Strategy & Innovation
We lead and help government agencies, corporates and nongovernmental organizations to realize, seize, and sustain competitive advantage positions in their areas of operations. Strategy advisory remains our core niche of expertise and practice in different industries in East Africa.
Board Services
We have always assisted boards of directors/management to improve on the effectiveness through capacity building and development of new insights…
Board Services
It begins at the top
We have always assisted boards of directors/management to improve on the effectiveness through capacity building and development of new insights.
Through experience and research, an effective board of directors/management has clarity of where their company or organization creates value proposition, the enterprise or organization potential risks, and the strategy road map.
Such boards have the capacity to make decisions on resource allocation, institute robust communication and feedback systems, and introduce real-time debate for alternative strategies to evaluate trends and challenges of uncertainties and deliberate issues where the significant value is implemented by the CEO and his team.
Contrary, ineffective boards have no focus on creating value for fiduciary activities and responsibilities because they concentrate and emphasize on short-term financial returns and results. Our experts help to bridge this ineffectiveness by improving the collaboration between the boards, management, strategy definition, and corporate direction.
CEO Advisory Services
Our CEO and C-Suite executive coaching are designed and dedicated to develop top executive’s full potential by coaching them to focus,…
CEO Advisory Services
Sharp industry captains
Our CEO and C-Suite executive coaching are designed and dedicated to develop top executive’s full potential by coaching them to focus, think, and act beyond existing limits and paradigms. We help executives identify and realize their strengths in the areas of development, review and examine the impact of their decision and behavior on others, and constantly deliberate and reflect on their values and goals effectiveness.
Our focus is to help the CEOs to develop strategy that builds leadership and management strength since it is their core mandate. These services are highly tailored and confidential-learning processes conducted by our dedicated executive consultants who have coached and trained many corporate executives in the East Africa region.
Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy defines the overall value of the entire business enterprise as a whole more than the sum total of the business units. We help business …
Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy defines the overall value of the entire business enterprise as a whole more than the sum total of the business units. We help business enterprises and government agencies to develop competitive winning corporate strategies by focusing on what matters to them, especially on the value creation in three important areas. We start from a clear definition by setting a shared long-term plan and vision that drives the team, engages stakeholders, investors, and customers. We then ask where do we want to be in three, five, or ten years from now? Secondly, we define a portfolio strategy to realize the envisioned goals, by answering which businesses should we be in and how will we grow and expand? Finally, we establish the required corporate policies and processes that reflect the corporation's parenting approach. At this level, we link strategy to value creation. Today corporate strategy is a continuous process since the operating environment is changing and competitive hence there is a constant need to monitor so as to deliver value.
We help clients to advance performance across their existing portfolio while highlighting opportunities for expansion and growth in new enterprise horizons or where they may require cutting back or divesting. From our experience and practice, we are able to uniquely position corporations/organizations through strategic advisory on a fine-grained share combination of business segments and markets that creates value to them.
Business Unit Strategy
We have a profound experience of supporting business leaders in making bold strategic moves, blended with unparalleled practical insights, to …
Business Unit Strategy
The artistic game of ‘real’ strategy
We have a profound experience of supporting business leaders in making bold strategic moves, blended with unparalleled practical insights, to position, beat and prevail over existing and potential business rivals.
Business context today is turbulent and unpredictable- characterized by digital disruption, Covid 19 Pandemic and ever blurring industry boundaries. Designing and executing a superior strategy is complex and hard than ever before. A sound business unit strategy is a significant complement to corporate strategy. The entirety of corporate strategy is about optimization of capital allocation in all business strategic units in the enterprise; whereas, the cardinal role of business unit strategy is to primarily decide on how best to utilize capital resources to create unique value to satisfy the diverse needs of targeted or chosen customers - better with the best profit -margin.
Successful Business Unit Strategy is Fundamentally Anchored on
Business Context: It all about understanding and mastering your business context and potential vectors of disruption and where current and future profit …
Successful Business Unit Strategy is Fundamentally Anchored on
Business Context: It all about understanding and mastering your business context and potential vectors of disruption and where current and future profit pools will evolve from? And answering what and which strategy is likely to deliver a superior win?
Competitive Advantage: The clarity that compels leadership to execute business brands and proper understanding of the internal business strength and challenges to overcome and attain uniqueness in productivity, cost management advantage, superb capabilities, digital enhancement advantage, intellectual property, and corporate ecosystem.
Execution Capability: An operational direct link and aligned agile connection between strategy and business operation components activities. The general structure interlinking strategy goals, communication models, and feedback channels of evaluating performance.
Strategic Planning
“The science and art of formulating manageable and implementable business strategies, and evaluating their impact based on organizational …
Strategic Planning
“The science and art of formulating manageable and implementable business strategies, and evaluating their impact based on organizational objectives through the integration of various business units from finance and accounting, research and development (R&D), production, marketing, IT systems and management to achieve business goals.” Chief Strategy Officer- James Kiilu.
Strategic planning process must be insightful and responsive to the business operating environment. From our experience and research, there is a common misconception that strategic planning is just about ‘annual budgets and three-or- five-year-plans’. Many organizations are dissatisfied with the way they end up making their strategy because strategic-planning approach is always routine, rigid, mechanical, bureaucratic, reactive, and disconnected with business realities to implement. With these facts on business context plus digital disruptions, many organizations are uncertain of their adopted processes, whether they can position them to harness long-term value creation.
How we unpack strategic-planning- in four ways
- Strategy exploration at different timeline: This applies to short, medium and long term needs to be addressed.
- Innovation to inspire strategic dialogue regularly: This guarantees strategy process doesn’t fall prey to the law of diminishing since there’s a lot of repetition and the exercise can become stale.
- Broad engagement beyond scope of focus: We bring in expertise to get perspective from the central strategy team to board members to business leaders, stakeholders, customers, and suppliers to help broaden and boost agility for better strategy execution.
- Execution orientedness and monitoring: Setting priorities, strategic initiatives, and tracking performance with clear communication feedbacks.
Innovation
Optimization of technology evolution to maximize returns on investment …
Innovation
Optimization of technology evolution to maximize returns on investment
Business of Innovation
Technology landscape is volatile and evolving with new knowledge every day. More than ever, innovators are facing new trend across different sectors, from the emerging solutions, new business models, as well as different business challenges.
Innovation to support policies and business ecosystems
Business leaders have task and duty to translate or convert big data into trade, best global supply chain, market-based trend technology through innovation. Our experts help and provide best business perspective on what the enterprises; organizations, governments can do to support entrepreneurship, attract foreign investment through technology transfer, facilitate new technology deployment, and institute domestic innovation.
Technology transfer-diffusion
With elaborative case studies, we reveal factors that lead to successful …
Technology transfer-diffusion
With elaborative case studies, we reveal factors that lead to successful technology deployment and prerequisite desired context for policies and business choice options.
Areas of Focus
- Business model innovation
- Management innovation
- New product innovation and development
- Open innovation
- R&D
- Innovation strategy
