Strategic Planning Difficulties?

The Promises

Last year we were late getting our plan done. This year we will do better.
Last year we didn't follow our plan very well. This year we will do better.

The Gripes

I wish the planning process would just give me something useful.
This is not a strategic plan, it is just an operational plan.

The Intent

Where is the customer influence in our strategic plan?
How are we supposed to prioritize all of these strategic actions?

The Innocence

How come when I give the customer what they ask for, they don’t like it?
We seem to make a lot of last minute changes.

Who can you turn to?

What’s wrong is in your strategic planning process.

Industry today demands new levels of planning efforts that you can’t achieve with the processes of yesterday.

You are expected to use cross-functional design teams, to excite and delight your customers, with breakthrough ideas, all cheaper, faster, and better.

How can you consistently provide the greatest value to your customers reliably and ahead of the competition while maintaining profitability?

Why does it seem like everybody has their own point of view and sometimes we don’t seem to even be talking about the same strategies or plans?

Master Plan (MP) results in your cross-functional planning teams having a clear, aligned, and well-documented understanding of why they are doing what they are doing. This shared understanding helps you plan effectively and create a customer focused value delivery culture.

• It brings the customer deep into your entire organization in an
  understandable format.
• It moves your mind-set from information exchange to understanding
  creation while keeping a strategic view of your efforts.
• It also produces a synergy in the cross-functional planning team that leads
  to reduced cost, shorter time to market, and better quality processes.
• It helps you integrate problem prevention attitudes across your
  functional boundaries.

 ViewPoint & Understanding Enhancement (VUE) is the world leader in teaching cross-functional teams how to understand other points of view when things get complicated.

• You learn how to promote understanding when there is more than one
  point of view.
• You learn how to use ViewPoint to structure your Designed Understanding.
• We adapt the basic structures to your strategic planning process or help
  you to redesign your current process.
• These structures can even begin with small changes to the current process
  and be continually enhanced toward a full system of Customer Focused
  Designed Understanding.

Call Dilworth Lyman today at 513-624-7100 and schedule your assessment.

Return to Home Page