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Strategy Skills

Successful strategies are rarely achieved by spontaneous flashes of genius, but rather result from the systematic collection, analysis and evaluation of facts, circumstances, trends and opinions.

In the same way, teams do not work to maximum effectiveness and strategies do not deliver full benefit unless explicit attention is given to understanding the motivations and developing relationships with the people involved.

Successful strategy work therefore requires a wide range of skills, including those below. Although each skill may prove to be of most use at particular phase of a project, the relevance of each is by no means confined to any one phase.

Within each skill area there are a number of tools and approaches that are helpful in developing strategic capability. These are discussed together with 'in practice' examples from recent strategy work.

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