Process Overview

Our approach embraces the idea that external consultants (strategic planning “experts”) do not have all of the right answers. Rather, those ideas, innovations, insights, and overall corporate direction come from those who work within the business and intimately understand the nuances of the industry.

Yet, the challenge that most organizations have is leveraging the information they already have. Our Plan4^SM process allows us to extract the right information and makes it useful and usable to develop strategy and tactics to achieve growth and higher profitability for our clients.

Plan4: A planning process that builds sustainable advantages

Plan4 is a business strategic planning and execution governance process that involves an integrated set of actions designed to help companies gain sustainable advantage. Our competitive analysis leverages industry information on the top 10,000 industries, covering more than 95% of the $57 trillion global economy.  Plan4 is comprehensive, adaptable and effective in guiding organizations through strategy formulation, defining strategic goals in support of strategy (key outcomes) and in linking strategy to operational execution across and throughout the enterprise. 

What Method Frameworks and Plan4 can do for your organization

Method Frameworks, using our Plan4 process, lead our clients through an effective and sensible approach to strategic planning that is centered around creating customer value-driven outcomes.  Our process maps out and leverages your business ecosystem as a framework to allow for visualization and understanding of the entire enterprise.  This unique approach leads to well defined strategy, strategic goals that support all aspects of the strategy and well-planned operational tactics along with plan governance to make sure we deliver plan goal results together.

Plan4 was developed through years of leveraging the most effective approaches in strategic planning industry best practices.  Our innovations in developing Plan4 have led to a truly unique and powerful process to get organizations the planning results they have strived to achieve for years on their own.  Our consulting approach with Plan4 can be introduced in whole or in parts and still dramatically improve strategic outcomes.

 

Most planning efforts fail to deliver the intended results

• The Harvard Business Review estimates the ROI from traditional planning approaches to be 34% or less.  
• The Economist Intelligence Unit estimates that organizations realize just 60% of the potential value of their strategies.  
• Even more startling are statistics from analysts like Kaplan and Norton that suggested that 90% of organizations fail to successfully implement their strategies.

Why does this happen? The reasons vary, but the most common are:

• Poor prioritization
• Lack of detail planning to support plan goal achievement
• Poor communication and coordination
• Strategy and culture misalignment
• Accountability missing from plan goals
• Poor planning governance
• Ill-defined strategic goals
• More art than science in the planning approach
• Failure to define the "real" outcomes in a concise set of statements
• Variability in the plan caused by language
• Failure to define and execute initiatives successfully based on the plan

Don’t become a statistic in the wrong category

We are proud of the results we have accomplished for our clients and will not let them fail to successfully implement their strategies.  Our results are outstanding because we have a culture that is passionate about serving our clients by putting their needs ahead of our own.  Our engagement model provides repeatability and predictability in achieving successful outcomes.  Likewise, our Plan4 strategic planning process is second to none.