A Simple, Powerful Approach to Strategic Planning
Is your company’s strategic plan too complex, unclear, or ineffective?
Most strategic frameworks are difficult to explain, impossible to implement, and quickly forgotten. That’s where Group50® comes in. We take a simplified, results-driven approach that aligns every stakeholder—owners, board members, employees, customers, and suppliers—under a clear roadmap to success.
With Group50’s Where to Play and How to Win Strategy Framework, you’ll get a one-page, easy-to-understand strategic plan that everyone in your organization can rally behind. No jargon, no confusion—just a clear path to success.
Why Most Strategies Fail—And How We Fix It
Many strategic plans fail before they even get started because they lack three key elements:
The Most Important Goal (MIG)
Your company needs one clearly defined metric for success. Whether it’s increasing enterprise value by 250%, quadrupling sales, or doubling cash flow, every decision and action should drive this goal. What’s your MIG?
Where to Play
Too many companies chase too many markets. We help you define your best opportunities, identifying the right customers, markets, and distribution channels to focus on—ones that align with your MIG. Are you playing in the right market?
How to Win
Your playbook for success. Group50® develops the strategies and tactics that will bridge the gap between your company’s current state and its future vision. Without this, your strategy is just wishful thinking.
Together, these three pillars cut through complexity and provide a straightforward, actionable strategy that your entire company can execute.
What Makes Group50’s Approach Different?
We Go Beyond the Basics to Ensure Execution
Most consulting firms stop at strategy creation—we don’t. We incorporate additional key success factors that ensure flawless execution:
- Leadership Alignment: Does your leadership team have the traits necessary to move from your current state to your future state? We identify gaps and coach your team to lead change.
- Rallying Cry: A simple, powerful message that unites your entire organization behind your strategy. This becomes the battle cry of transformation.
- Value Proposition Clarity: We define why customers choose your business over the competition—and ensure every employee understands how to reinforce that competitive advantage.
- Strategic Business Levers: We pinpoint your biggest strengths—from proprietary technology to market dominance—to ensure they are leveraged to maximize competitive advantage.
- Financial Horizon: Every strategy must have a clear financial impact. We work with leadership to set realistic, measurable financial goals that drive decision-making.
What You Can Expect When Working With Group50®
- Immediate clarity on your company’s Most Important Goal and strategic focus
- Alignment across your entire organization—from leadership to frontline employees
- A simplified, one-page strategic roadmap that every stakeholder understands
- Faster decision-making and better execution by eliminating confusion and competing priorities
- Higher engagement from employees and partners who finally understand their role in company success
- Significant business results—we’ve helped companies unlock millions in revenue growth and cost savings using this framework
Real Results from Real Clients
Case Study #1: Unlocking 30% Productivity Gains in 4 Days
A $25M manufacturer used Group50’s framework to conduct a Quote-to-Cash strategy session. Over 4 days, we identified 160 operational inefficiencies, leading to two major projects that increased internal productivity by 30%.
Case Study #2: $15M Annual Cost Savings
A multinational client applied Where to Play and How to Win across global operations. The result? A $15M reduction in annual costs and a complete realignment of business priorities to better support their Most Important Goal.
Where could your company be leaving money on the table?
The one page view of a company’s strategic plan is simple enough to share with every stakeholder and they can easily see what the objectives of the company are and understand the bigger picture their efforts will help support. In one company we are working with, they are showing this one pager to potential employees and the response has been positive because the candidates see what they are going to become part of, and they believe it demonstrates the company has its act together. Employees want to know the bigger picture and are more engaged when they understand it and have the opportunity to participate in achieving it. Companies with highly engaged employees realize significantly better performance than their competitors as shown in the following graphic from the GALLUP Organization which was compiled for the book: Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs®.
Schedule a Free Consultation Today
Most leadership teams struggle with executing their strategy—not because they lack vision, but because they lack a clear, actionable framework. That’s where Group50® comes in.
If you’re serious about achieving breakthrough results, let’s talk.
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Stop wasting time on strategies that don’t work. Let’s create a roadmap to your success together.
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About the Author: Jim Gitney is the CEO and Founder of Group50® Consulting, and the author of “Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs®” which summarizes a framework for developing and implementing strategy (You can find out more about the book and acquire a copy by clicking on the image to the right).
Founded in 2004, Group50®consulting is focused on working with middle market companies to significantly improve their productivity by leveraging people, process and technology as part of a company’s strategic plan. Business process improvement and process reengineering are Group50® specialties. Group50® consists of consultants who have spent their careers in corporate America learning how to optimize businesses.
We specialize in working with senior leaders to develop and implement programs that leverage people, process and technology to optimize business performance.
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