In turbulent times, companies must become as efficient at strategy renewal as they are at producing today's products and services. Sapience provides a number of event-driven business strategy processes for the CEO and executive team in the area of strategy innovation, also called strategy resilience. We help our clients develop the capability to have continuous business model innovation and strategies as competitive circumstances change. The focus is on developing the capability to continually anticipate and adjust to deep, secular trends that can permanently impair the earning power of a core business. It's about having the capacity to change even before the case for change becomes obvious.

Strategy Offerings:

Innovation Diagnosic

The Innovation Diagnostic is the first step in building a culture that embraces, applies and supports innovation as a key driver of competitive advantage. Sapience's proprietary diagnostic makes a quantitative and qualitative assessment of an organization's innovation effectiveness along eight key dimensions, identifying the ways in which current organizational structures, practices and cultural norms enable or inhibit successful innovation. Download a PDF brochure on this topic>

Strategic Visioning

Strategy visioning involves defining your future vision and creating a portfolio of phased strategies to enable breakthrough business success (in growth, market share, and leadership position). Our Strategy Horizon Process provides you with a customer-driven future vision supported by value propositions across multiple time horizons leading up to your vision. A "strategy roadmap" specifies the capabilities you need to deliver the greatest value to your customers and outlines a clear path to industry leadership.

Implementation Road-mapping

Even with a clearly articulated strategy, the success of your strategy will depend on the degree to which the '30,000-foot' is translated into integrated functional roadmaps. This planning methodology translates high level initiatives into a roadmap that forces the leadership team to rationalize resources, ensure shared ownership of all initiatives, and develop a balanced scorecard 'dashboard'' to monitor progress. Download a PDF brochure on this topic >

Scenario Planning

This is an innovative tool for identifying key environmental uncertainties, understanding the future trends and potential discontinuities that will have significant impact on your business, and shaping strategy. The process includes creating an ongoing capability for tracking and quickly responding to positive or detrimental changes in your competitive environment. Scenario Planning strengthens your organization's agility in responding to changes in the business environment.

Industry Expert Panel

This is a tool to rapidly understand market, customer, and technology trends. Panel members are drawn from a variety of industries internationally recognized for their experience and knowledge. The project includes recruitment of expert panel members, design, coordination and facilitation of plenary session, idea capture and recording, and follow up with executive team to review outcomes and strategic implications (strategic choice development and planning based on results of the session objectives).

Strategic Innovation Workshop Series

The Strategic Innovation Workshop Series delivers best practices knowledge combined with practical tools and applied problem solving. These highly interactive workshops focus on participants' specific needs and create preliminary solutions to high-priority business issues. The format is flexible – every workshop can be designed to address the unique issues facing cross-functional teams, divisions, function or business units, or groups of individuals from different organizations.  Download a PDF brochure on this topic >