Kathy Mast Consulting

Strategic Planning

This week marks the beginning of the last month of the second quarter, which will, with its passing, bring us to the mid-point for the year. This is an appropriate time to review business accomplishments to date against quarterly and annual strategic plans and goals. Yes, I know. Some of us, perhaps most, would rather visit the dentist (no disrespect to the profession) than review strategy, goals and competitive positions for our companies. While I am energized when I work with clients on their goals for business, technology and creating a future-focused foundation, I, too, encounter thoughts of procrastination when it comes to examining my own business. As I began writing this, I received an email newsletter from BPM Express stating that "financial and operational performance management activities must derive from corporate strategy to be effective, [but]...a growing body of research indicates that despite all the exposure they've had to this argument, many executives still fail to adequately think through their strategy. And many of those that do strategize successfully fail to execute on the outcome of that process."

KMC Consulting Services

When your company's demand for change exceeds your ability to respond, or to reach a new level of organizational effectiveness and responsiveness in sustaining a global competitive advantage, KMC provides the following services:

Collaborate with clients to create or confirm business strategy for major change initiatives including MA&D, business process design, I/T system replacements or enhancements and global business expansion or alliances

Enhance use and return for I/T investments through analysis, assessments, and planning

Achieve fast innovation for products and services through design of new, customized or enhanced business processes

Create work breakdown structure, resource alignment recommendations and management services from design to successful solution delivery

Provide knowledge and best practices through industry-leading research

Business solution design and re-engineering, structuring and managing work and cross-functional team building and collaboration