Consulting in master plan : our positioning
Consulting in master plan : approach and content
In order to support their medium – long term development, companies wish to significantly transform the organization and resources of some of their activities. Akeance Consulting has developed a strong expertise in the realization of master plans based on a methodology that is defined by the parallel application of two approaches :
- an approach based on the optimization of the existing situation with short and medium term actions to conduct;
- and an approach based on converting the company’s strategic objectives into medium and long-term actions.
Concretely, for one or all of the company’s activities, we first formalize the company’s strategic objectives and challenges in order to determine the target it wishes to achieve within a 3 – 5 year timeframe.
Then, we elaborate the different trajectory scenarios to follow, with their transformation stages, in order to go from the existing situation to the target. Finally, based on the scenario approved by the company, we write the roadmaps consisting of the different projects to be carried out with their implementation plans and the critical path to follow.
In the end, we will have created a Master Plan for the company with the definition of :
- the target to reach;
- the trajectory to follow with the projects to be carried out and the transformation stages to reach;
- the roadmaps for each project (scope, human and financial resources to commit, actions, responsibilities, deadlines, etc.).
Consulting in master plan : some convictions
The "upstream" phase of reflection about the scale of the medium term activity is often underestimated
The scenarios and associated trajectories must be sufficiently differentiating
The purpose of a master plan is to take a high-level view and have a 5-year vision of the company or at least of one of its activities. This is why it is necessary to avoid the trap of scenarios that are not sufficiently differentiating, which are sometimes “high and low versions” rather than proper scenarios. These scenarios must refer to differentiated visions of business development.