Our assignments cover the following categories:

1.  The Strategic Audit Program
2.  The Strategic Planning Program
3.  The Strategic Advisor Program
4.  Custom Programs

1. The Strategic Audit Program

Expert analysis of both the process and the content of your current strategic plan.

• Is your strategic plan up to the challenges of today's turbulent economy?
• Are your objectives and your strategies geared toward today’s unforgiving competitive environment?
• Is your mission statement truly the foundation of your enterprise? Does it clearly describe the relationship – does it “build a bridge” – between your company and its customers?
• Is there a strong linkage among your mission statement, your objectives and your strategies? Are they all focused in the same strategic direction?

If you’re pondering these questions, you’ll benefit from Bill Birnbaum’s expert analysis of both the process and the content of your strategic plan. With more than a quarter century experience in strategy consulting, he’ll personally analyze your plan and offer his specific recommendations.

Your next step:  For more information on the Strategic Audit Program, please email Bill Birnbaum at Bill@BirnbaumAssociates.com or call him at (949) 500-0715.

2. The Strategic Planning Program

• Is your management team really thinking strategically? Or is your team stuck using that same old process – year after year?
• Is this year’s strategy really last year’s strategy “warmed over”?
• Is your team focused on those activities most important to your business – on the key determinants to profitable growth?
• Is your management team building a shared strategic vision of your enterprise? Then using that shared strategic vision to develop a sound business strategy?

The objective of The Strategic Planning Program is to guide your senior management team to develop a sound strategic plan – a strategic plan based on sound strategic thinking. In fact, Bill Birnbaum’s personal objective for the Strategic Planning Program is that your management team will think more strategically about their enterprise than they ever have before. Yes, The Strategic Planning Program will yield the elements of your strategic plan. At the end of the strategic planning session, you’ll have your written strategic plan. But the written strategic plan is just one outcome. Another (often more significant) outcome is your management team’s shared strategic understanding of your enterprise.

Your next step:  For more information on the Strategic Planning Program, please email Bill Birnbaum at Bill@BirnbaumAssociates.com or call him at (949) 500-0715.

3. The Strategic Advisor Program

• Could you benefit from the ongoing assistance of an experienced, strategic-minded advisor?
• Might your management team be more focused on meaningful strategic objectives?
• Could you better allocate resources on those activities which simply matter most? Those which directly contribute to profitable growth?

The objective of The Strategic Advisor Program is to help you and your management team stay focused on those activities most crucial to profitable growth. Working with you in an on-going client-advisor relationship, Bill Birnbaum will employ his quarter century experience as a strategy consultant to help you achieve profitable growth.

Your next step:  For more information on the Strategic Advisor Program, please email Bill Birnbaum at Bill@BirnbaumAssociates.com or call him at (949) 500-0715.

4.  Custom Programs…

We offer consultation in:

Audit of, and recommendations regarding, your existing business strategy and strategic planning processes.

• Strategy team selection.
• Strategic planning processes.
• Gathering and sharing of pre-planning information.
• Building both individual and organizational knowledge.
• Communicating your strategic plan… to employees, to your board of directors, to strategic partners.
• Implementing strategy.
• Designing and compiling pre-strategy planning surveys. To survey:
  - Planning team members
  - Employees
  - Board of directors
  - Customers
• Designing and producing your written strategic plan.
• Repairing strategy-gone-wrong.

We facilitate:

• Strategic planning sessions.
• Information sharing meetings.
• Action planning sessions.
• Strategy review meetings.
• Meetings to repair strategy-gone-wrong.

We offer training in:

• Strategy development.
• Strategy implementation.
• Thinking and managing strategically.
• Building knowledge in your organization.
• Reinventing strategic planning.
• Plus, customized training programs to meet specific client-company needs.

We offer executive coaching specific to individual needs – generally related to enhancing strategic thinking and leadership skills.

Your next step:  To discuss your specific needs for a Custom Program, please email Bill Birnbaum at Bill@BirnbaumAssociates.com or call him at (949) 500-0715.