The Foundation – Strategy Bootcamp
We recommend that all our engagements begin with our 2-day Strategy Bootcamp. This includes an on-site business review, followed by our planning event with two of GoCap’s senior team, working with you, your leadership team and key appointed staff.
We make sure the long term goal is in place, set key accountable measures and then bring focus to the next quarter to make sure momentum is build and any obstacles are identified. To make sure you and your team are on the same page – we document this into our unique one page strategic plan.
While we like to begin our engagements here (as you get immediate impact and we get to understand your business really well and can then provide the right growth advice), the Strategy Bootcamp delivers value in its own right and it ideal for organisations who:
- are on a high growth trajectory and want to accelerate that growth or
- haven’t had an organised planning session and feel it is time to get their team on the same page or
- have stagnated growth and need fresh vision and innovation or
- are about to embark on raising capital and need to get in shape in preparation or
- have raised capital and need to execute on your promises to your stakeholders or
- considering investing in another organisation and need input as part of the due diligence process.
One Page Strategic Plan
The key deliverable from the facilitated Strategy Bootcamp is the One Page Strategic Plan. Based on the market leading Gazelles methodology, the plan ensures that everyone is focused literally on the same page. It covers:
- The Mt Everest goal you are climbing
- Your core values (the things that define what you should and shouldn’t do)
- Your Purpose (why you do what you do)
- Your key profitability measure
- Your key financial targets
- Your strengths and weaknesses
- The moving trends that impact your business
- The quarterly focus and the measure of success
- Key measurable accountabilities
- The obstacles that will stop you achieving success
Business Review
In preparing for the Strategy Bootcamp we complete a Business Review to feed into he process and help us understand where your business is currently at.
If you are an existing business this includes online staff, and if appropriate board surveys. We do this across elements of strategy, leadership, data, information technology, people, customers, innovation, quality, success and sustainability. In addition we review proviso planning documentation and historical financial statements.
Where an organisation is an early stage we apply our New Business Review which assess the business across the following elements:
- Team
- Organisation
- Market
- Product
- Finance
- Technology
Realtime Collaboration Tools
We maximise group input into the Strategy Bootcamp by using GroupMap – an online tool for real-time collaboration and decision making. It allows individuals to have a space to think – and then we can aggregate their input to group perspective. This ensures no one dominates the conversation, quiet people’s ideas get heard, we document the process as we go and we can provide an audit trail of the decision making process.
