Business and strategy planning is rapidly evolving as we navigate the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.

Today’s leaders must match their strategies and their business planning approaches to anticipate what to expect, and having a flexible strategy to deal with the risks and opportunities is critical.

They must embrace the opportunities and disruptive potential while maintaining the agility to adapt to changing conditions as we emerge to the new normal.

We offer creative solutions that have helped organisations across all industries and sectors develop and execute business strategies.

We help organisations take advantage of their industry or sector’s trends and shifts and incorporate this thinking into their business planning.

Addressing the business challenges presented by COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis is driving lasting change in people’s and organisations’ perceptions and behaviours. There are a number of impacts and trends are emerging which are establishing the New Normal. We will need to decipher between the temporary impacts and the permanent trends and adjust our strategy accordingly. For example, the trends and shifts in consumer demand will require expansion in some industries and contraction in others.

How is your organisation currently responding to the COVID-19 crisis?

Is your organisation:

  • Responding to the immediacy of the crisis?

  • Planning responses for the mid-term (3 to 6 months)

  • Implementing responses for the mid-term (3 to 6 months)

  • Planning responses for the long term (> 6 months)

  • Implementing responses for the long term (> 6 months)

We see significant changes to innovation and business strategy priorities, including increased support of the core business. While there has been staff and budget reductions, there is a commitment to developing growth opportunities and an emphasis on “doing more with less” until budgets rebound in 2021.

Some organisations see the crisis as an opportunity to go and innovate, to collaborate and create a brand new product in an adjacent market place.

From an innovation and business strategy perspective, we will need to determine what is fundamentally changing in terms of market performance and outlook; which market trends are temporary, and which trends will become permanent, and become established as the new normal.

Our Strategy and Business Planning Approach

Chase helps organisations evaluate their current market position, the impacts on consumers and business conditions, to develop responses to the short- and long-term implications. We facilitate both in-person and online business strategy development workshops.

We combine innovation and disruption best practice and intellectual rigour with a deep understanding of what shapes an individual business, organisation or enterprise. We develop business and financial models to evaluate the strategy for clients that are realistic and generate improved financial performance.

Chase works with clients to create business models, operational models and action plans using highly participative planning processes, which clarify their pathway for success. We continually focus on what creates true value for our clients.

Our strategy and business planning expertise includes:

  • Strategy and business planning

  • Analysing industry and sector strategic shifts

  • Scenario planning

  • Growth and diversification into new markets

  • Shaping and developing business opportunities

  • Scaling innovations

  • Business cases for investment

  • Strategy implementation

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