Service Offering
Generous Tit-for-Tat (GTFT) Strategy Development
Facilitate workshops or simulations that apply GTFT principles to conflict resolution, negotiation, and cooperative strategies. GTFT, known for promoting cooperation while allowing for occasional forgiveness, can be particularly valuable in competitive market analyses, partnership strategies, and internal team dynamics.
Cross-Impact Analysis for Strategic Planning
Offer services that employ Cross-Impact Analysis to help organizations understand how interconnected factors (e.g., technological advancements, regulatory changes, market shifts) might collectively impact their strategic goals. This approach is vital for scenario planning, risk management, and developing flexible, robust strategies.
System Dynamics & Causal Loop Diagramming (CLD)
Utilize System Dynamics to model and simulate complex systems within an organization's strategy, including feedback loops, time delays, and nonlinearity. Services might focus on long-term policy planning, resource allocation, and anticipating the impact of strategic decisions on organizational behavior and market dynamics.
Scenario Planning & War Gaming
Creation of detailed narratives about the future based on various factors and uncertainties. War gaming is a simulation technique that models competitive scenarios where participants take on roles of competitors or key stakeholders. It's especially useful for testing strategies in a dynamic and competitive environment.
Delphi Method
The Delphi Method is a structured communication technique which relies on a panel of experts. The experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds. After each round, a facilitator provides an anonymous summary of the experts' forecasts and reasons. It's used to achieve a converged opinion on complex problems, making it valuable for strategic planning and forecasting.
Game Theory
Game Theory provides a framework for analyzing situations in which parties, known as players, make decisions that are interdependent. This interdependence causes each player to consider the other player's possible decisions, or strategies, in formulating their own strategy.
Pricing Strategy
Value-Based Pricing: Pricing strategies are to be aligned with the value delivered, especially for services that significantly enhance strategic resilience or uncover novel opportunities.
Project-Based Fees: For specific engagements with a defined scope, such as a System Dynamics simulation or a comprehensive strategic review using Cross-Impact Analysis.
Retainer Models: For ongoing advisory roles, where the consultancy periodically reviews and updates strategic models in light of new data or changes in the operating environment.
Marketing and Sales Plan
Thought Leadership: Publish white papers, case studies, and articles demonstrating the application and benefits of these methodologies in strategic planning.
Seminars and Workshops: Host events focused on strategic innovation, resilience, and adaptability, showcasing your methodologies' value.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with academic institutions, software providers specializing in simulation and modeling, and industry associations to enhance credibility and reach.
Delivery Model
A blend of workshops, simulations, and in-depth consulting projects, utilizing both in-person and digital platforms to engage with client teams. Development of bespoke tools or software that can assist in implementing these methodologies within client organizations. Continuous engagement model that offers periodic reviews, updates, and adjustments to strategies based on emerging trends, data, and outcomes.
Competitive Differentiation
Specializing in a combination of advanced strategic methodologies not commonly offered as a unified service by traditional consulting firms.