Business Strategy

Through our decades of experience with global multinationals, and local businesses in South Africa, we can assist in crafting and refining business strategies to cope with the rapidly changing digital wave that is enveloping businesses today.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

The acknowledged NUMBER ONE ISSUE for CEO’s and other C-suite executives is EXECUTION.

If one looks at most typical enterprises, every one should have a business strategy. At the back end, one has the results one generates. But in most enterprises, there’s an “execution gap” between strategy and results, which is where real work gets done and where value gets created for a business. Grey Hair Consulting helps enterprises close this frustrating execution gap in three ways:

Business Alignment:
We help enterprises break down your strategy into department, team and individual goals, and provide you with skills and resources that have “been there, done that successfully” to monitor progress against these goals in real-time so you can proactively guide and manage business results.

People Performance:
We help enterprises make sure you have the right people in the right jobs and that every person on your team is performing to their full potential, and is clear on what is expected from them.

Effective use of technology.
By ensuring complete alignment between the business strategy and the technology to support that strategy, maximum efficiency and effectiveness is obtained.

This will include a view of where disruption can occur and to make sure an organization is primed to have plans in place to avoid being dis-intermediated. A classic example would be to develop a WFH (Work From Home) strategy to embrace the “new normal” resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Grey Hair Consulting is about helping our clients develop and streamline their business strategies to ensure maximum effectiveness, as well as ensuring these strategies align with the ICT strategies, taking into account the King IV report on ICT governance. Grey Hair Consulting brings both business and ICT experience to the table, and applies independent and experienced advice to the enterprise’s business strategy.

“A single conversation with a wise person is better than 10 years of study”

Chinese proverb

CONTACT DETAILS

Bruce MacLaren

Mobile: 083-327-0233

Email: bruce.maclaren@greyhairconsulting.co.za