Consultancy services within Strategy

CANEA offers qualified management consultancy services within the strategy area. Our experienced strategy consultants help management groups establish effective strategy work and develop analyses and decision bases for different strategic issues.

CANEA's services within the strategy area

CANEA offer a wide range of management consultancy services within the strategy area. Over the years, we have helped management groups for small and large organisations analyse complex strategic problems and assisted them with establishing effective strategy work with documented good results. Each organisation's situation and circumstances are unique and we go carefully through these together with the management group prior to each strategy assignment so as to be able to contribute exactly the right range of services. Below is a selection of the services with which CANEA can help your organisation within the strategy area.

Establish effective strategy work

It is a well-known fact that organisations with a clearly expressed vision, established values and a clear strategy are more successful than organisations without a strategic direction. It is therefore perhaps the most important task of the board, CEO and management group to establish a well-functioning strategic plan. Our experience shows that it is the management group that has the greatest knowledge of the organisation, its customers, market and situation. Despite this there are astonishingly few organisations where the management group has a well-functioning strategic plan. This can result from many things. It can be a question of an entirely new management group or that the people in the management group come from different backgrounds and find it difficult to find a shared language and forms for the strategy work.

CANEA helps CEOs and management groups to structure and introduce effective strategy work with well-proven methods. We give the management group a strategic framework - i.e., a shared language, approach and tool, adapted to the business.

To establish a well-functioning strategic plan is an investment well worth the money!

Support for strategic overview and strategic analysis

In preparation for certain situations and occasions, the management group needs to carry out a strategic overview or analysis of the business. On some such occasions it can be a good idea for the CEO and management group to enlist external help from management consultants in terms of methodology and project management support.

Our experienced strategy consultants help management groups to assess and define the strategic issues, often with assistance from internal analysis of the organisation's circumstances, business intelligence and benchmarking.

Carry out strategic assessments, investigations and analyses

When the management group does not have the time, resources or expertise, or where it requires an independent analysis of a strategic issue, it can be a good investment to enlist the help of an experienced management consultant.

CANEA carries out these types of special investigations and analyses at the request of CEOs and management groups. We help you with aspects such as scenario analysis, economic evaluation of different alternatives and projects, strategic risk analysis, benchmarking against similar companies or competitors, etc.

Support in business planning

Our experienced strategy consultants help you to structure the business planning process and support you during the actual process. We support management groups in areas such as methods to develop and analyse the basis for business planning, define suitable goals and formulate action plans. We also support management groups with risk analysis and proven methods for the implementation and follow-up of business plans.

Training for management groups in strategy and strategy work

CANEA offers both open and specially tailored in-house training courses within strategy for those in management groups. It is very important that all those in the management group have good knowledge of strategy work, business planning, risk analysis, different strategic analysis tools, the planning and introduction of management systems, etc. Our training courses build on theory and case studies which are adapted for the company or organisation in question.

Example of the implementation of strategy assignments

Prior to each assignment, CANEA's assignment manager carries out together with the CEO/management group a careful assessment of the type and scope of the support and services required. We would like to point out that CANEA's attitude is that it is the CEO and the management group who have the greatest knowledge of the company, its customers and market, and we use this as the starting point for the assignment.

Another important aspect of our success is that we work together with the organisation's staff, with CANEA contributing the methodology library and the organisation contributing the knowledge of the operation. Our way of working leads to concrete results and simple, achievable proposals for what the organisation/company can do with existing resources.

Areas which CANEA prioritises for achieving an effective change in the client's organisation include:

• Change analysis - a consequence analysis of what the change will mean
• Support from the management - both support that is real but also which the employees feel is present. For the project this may mean, for example, active participation in the steering group.
• Involving the right people - identifying enthusiasts, unofficial leaders and also potential opposition.
• Create understanding and insight - CANEA often uses training as a tool to create insight and understanding regarding the forthcoming change.
• A clear picture of the result - implementation progresses more easily if the employees see what the change will lead to and that it will contribute to reducing their loads rather than increasing them.
• Short victories - to rapidly provide an example of success in a change project is a good way of convincing people and bringing them on board, but also to help them understand the benefit of the changes.