Our Approach:
Sponsor Alignment and Project Governance and Structure:
We worked closely with our MAKE VP to understand and align on expectations and agreed project structure and teams i.e. MAKE Leadership and MAKE Strategy Development Team. We designed and gained Sponsor and MAKE Leadership agreement to a rapid briefing approach throughout the project.
Team Creation & Building and Strategy Development:
To create a high performing team and prepare to build out the key components of the future vision, mission and strategic priorities, we designed and facilitated a series of highly interactive workshops. Each had focused on different parts of the strategy development journey and built on the previous as follows:
Team Alignment, Education, Vision, Mission and Business Landscape Scanning,
Focus -developing multiple strategic options
Act – selection and detailing final strategic initiative recommendations.;
Final Vision, Mission and Strategic Initiatives and Communications Plan
Strategic Initiatives - Detailing, Challenging and Testing:
Developed:
Prioritised Five year and One year roadmap with agreed sponsors and leaders
clear actionable MAKE Strategy Communications Plan to engage all key MAKE stakeholders and personnel and galvanised performance success
Strategy Finalisation and Client Handover:
The final Strategic Initiative handover to the MAKE VP and Leadership Team included prioritised resourced Programme Plan,PMO with Strategic Planning and Governance and clear actionable Communications Plan
Our Methodologies:
Whilst we employed different methodologies, these are the most important:
Gartner SC Model and Frameworks
Five Stage Maturity Model
Porter’s Competitive Advantage Model
Miltenburg’s Manufacturing Strategy
Adaptive Change Design Cycle (Scan, Focus, Act) Methodology
Creation of a High Performing Team
Team Building
Knowledge Sessions
Highly interactive workshops
Coaching
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Global Supply Chain MAKE Strategy
Our Client:
MAKE Vice-president for a $42 BN USD global pharmaceutical supply chain within a multi-national healthcare company.
Project Description:
Development of a global MAKE functional strategy.
Benefits:
Clearly articulated vision, mission and strategic priorities
Strategy process and outputs confirmed to MAKE Lead organisational design requirements
All non-value added programmes & projects identified and eliminated, releasing capital and resources.
Strategic priorities (five year horizon) and key projects (one year horizon)
Structured by portfolio & agreed priority
Aligned seamlessly into MAKE Strategy and Performance Governance
Aligned vertically and horizontally, ensuring synchronicity, with SC functional and MAKE functional strategies and governance
Surfaced specific strategic priorities:
People and Culture
Asia
New technologies acquisitions integration
Clear actionable Communications Plan including MAKE Strategy Branding
High performing team- transitioned into MAKE Strategy Communications & Implementation
Results:
<15% changes to initial strategic priorities, at one year review
Challenges and Objectives:
New MAKE VP requested clear vision, mission and strategic priorities to lead his organisation, align with key stakeholders and tie-in business processes thus delivering Business and SC strategies.
MAKE VP and Team agreed to focus in strategic, operation and culture to support their current and future product portfolios, to execute operational excellence and sustaining customer value, ensure they developed aligned robust manufacturing capabilities and build a talent network to drive a high performance culture.
Access to MAKE VP and Team, due to their busy schedules and global locations, was identified as a key challenge.
Strategic thinking and knowledge across the MAKE Strategy Development Team was varied thus it was important to bring everyone. to the same knowledge base, in a supportive manner.
Our Scope:
To create a MAKE vision, mission and strategic priorities, a Communications Plan, with the MAKE VP, MAKE Team and MAKE Strategy Development Team.
