Future By Design

Strategic Audit. Conducting a strategic audit (in essence, How clearly do you know your company's future (do you have a realistic and shared vision)? Do you have the right knowledge and processes in place to communicate this to everyone in the organization and get them to implement that vision successfully?) The audit is a scorecard that tells you how you rate in this area
Strategic Planning. Designing and facilitating the strategic-planning process (whether you have done strategic planning before or not, this process guarantees you will choose the best strategy and get buy-in from all affected individuals), including preparing for the process and implementation follow-up
Strategic Thinking. Fostering strategic thinking in the organization (without an ability to come up with alternative strategies and business models, any strategic planning you do will be suboptimal)
Implementation Planning. Developing operational plans and assisting with implementation and control (the best strategies and plans are useless if they cannot be implemented smoothly, quickly, and successfully)
Training. Providing training in strategic analysis and planning and other management functions and disciplines (everyone should use shared terminology and the same framework to minimize semantic and communication problems, and better understand what colleagues do in different functional areas)
Management Assessment. Providing a confidential assessment of management (or a particular manager) for the CEO or board of directors (a tricky area, but less so if the right questions are asked by someone experienced)
Company Analysis. Analyzing a company and its prospects for merger/acquisition purposes (with particular reference to the top five reasons why mergers/acquisitions
fail)
Assistance with Decisionmaking. Assistance in thinking through the pursuit of an opportunity or the commercialization of a technology or high-tech product or process
Assistance with Presentations or Reports. Assistance in preparing persuasive presentations for a variety of specific audiences (e.g., board of directors, investors) and critical reports
Business-Plan Preparation. Assistance in preparing all facets of a business plan for a startup or emerging company (reviewing, researching, and/or writing)