Strategy and Initiatives

STRATEGY AND INITIATIVES

Corporate strategy is a series of decisions the company makes for the future. These decisions encompass firms’ strategic actions with the aim of achieving company goals while gaining competitive advantage.

However, several researches of Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Gartner show that corporate strategy still encounters many implementation challenges.

THE KEY QUESTION: HOW?

“A good plan that hasn’t gone into action is worse than having no plans at all.”

According to HBR research 77% of successful organizations translate their strategy in to operational mechanisms and monitor day-to-day progress.

As a result oriented strategic transformation company, Sistema’s work has been success engineering for over 23 years.

Success Engineering enables sustainable results by effectively defining, deploying and monitoring the corporate strategy facilitated by Sistema’s success partners’ platforms and services.

Strategic objectives need to be planned, managed and monitored from the highest level. These need to be engaging, inspiring by all the stakeholders so that they can be cascaded effectively throughout the whole organization.

It is essential to measure the performance of the metrics associated with strategic initiatives on an individual basis.

Strategic initiatives are the bridges between strategic goals/objectives and metrics/KPI’s.

Strategic initiatives should be linked to at least one goal/objective and their budgets, milestones and completion against deadlines need to be monitored together with those linkages.

For this reason, it is essential to create a highly visible and measurable structure with a holistic approach in order to ensure that strategic goals are achieved.

Shifting from strategy to practice is a special process that requires synchronization of different steps. These phases that Sistema orchestrates are listed as:

Strategic Planning & Deployment Health Check / Maturity Assessment
Strategic Management Platform Implementation for a Collaborative, Visible, Live Strategic Management
Interim Program Management
Building The Corporate Strategy Map
Defining The High Level Corporate Scorecard
Cascading Down The High Level Corporate Scorecard To Unit/Individual Scorecards

Sistema has been a long term business partner that has helped us manage complex global strategies in terms of both strategic design and implementation

Sistema has been a long term business partner that has helped us manage complex global strategies in terms of both strategic design and implementation. In today’s environment which demands a strong ROI on all global projects I am confident that they positively impact our business results. The Sistema team is professional, results oriented and engaging, an expert in process and project management.

Tim Martin

Vice President, Global Sales Development

DHL Express

Sistema played a great role in achieving successful results

At the beginning we were sure of that our transformation program would affect the business results at this level and we have seen that we were not wrong. The project objectives were successfully realized. We have adopted a systematic working approach and gained analytical point of view. Sistema’s experience, professionality, high dedication and the synergy created between our team and Sistema team played a great role in achieving these results.

Assistant General Manager of Sales and Customer Services

European International Logistics Company

Massive input to our corporate transformation

You provide massive input to our corporate transformation. I am also grateful to those who introduced Sistema to us.

Board Member of Leading Residential Construction Company

We gained the capability to monitor company strategy

We were aiming at a transparent and intuitive performance management solution for all staff to ensure real time tracking and comparison of metrics at corporate, department and individual level. All our expectations were met after implementation of Strategic Performance Management software by Sistema. We gained the capability to measure and monitor individual responsibility and contribution to company strategy from a single interface.

Assistant General Manager of Leading System Integrator

Sistema enabled us viewing our strategies in different perspectives

Strategic Management Platform implemented by Sistema enables viewing our strategies in different perspectives. We achieve optimization by associating our targets with initiatives and processes; and by detection of positive or negative trends in our strategic targets.

Founder and Managing Partner of Leading Technology Company