Business Strategy

CiKATA offers a strategic framework that creates an integrated set of choices to position your organization to deliver sustainable advantage and superior value over your competition.

What is Strategy?

Think of strategy first and foremost as a problem solving tool

Strategy is not complex but it can be more challenging than necessary.  It's challenging because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future and that is something that doesn't come naturally in most organizations. CiKATA shows how leaders in organizations of all shapes and sizes can guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success - where to play and how to win.

How to Win!

Strategy has nothing to do with strategic planning. In this video, Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy, debunks this common organizational trap.

CiKATA’s Strategic Playbook

  • Framework

    Benefit from a strategic framework that is easy to design and implement at the department, function or enterprise level. CiKATA’s default framework is similar to the “Playing to Win” framework sprinked with a touch of Lean Enterprise.

  • Choices

    Realize a business strategy that delivers an integrated set of choices that uniquely positions your organization to deliver sustainable advantage and superior value over your competition.

  • Process

    Strategy is not a plan, it’s a process. Transform your strategy from an annual brainstorming session into an active portfolio of strategic choices validated by a your organization’s strategic scorecard.

  • Playbook

    Improve your strategic governance model with a playbook that is responsive to forces both internal and external to the organization. Lean Enterprise principles compliment the playbook throughout the strategic planning and execution cycle.

Are you planning ?

or winning?

Let’s discuss how we can transform your strategy from an annual event to a process that is proven to deliver sustainable and unique value in the market place.