{"id":3076,"date":"2017-07-17T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:52:13","slug":"four-ways-to-get-help-with-annual-strategy-and-operations-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/four-ways-to-get-help-with-annual-strategy-and-operations-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways to Get Help with Annual Strategy and Operations Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: \u00a0Peter DiGiammarino is a professional CEO and founder of growth strategy consulting firm, IntelliVen. \u00a0IntelliVen is also an author on Flevy, producing a series of frameworks covering a variety of management and leadership topics. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/author\/IntelliVen\">View all this Flevy materials here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * *<\/p>\n<p>The year is more than half over and\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">it is time to start planning for next year<\/span>\u00a0but the top team is maxed-out just keeping up with operations! Outside help may be just the thing.<\/p>\n<p>There are four types of help\u2026 here is a guide you can use to decide which is right for your team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About consultants&#8230; what is the difference between them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kinds-of-Outside-Help-2.gif\" alt=\"Kinds-of-Outside-Help-2\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>1. Strategy Consultants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">WHAT THE LEADER WANTS:<\/span>\u00a0Strategy consultants compare organization performance with others in similar and different industries to recommend what is possible in light of advances in technology and trends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">THE REALITY:<\/span>\u00a0The challenge is for leaders to internalize and adopt new ideas as their own, especially in light of what it will take to implement them.\u00a0Strategy consultants are known for good ideas and not for helping clients follow their advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">EXAMPLE FIRMS:<\/span>\u00a0McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and IDEO.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">2. Implementation\u00a0Consultants<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">WHAT THE LEADER WANTS:<\/span>\u00a0Leaders who know what they want to do need a way to do it. Implementation Consultants assign a team to work with an organization to get done what is needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">THE REALITY:<\/span>\u00a0The challenge is that internal competence and capacity to maintain, extend, support, and revise what is delivered is often not enough to get full value and the organization remains dependent on outside help to address similar future needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">EXAMPLE FIRMS<\/span>: Booz Allen and Accenture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">3. Operators<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">WHAT THE LEADER WANTS:<\/span>\u00a0Leaders who choose\u00a0to outsource part of their business turn to third-parties who provide the service for hire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">THE REALITY:<\/span>\u00a0Contracted Operators take full responsibility for what to do, how to do it, and getting it done at a best practice level. The organization has to learn to work with and manage the outsourcer(s) but no longer needs to worry about what to do with outsourced function(s).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">EXAMPLE FIRMS:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0EDS, CGI, and CSRA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">4. Development Consultants<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">WHAT THE LEADER WANTS:<\/span>\u00a0Leaders who know their team can figure out what to do, and do it, if only they had the time and some help to work better together turn to Development Consultants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">THE REALITY:<\/span>\u00a0Aligned leaders who know how to collaborate accomplish things far greater than even they had any idea that they could.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">EXAMPLE FIRMS:<\/span>\u00a0Organization Development consultants, CEO Coaches, and experienced executives, including IntelliVen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: \u00a0Peter DiGiammarino is a professional CEO and founder of growth strategy consulting firm, IntelliVen. \u00a0IntelliVen is also an author on Flevy, producing a series of frameworks covering a variety of management and leadership topics. \u00a0View all this Flevy materials here. * * * * The year is more than half over and\u00a0it is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/four-ways-to-get-help-with-annual-strategy-and-operations-planning\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Ways to Get Help with Annual Strategy and Operations Planning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management-leadership","tag-management-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}