Business Management System

Many businesses, large or small, struggle with developing and deploying effective and executable strategies when the staff grows beyond its founders. Whether you are a start-up with three employees or a mega corporation with 1000's, all team members must understand their role in strategic execution. The key to successfully executing is ensuring every employee in engaged in achieving the same vision.    

BMS is a strategy management process for evaluating your current business environment, determining your strategic direction, and laying out a roadmap of strategic initiatives.

We work with your organization's leaders first to determine the ultimate destination or vision and secondly, work with the entire organization to define how to get there. Leaders think that they are solely responsible for strategic direction and execution within their organization. BMS directs your organization’s leaders to first, determine the ultimate destination, and secondly, define how to get there. 

A strategic plan explains why an organization exists, what it intends to accomplish, and the tactics it will take to achieve its goals and objectives.

HOLOS’ Business Management System is the North Star of the HOLOS Leadership System in your organization’s journey to reaching optimal success. BMS directs your organization’s leaders to first, determine the ultimate destination, and secondly, define how to get there. We put you in control of reaching your goals, no matter how grand or minute, by aligning your vision, mission and strategic intent and successfully deploying them.

Our Approach To Strategy Consulting

Our approach is collaborative, forming a team with key leaders within the client’s organization, and developing the business strategy in five main phases.

Baseline Assessment: Together, we reaffirm the organization’s mission, vision, and values, establishing a strategic context. Our strategy consultants also evaluate the current situation in terms of internal factors (financial, operational, products, customers, and supply chain), external factors (market, industry, competition), opportunities, and threats.

Formulation: Using a variety of facilitation tools, our management consultants collaborate with the team to formulate the strategic vision, value proposition, competitive differentiation, and strategic alternatives (e.g. develop a capability vs. make an acquisition). This phase includes development of the high level “strategic story,” a strategic narrative that is powerful, compelling, and easy to remember.

Specification: Our strategy consultants now develop the strategy in more detail in terms of objectives, a three to five year road map, and key metrics.Planning: Now the strategy must be fleshed out in terms of strategic growth initiatives along with detailed plans for each functional area. In this phase, we also build the business case and along with budgetary requests (operational and capital).

Execution: Carrying out the strategic plan includes assigning responsibility for each initiative, program/project management, and organizational change management. Our execution services are described in more detail on our website.

Many business strategy projects are long on planning but short on action. Our management consulting methodology remedies this in the assessment phase by identifying the three to five most critical issues (the “critical few”) and expediting them directly into execution. This allows quick development of executable action plans in parallel with the rest of the business planning process to develop the growth initiatives. This approach delivers faster results and surfaces any potential issues that the organization has in execution.

BMS Tasks and Activities

• Establish Strategic Intent

• Identify Core Competency

• Align Performance Measures

• Balance Business Processes

• Identify Strategic Breakthroughs

Collaborative Approach for Success

An analogy for BMS is to think of your company on a journey toward a specific destination. BMS is the tool to help you first determine the final destination and secondly define how to get there! This will allow organizations to shift through and beyond their current business paradigm and create a new one that embraces beneficial change. It’s important to start your change process by aligning everyone and making sure they are all heading in the same direction.

An important part of preparing to reach this final destination is:

• Create breakthrough experiences that forge innovative growth within the organization.

• Define Business Fundamentals to sustain incremental operational improvements in productivity.

• Provide your team with a clear message and purpose – creating leverage for everyone to fully engage in the change process.

• Learn to create balanced scorecards used to evaluate the overall performance of the business and its progress towards objectives.