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Dewar Sloan works with management teams and boards to develop ideas for near-term and long-term success.  This is all about 'new school' strategy that shapes organization thought and behavior at every level.  In addition to our work with the Strategic Agenda, we offer services in:

Corporate 'Entreship'

Entreship embodies innovation; it means creating new business elements that build strategic and economic value.  It shows in the inventive work of teams, and under the right conditions, entreship can infuse people and processes across an entire organization.  This is what we call Entreship 3.0 and it impacts the following:

Discovery Practices.... The intensity of exploration and application

Development Portfolio.... The scope of the opportunity pipeline

Structure and Culture.... The function and leverage of people and ideas

Business Evolution.... The sense of urgency for innovation.

 

Strategy Oversight and Governance

We view strategy oversight as a major board responsibility that has become critical.  Corporate and nonprofit oversight requires attention to compliance and operating matters, as well as matters of strategy direction, integration and execution.  Your board can address:

       1.  Strategic Planning                                     2. Planning Disciplines

       3.  Measures and Evaluation                            4. Oversight Processes

Strategy oversight must address the challenges of the organization, the nature of strategy direction and the balance of integration and execution programs.  Effective board oversight is a challenge for corporate, middle-market and nonprofit organizations alike.

 

Category Development

Category development and management is a contemporary alternative to conventional product and brand management practice and "old school" models.  We view a market category as the space in which customers interact with companies to match needs and interests with valuable choices. 

Our strategy work in category development connects four critical subjects with value-generating practices:

  1. Customer Analysis:  Who they are, what they want, how they act.
  2. Product & Service Analysis:  The "portfolio elements" of the market solution.
  3. Competitive Analysis:  Their position and market intentions.
  4. Resource Analysis: The capacity to deliver on value propositions.