Briefing Notes: A Summary of Best Practice Approaches in Strategic Planning Processes

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This document provides a brief overview of current best practices for managers to consider in their strategic planning processes.

BestPract.pdf   [214.15 Kb]

Strategy Diagnostics at CFAR

 CFAR Inc.

Description: CFAR's strategy work with clients begins with a diagnosis of current strategy which seeks to understand first the leaders' perspectives on the business and the top team dynamics, then deepens that understanding with an in-depth analysis of the business' actual results. The strategy story which emerges articulates the current state of the business and provides a powerful basis for setting the organization's future direction.

stratdia.pdf   [121.17 Kb]

CFAR's Approach to Strategy Development

 CFAR Inc.

Description: Strategy development gives guidance to leaders and employees about what the firm does and how it creates value for customers and shareholders. This document outlines the guiding principles of CFAR's strategy work with clients.

stratdev.pdf   [104.65 Kb]

Briefing Notes: What is Strategic Thinking

 CFAR Inc.

Description: Strategic thinking is a way of understanding the fundamental drivers of a business and rigorously (and playfully) challenging conventional thinking about them, in conversation with others. This briefing note explains strategic thinking and the processes that should guide its use.

strathink.pdf   [143.02 Kb]

Telling the Story Approach to Strategy

 CFAR Inc.

Description: This document provides a high-level overview of CFAR's approach to strategy. We compare the stories that people tell themselves about the business with the story that the numbers tell, and work with top teams to reconcile the two and the resulting consequences for action. Included are short descriptions of the work in each phase.

TSS.pdf   [38.91 Kb]

Strategic Options: A CFAR Tool to Sharpen Strategy

 CFAR Inc.

Description: CFAR maintains that strategy is what you do, not what you say. This piece gives a brief overview of Strategic Options, one tool in CFAR’s approach to strategy.

StratOpt.pdf   [317.05 Kb]