capabilities and identify gaps that may hinder the achievement of their strategic goals. We facilitate the development of comprehensive capability requirements that address key areas such as operations, technology, innovation, and culture
Build strategic plans
We partner with our clients to develop a comprehensive strategic plans that serve as a blueprint for navigating complexities, seizing opportunities, and driving sustainable growth in an ever-evolving business landscape. Such plans no only set out actions and responsibilities but create a centre around which stakeholders can come together
FEATURED CAPABILITY
A strategic planning session, guided by an expert facilitator, enables the entire leadership team to collaboratively craft a concise and actionable strategy for the organization. Barcley Consulting specializes in leading such sessions, whether conducted in-person or virtually, ensuring teams are aligned and focused.
Free Strategy Maturity Assessment
Our maturity survey provides insights on how to start transforming your organisation today.
OUR APPROACH
Effective strategy cuts through complexity. It reveals the market opportunities to be pursued and the capabilities needed to win. It unifies and inspires people and sets the parameters they need to deliver value to the business, to stakeholders and to customers.
However, the mere presence of a strategy does not guarantee business success. Instead, it is a strategy’s maturity or “strength” that is correlated to financial outperformance. Companies who have got their strategy right (those at the top of their sector) deliver capital returns on average 30 times better than the middle 60% of companies who struggle to return their cost of capital.
Barcley Model for Effective Strategy
Advantage
building
Adaptive
Insight
based
Resilient
Execution
ready
Organisationally aligned
Insight Based: Strategy must be built on a deep, ideally proprietary, understanding of industry dynamics across customer preferences, segment characteristics, evolving trends and competitive dynamics.
Advantage Building: Strategy must build not merely articulate competitive advantage. Healthy strategy makes "big bets" that develops differentiation or scale compared to competitors.
Adaptive: The speed of market and industry change requires that organisational strategy is a iterative process capable of identifying and capturing opportunities as they arise.
Resilient: Business is a multiplayer game on a three dimensional playing field - great strategy has been stress tested to check it can stand up to unexpected attacks and shocks.
Organisationally Aligned: Strategy can only ever be effective if the organisation has been aligned to it. This means alignment of projects, resources, incentives and messaging.
Execution Ready: An execution ready strategy is accompanied by a detailed implementation plan, comprehensive change program and a single minded executive determination to bring the strategy to life.
