Our approach to Business Growth Strategy
In todays competitive environment innovation and technology are disrupting business models. The pace of change in external market conditions is accelerating, as a result businesses need to develop an agile approach to their business growth strategy.
At Shaping Business we provide specialist strategic support using a powerful structured framework and expert facilitation to enable you to plan for growth and execute successfully against that plan.
Without a coherent strategy that is in line with the current market trends and is continually monitored/adjusted, your business begins to lose direction.
This will result in the loss of market share, plateauing sales revenues or even retrenchment.
"Strategy without tactics is a slow route to victory...
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat"
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Businesses that live their strategy have clarity of direction, established priorities and a market focus that delivers sustainable business growth.
How we do it
At Shaping Business, we collaboratively work with senior stakeholders of your business using a successful, structured framework and methodology to develop a clear and focused business growth strategy.
Using our experience of working with professional services and technology firms we provide independent practical advice evidenced with market data to formulate a strategy that is achievable and aligned with your business growth aspirations.
We use a structured framework that enables you to develop...
+ Business growth strategy based on business and market intelligence
+ Business improvement programme to enable you to achieve your strategy
+ Risk management plan to identify, evaluate & mitigate business risks
+ Action plan to convert that strategy into action and execute on it
We use a structured framework that enables you to develop...
+ A strategy based on business and market intelligence
+ Business improvement programme to enable you to achieve your strategy
+ Risk management plan to identify, evaluate & mitigate business risks
+ Action plan to convert that strategy into action and execute on it
Using our experience of working with professional services and technology firms we provide independent practical advice evidenced with market data to formulate a strategy that is achievable and aligned with your business growth aspirations.
Our business growth strategy will enable you to:
Establish clear and financially quantifiable business growth objectives
Develop a focused future strategic direction for the business
Benchmark your existing business and develop a roadmap for on-going improvement programmes to support the business growth strategy
Identify changing market trends that may impact your business
Identify growth constraints and risks, and establish plans to address/mitigate them
Produce insightful analysis of the evolving competitive market landscape
Establish the key differentiators for your business
Define and prioritise areas of growth for the business including target markets
Establish management and governance frameworks to continuously monitor implementation of the strategic plans.
Determine the resourcing profile/budgetary requirements to deliver the growth strategy
Our experienced team can help you in developing an achievable strategy that provides direction and facilitates managed execution to deliver sustainable growth.
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I am impressed by the level of detail and the effort that has gone into producing our Marketing Plan. This gives us a clear programme to execute over the next year.
CEO, Management Consultancy
Shaping Business is ahead of the curve when it comes to strategy development. The frameworks and methodologies you are using are really impressive!
CEO, Professional Services Firm
I hadn't appreciated the value in having someone outside the business really challenge our thinking. We simply wouldn't have got the quality of output without Shaping Business's involvement.
High-Tech Equipment Distribution
I knew we needed help to develop our strategy. What I hadn’t appreciated was the value in having someone outside the business really challenge our thinking. We wouldn’t have got to this point without your involvement.
Managing Director, High-Tech Distributor