

Do you have a strategy? What are your chances of implementing it?In too many companies there is a yawning gap between ‘strategy’ and ‘results’.I work with leadership teams, and leaders at all levels, to bridge this gap. Cutting through the misunderstood acronyms, alienating jargon and mind-numbing management speak – Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP), New Product Development (NPD), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) blah blah blah – to translate STRATEGIC CHOICES into COHERENT ACTION and SUSTAINABLE RESULTS.I’ve spent my career devoted to creating, implementing, developing and using strategy, joined-up decision-making and collaboration to create advantage.I believe context is everything. Only by tailoring this, or anything else, to the unique values, strategy and culture of an organisation, do they become natural ways of working and interconnected components of the ‘eco-system’ that connects STRATEGY ↔︎ ACTION ↔︎ RESULTS.I co-founded StrataBridge to help organisations develop, deploy and deliver winning strategies and impactful outcomes. We help provoke strategic thinking and facilitate strategic dialogue. We work on processes such as S&OP, IBP, PLM, etc. We work on related aspects of change and performance – organisational and capability development, operating model design, innovation, to name a few. We connect the dots.Most organisations try to address these many dimensions by ‘cutting the elephant into pieces’. But when you cut an elephant into pieces you don’t get smaller elephants, you get a mess. Starting with strategy puts things in context. This frames a holistic design, highlights critical ‘connections’ and key ‘connectors’; aligns all the moving parts to STRATEGY, drives coherent ACTION and accelerates RESULTS.If you’d like to discuss your strategy, and how to improve your chances of delivering it, let’s talk. No obligations, just an opportunity to kick around some ideas. I can’t wait to speak with you.
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Planning transformation conversations consistently surface the same pattern: the presenting problem is operational, but the root cause is strategic. Drawing on a conversation with Chris Turner of StrataBridge, this article examines why S&OP rarely closes the strategy gap, what planning leaders can actually do without authority over strategy, and how reframing IBP as a strategy deployment process changes what the monthly cycle is for.