“A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change. A strategic inflection point can be deadly when unattended to — but it creates opportunities for players who are adept at operating in the new way. The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up and listen — timing is everything…”
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company, Andy Grove, Intel
Strategy is not a straight line from intent to full implementation success—it is an iterative and rapidly changing journey. Alignment and speed are key success factors when an organization is at a strategic inflection point.
What creates a strategic ‘inflection point’?
Only a very small number of companies have thrived over time… According to our research with 1,900 executives, eighty-two percent of them went through a redesign in the last three years. However, most of these redesign efforts fail — only 23 percent were implemented successfully.
Getting organizational redesign right, McKinsey Quarterly
How can you leverage your strategic inflection point to your maximum advantage? Using our Rapid Alignment methodology, we have helped Canadian and American companies successfully transition through tumultuous strategic inflection periods that have challenged their organization’s performance, and even survival!
Our work with clients is rapid, multifaceted and iterative impacting pivotal strategic and performance issues simultaneously that are currently most challenging to the organization in their transformation. We have helped organizations quickly resolve critical strategic issues that have stalled their transformation initiatives:
