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STRATEGY PRACTICE
Powered by S5 Navigator™ - Connect Your Strategy to Execution Across All Business Functions
The Navigator™ system will turn your vision, ideas, and instincts into focused plans your entire team can get excited about and actually execute.
Strategy to Execution Disconnects
Some facts that might resonate with you:
- Fewer than 30% of companies run a formal strategic planning process.
- Less than 30% of employees understand the strategy well enough to act on it.
- Over 70% of strategic plans fail to execute.
Common symptoms we see:
- Everything feels like a priority and there are too many priorities
- Front line teams don't know what matters most
- Strategic initiatives aren't moving the needle
- Meetings multiply but don't deliver results
- Your strategy is in a deck and not on the front line
Simple Diagnostic: Walk your floor. Ask any employee:
1) "What are your top priorities right now?"
2) "How does your role support them?"
If your strategy isn't changing behavior, it's not connected to execution.
The S5 Navigator™ System
S5 Navigator™ is Stage 5’s proprietary strategy-to-execution system.
With Navigator™ your business will have:
- Strategic Priorities: Aligned with business SWOT and performance objectives
- Initiatives: Prioritized, with clear ownership, clear deliverable timing, and resource constraints in the plan
- Department Functions: Complete cross-functional and leadership-to-front-line alignment
- Cadence: Long range down to monthly & weekly execution
- Strategic Planning System: Adapted as the business operates and lives IN your organization (not in a deck)
Strategy ultimately fails when it’s treated as an event.
Navigator runs it as a system.
How We Engage
Two options for deploying Navigator™ in your business:
- Replace Your Current System - Stage 5 facilitates your annual, quarterly, and monthly strategic planning process, deploying all Navigator tools & processes. This is the cleanest and most effective option.
- Integrate With Your Current System - Stage 5 implements selected Navigator System elements into your current system as applicable.
With all Navigator™ engagements our approach includes:
- Strategy Diagnostic Sprint - Deep dive into your current state. (Generally 2-3 Weeks)
- Project Scoped: Deliverables, KPIs, owners, and timing set and into Gannt plan.
- Kick-off: With management team and key front line staff, ideally in conjunction with Town Hall for 100% organizational alignment.
- Monthly Cadence: Project Gannt review, initiative progress review, KPIs monitored, modifications made as necessary. *Depending on scope of engagement.