Strategy Formulation

Excellent leaders create conditions for success, establishing a shared sense of purpose and vision throughout their organisation. The development and communication of a strategy is the key mechanism to achieve this, aligning behaviours and guiding decision making.
A strategy sets out the ends to seek and how the organisation will develop an advantage. It also provides guidance on how to pursue these ends through a high level plan that defines how resources will be deployed.

A strategy then is a shared belief in and an active commitment to a compelling picture of the future, it’s not just a document called ‘Strategy’!

TRIMENTIS has helped many leaders at all levels within organisations create the strategies and the tactics for their teams, clarifying and communicating priorities and so bridging between the ends and the means.

Our approach follows our Strategy Formulation Process, one of three processes in our core Management Leadership Process Model. It provides a systematic evidence-based method that has been used to develop powerful enterprise wide, specialist functional, project and team strategies.

Organisational Design

To execute your strategy effectively and achieve your ambitions, your organisational structure must be aligned with your business goals.

Organisations are most effective when they are designed to deliver the strategy, goals and plans. Working with the detailed needs of the strategy and business plan that set out the required types and numbers of competencies, effective teams also take account of the culture of the organisation and the availability of key resources.

Design of the organisation is all too often either left well alone because of the negative aspects of power politics, or is completed as a basis for growing the power base of select individuals and teams. A recipe for excess overhead costs and poor performance if ever there was one!

There is common sense in the saying that ‘form follows function’. Performance-leading organisations align themselves to their customers, both internal and external.

TRIMENTIS has delivered radical performance improvements for organisations simply by aligning their people and teams to better serve their customers. We encourage an open-minded approach to organisational design, exploiting the knowledge of the client’s people and involving them in thinking innovatively to transform their capability.

Process Development

Organisations exist to create value for their stakeholders. Value is created as a result of linked activities that can best be described as processes.

Process Development is a critical success factor in the design and ongoing management and improvement of performance leading work environments.

We once had the privilege to meet the distinguished Professor of International Marketing Philip Kotler over dinner at the Ritz in London. He set out a very simple yet profound approach to process development. He said that everyone works in a process, there are only three processes, and you can only work in one of them at a time. His three processes were market development, product development and operational development.

If we could have 10 Euros for every manager that has told us that their work is too complex or creative to be thought of as a process, then we could afford be on permanent holiday in the sunshine.

Performance Leadership is promulgated on the basis of a systematic, strategic approach to process development. TRIMENTIS has learnt from some of the world’s leading authorities, and has extensive hands on senior line management and consulting experience in developing innovative, empowering, flexible, responsive, customer focused and outcomes driven work environments in which experts thrive.

Yes, we can get passionate about processes! They are simply too critical to success not to be treated with a passion.