A strategic plan has little value unless it
is translated into actionable projects with attainable goals. MESA
structures and leads a process to convert the strategic plan and core
initiatives into an articulated architecture for implementation. We
will help you decompose your initiatives into a roadmap of specific
projects and define the scope, goals, ownership, costs and resource
requirements of each project. Resource constraints become a reality at
this stage and projects must be evaluated and prioritized, and tradeoffs
must be made to operate within those constraints. Key prioritization
decisions must be made and an
orderly process is critical to success.
Many benefits arise from using an enterprise
perspective during projectization. We will work with your team to projectize your strategic plan and to define which elements should be managed at the enterprise level and which should be
managed at a lower level. We will assist you in preparing a project
management master plan, priorities, and a management structure for
implementation.
The business model and resource requirements
of each initiative and project will be defined in sufficient detail to determine the
financial implications, to allow evaluation and prioritization of options,
and to set budgets for implementation of the plan. MESA works
with our client’s financial team to identify and model revenue streams,
resource requirements and other required expenditures.
MESA also assists the Company to articulate the plan and align
leadership resources with the plan. We assist in structuring and hosting
meetings with business units and managers who will implement or interact with
the plan to add additional detail, fine tune and adjust the plan as needed.
These meetings serve to review, validate and confirm each of the elements of the
strategic plan with the extended management team.
We have identified a series of factors that have the most
impact on an organization’s ability to achieve successful business
transformation. We will review a series of cultural factors, decision-making
characteristics, organizational dynamics, and other factors that impact
transformation and we will review the likely effectiveness of the specific roles
that are essential to successful transformation. These roles include that of the CEO, COO
or equivalent, CTO, strategic human resource leadership and program management
leaders. We will also examine the company’s performance management system, and
we will review in detail the company’s ability and capability for collaborative
performance at various levels within the organization. By identifying and
addressing gaps in transformation capability, we can reduce the cost, accelerate
progress and raise the bar for transformation results. In some cases, we may
suggest that the firm is not yet ready to embark on a transformation strategy.
We have performed enterprise-wide strategic planning efforts
for a number of Fortune 100 companies and can help you to prepare a
program master plan to coordinate all the phases of your transformation from the
planning phase through the execution phase. Our team will help you to
design and deploy an architecture master plan and lead you through the program
management process.
Your leadership development
program should focus more on enterprise development than on executive
development. Today’s leaders must focus their entrepreneurial energies on
enterprise goals and strategies. Embedding the enterprise goals, strategies,
values, philosophies, practices and more into your emerging leaders should be
the central goal of your leadership development activity. Competencies and
capabilities should be thought of as enterprise resources, not the domain of
individual executives. Build leadership development programs that focus on
corporate identity and enterprise strategies.
We have developed frameworks
for corporate performance management systems that tie compensation to performance
metrics, encourage innovation and support the corporate vision and
identity. We will show you
these frameworks
and help you incorporate them into your own management system.
