Corporate strategy is the overall scope and direction of a corporation and the way in which its various business operations work together to achieve particular goals. It involves a set of actions that enables a company to be worth more than just the sum of its parts. The corporate strategy function should be a value-add to a company not a drain of value. We develop corporate strategies and can work on issues from optimizing resource allocation, new market entry, acquisitions of other companies, or identifying strategic alliances. We can look at ways of creating value by exploiting linkages and synergies between business units and help you to exploit the value chain.

Functional Strategy is the strategic plan adopted by each functional area of a business such as marketing, finance, production and development or human resources, and is in line with the overall corporate strategy in order to achieve the organisational level objectives. Functional strategy is key to the success of correctly serving the business enterprise, from hiring and retaining talent, developing world-leading research capabilities, having the legal infrastructure in place to implement intellectual property, to having critical finance capabilities. All are key functional resources and all need well thought out strategies.

Operational strategy is the advisory that improves an organisation’s value chain. It connects your operations to your strategy and focuses on the opportunities that will create the greatest value and determine how to extract the greatest value from them. Operational strategy examines your sales & marketing, process management, supply chain management, procurement, finance, and outsourcing and will look to increase the throughput, reduce costs and increase productivity, outlining metrics and benchmarks along the way.

No matter where your business is, growth is just over the horizon. While your vision may be clear, defining the optimal segments and opportunities for growth – and the shortest path to them – requires a strategy – a practical road map to greater success. We work with organizations to use and develop innovation as a source of competitive advantage and make innovation work resulting in measurable results.

We assist our clients’ businesses to grow and to maintain growth in changing markets and re-trigger growth in mature markets where innovation seems to be a lost cause. We help our clients develop a more detailed perspective on trends, future growth rates, and market structures. By looking across all the possible directions of growth — growing the core, expanding geographically, diversifying into adjacencies, and taking opportunities that arise from value-chain disruptions and integrations — we help companies choose where to compete, and we support them as much as they want, as they execute their growth or innovation strategies.

We help clients transform themselves for the digital and IoT age by linking the physical world with the digital world to unlock massive economic value for their businesses. We work with clients to ensure they have the capabilities — the systems, tools, digital skills, technology, and understanding — to realize their strategic vision.

We believe technology is one of the primary forces that creates new industries and transforms existing ones. At endeavit we are high technology business specialists and are best placed to help technology companies thrive. We fully understand your technology mindset and appreciate what you as a technology company is facing and the issues you must consider, from exploiting innovations, disruptive technologies, the role of intellectual property, the timing of innovation, new product introduction, management of risk, choices between licensing or internal development. We place strategies to culture organizational conditions necessary to create innovation, in particular, to foster creativity within firms.

Generating the strategy for a large company requires a strategy process to be followed that incorporates all the business units and corporate function units interacting with each other. We have found that often there are limited discussions between these units, leading to frustration and sub-optimal corporate performance. Strategies are actually hindered by both sides not gaining sufficient information about each other’s wants. Putting specially tailored processes in place can help overcome that corporate struggle, whereby structured interactions are actually engineered.

A good strategy needs a solid strategy process to be followed and run correctly. Companies need to have robust processes in place that are transparent, easy to implement, fit for purpose, and do not place an extra unnecessary burden on people. Not having processes for such important company events can lead to problems from just being a waste of time, looking amateurish to a failing strategy, to name just a few. A good process will be efficient and if run correctly, will enable all of the information to be gathered and all analyses to be performed, in order to form and make quality decisions and recommendations. We have years of experience in this area and can generate processes from scratch or adjust the ones you have already in place. We can also run these processes for you or help you run them within your team.

At endeavit, we support organisational leaders with strategic decision making to help them determine the best overall direction in which they will take their business. We bring fresh insight, innovation, energy, clarity, and deep industry expertise to the table. We challenge our clients and ourselves to create ambitious and achievable outcomes by understanding their market conditions, customer segment needs, product innovations, and potential competitor responses. We can generate insights by asking you to beat your own business – then shore up your weaknesses.