Services Overview

Your Company Wants to Grow. All companies face transition periods.  We have a unique process to work through these periods of uncertainty and change—by asking the right questions and gaining access to the answers.

Our research, analysis, and strategic growth options development work is most effective when we are helping a client that is facing a period of significant change, transition, or uncertainty.  These changes may be internal to the company, or they may be brought on by external forces (customers, suppliers, competitors, market dynamics).  They may be positive in nature (we have some growing pains, we need to prioritize all of the opportunities we see) or negative (we are not growing as fast as we should be, we are concerned about a significant new threat to our business model).  Having offered insights to help many clients grow and thrive during their strategic transitions, we recognized that there are actually five types of transitions:

  • What is reality, and where do we fit in the big picture of our market?
  • Plan to grow – strategically, tactically, with metrics and measures of our success.
  • Grow now – organically or via acquisition.
  • Acknowledge the elephant and fix the problem.
  • Exit or divest a business unit.

Acclaro employs a proprietary model that combines a disciplined framework with a creative, ideation approach to achieve the optimal formula for each client.  The following steps illustrate the types of activities involved in a typical engagement:

Landscape
Mapping

  • Clarify the corporate goal
  • Define the issues preventing achievement of the goal

Governing Factors
  • In an experiential dialog, break the issues down into discrete questions that must be answered in order to make decisions
  • Gather data
  • Turn data into organized intelligence
  • Turn intelligence into analysis by looking for surprises, inconsistencies, gaps, themes

Scorecard
  • Assess, diagnostically, the Company’s performance, capabilities, and competencies, internally. 

Options
  • Turn analysis into options for decisions to impact the issues described in number 2
  • In an experiential format, ideation exercise, prioritize options based on external awareness and internal competencies, management passions, etc.

Process Guidance
  • Turn strategy into highly actionable initiatives, with tactics, timelines, champions, and metrics/measures
  • Continuously gather insights, external and internal, to assess required changes to the strategy and tactics, on an ongoing basis