Strategic planning

How We Work With You

From initial strategic briefings to comprehensive resilience audits and ongoing partnerships—we help you build strategies that survive contact with reality.

Strategic Briefing

Understanding key risks and strategic vulnerabilities in your context

Duration: Initial engagement
Format: Virtual or in-person

What Happens

We discuss your strategic priorities, industry dynamics, and geographic exposure to understand the key risks and impacts most relevant to your situation. This is a substantive conversation focused on your specific context—not a generic framework presentation.

You'll Walk Away With

  • Clear understanding of key risks and impacts in your industry and geographies
  • High-level assessment of your most critical vulnerabilities
  • Initial perspective on strategic options and mitigation approaches
  • Framework for deciding whether deeper diagnostic work makes sense

Ideal For

C-suite executives, Strategy Directors, and operational leaders evaluating major capital investments or facing growing uncertainty in their operating environment.

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Risk Assessment & Mitigation Masterplan

Comprehensive diagnostic delivering actionable resilience strategy

Duration: 3-4 months
Team: Senior advisors + domain specialists

Overview

In a world where uncertainty is the new normal, traditional strategic planning falls short. We deliver a comprehensive diagnostic that identifies, quantifies, and prioritizes your vulnerabilities across physical, structural, technological, and operational domains—then builds an actionable mitigation masterplan grounded in reality.

The Challenge: The rules of the global economy are in flux. Protectionism, fragmentation, volatile commodity markets, and weather-related supply shocks create compounding uncertainties that traditional risk frameworks miss. Strategies built on outdated assumptions are failing.

The Process

1

Discovery & Baseline Assessment

Weeks 1-4

  • Executive and key stakeholder interviews
  • Strategic document and operational data review
  • Critical dependency and single-point failure mapping
  • Current risk exposure baseline across four domains
2

Multi-Domain Risk Analysis

Weeks 5-8

  • Scenario modeling across physical, structural, technological, and operational domains
  • Cascade and compounding effect analysis
  • Vulnerability severity assessment and heatmap development
  • Financial impact quantification and NPV modeling
3

Mitigation Masterplan Development

Weeks 9-12

  • Risk prioritization (likelihood × impact × cascade potential)
  • Mitigation option identification and evaluation
  • Cost-benefit analysis and ROI modeling
  • Phased implementation roadmap with clear milestones
4

Executive Alignment & Delivery

Weeks 13-16

  • Board-ready presentation development
  • Executive team alignment workshop
  • Final masterplan delivery and handoff
  • Implementation support framework

What You Receive

Comprehensive Risk Heatmap

Multi-domain vulnerability mapping with severity scoring, likelihood assessment, and cascade potential across physical, structural, technological, and operational risks

Financial Impact Models

Detailed NPV impact analysis for each major disruption scenario, including direct costs, opportunity costs, and long-term strategic implications

Phased Mitigation Masterplan

Prioritized action roadmap with clear implementation phases, resource requirements, ROI projections, and timeline for each resilience initiative

Critical Dependency Maps

Visual documentation of single-point failures, critical path dependencies, and alternative pathway options across your value chain

Investment Decision Framework

Practical criteria and methodology for evaluating future resilience investments against efficiency trade-offs and strategic priorities

Executive Communication Package

Board-ready presentation deck plus executive summary communicating findings, recommendations, and business case for action

Executive Alignment Workshop

Facilitated session ensuring leadership team alignment on risk priorities, strategic trade-offs, and implementation approach

Implementation Support Framework

Governance structure, KPIs, and monitoring approach to guide successful execution of your mitigation masterplan

Ideal For

  • Organizations facing sustained uncertainty in their operating environment and needing comprehensive risk assessment beyond traditional planning
  • Major capital investment decisions requiring multi-decade ROI confidence in volatile, fragmented global markets
  • Strategic planning cycles where boards and executive teams need to validate assumptions against emerging geopolitical, technological, and supply chain realities
  • Energy-intensive or material-dependent industries facing fundamental shifts in input availability, pricing, or regulatory frameworks
  • Global operations under pressure from protectionism, trade fragmentation, or supply chain disruption requiring regionalization strategies
  • M&A due diligence requiring deeper operational risk assessment and resilience evaluation of target companies
  • Transformation programs where resilience must be designed into the future state, not bolted on afterward

Why This Matters Now: In an era defined by acute uncertainty—subdued economic activity, trade restrictions, weather-related shocks, and dim medium-term growth prospects—strategies based on stability assumptions are obsolete. This engagement builds strategies that survive contact with reality.

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Future Risk Scenarios & Long-Term Masterplan

Prepare for what's coming, not just what's here

Duration: 6-8 weeks
Focus: Forward-looking scenario planning

Overview

Long-term risk scenario modeling and financial impact quantification. We help you understand how emerging trends across the four domains could reshape your operating environment over the next 5-10 years.

What's Included

Scenario Development

  • Multi-domain trend analysis
  • Scenario prioritization by likelihood and impact
  • Cascade effect modeling for each scenario
  • Financial impact quantification

Strategic Adaptation

  • Long-term strategy adjustment recommendations
  • Detailed operational masterplan
  • Phased investment roadmap
  • Early warning indicators for each scenario

Ideal For

  • Capital-intensive industries making long-horizon investments
  • Strategic planning cycles requiring robust scenario planning
  • Board-level strategy reviews needing forward-looking risk assessment
  • Organizations facing fundamental shifts in their operating environment
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LT Risk Delta Monitoring and Adjusted Plan

Continuous vigilance in a changing world

Duration: Continuous
Engagement: Ongoing monitoring and updates

Overview

Continuous monitoring of external risk variance and execution discrepancies versus your plan to update current and future risk levels. We track how the four domains are evolving and help you adjust your strategy accordingly.

What's Included

Continuous Monitoring

  • Quarterly risk variance reports
  • Real-time alerts on material changes
  • Execution tracking versus plan
  • Emerging threat identification

Strategic Updates

  • Annual refresh of long-term strategy
  • Updated masterplan recommendations
  • Revised investment priorities
  • Board presentation support

Ideal For

  • Organizations with multi-year strategic plans needing continuous validation
  • Executive teams wanting ongoing strategic advisory support
  • Boards requiring regular risk landscape updates
  • Companies executing major transformation programs in uncertain environments
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Not Sure Which Service Fits Your Situation?

Start with a Strategic Briefing. We'll discuss your priorities and recommend the right engagement model.

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