Assessment of development opportunities

As a strategic agency, we start the consultancy collaboration from defining the development opportunities that are most important to your company. Most often, we use a pattern that divides development opportunities into three basic bundles of actions:

1. Growth through intensification: a. market penetration strategy; b. market development strategy; c. product development strategy,
2. Growth through integration, i.e. alliances and acquisitions: a. vertical ones: suppliers, distributors; b. horizontal ones: competition,
3. Growth through diversification: new products for new markets.

All consultancy activities we carry out take place in the context of specific development opportunities: by building a communication strategy with the market, a personal strategy or by recommending managers for highest positions in the company, we need to know what is most important for you at the relevant time.

"Markets are conversations” (The Cluetrain Manifesto) - in every development strategy, what we say to our customers and business partners and how we say it is of crucial importance.

Logic of action

An important step in our strategic workshops is to name the logic of action of an enterprise and its individual business units. Referring to leadership models, we distinguish company’s 5 market orientations:

1. Production orientation where the high availability of products and services and their low price are most important,
2. Product orientation where the emphasis is placed on the high quality, usability and innovation of the solutions offered,
3. Sales orientation that is based primarily on the network of business relations and the competencies of salesforce,
4. Marketing orientation where needs and emotions of customers become the strategic point of reference,
5. 5. Holistic orientation where “everything matters”, and the 5 factors enable to predict the future of the company, namely:
   • employee motivation and loyalty,
   • favourable trends and calendar of events on the market,
   • properly selected territories/segments of competition,
   • competencies and wisdom of managers,
   • usability and transparency of formal systems and regulations.

If we analyse the situation and see hardly any factors in favour of the success of the company or business unit, we help in restructuring it. When acting against people, in the wrong place and at the wrong time, without market mapping and in chaos, it is impossible to win with the clever, unified and effectively organised competition.

The right selection of methods and tools of change is determined by the discovered current logic of company’s operation.

The ability to decentralise, i.e. to go beyond one’s own needs, thoughts and aspirations, is a prerequisite for understanding company’s strategic communities and market opportunities.

When formulating the first assumptions of the philosophy of language, Ludwig Wittgenstein created the concept of a “logical form”. Analysing what we say and how we do it, he wrote: “A gramophone record, the musical idea, the written notes, and the sound-waves, all stand to one another in the same internal relation of depicting that holds between language and the world. They are all constructed according to a logical pattern”. Our consultancy activities aim, first of all, at the synchronisation of the company with its market, so that products, services, employees’ competencies, organisational culture, and the development and communication strategy are the mapping of the market and the thoughts and needs of customers. By referring to the above quote, the strategic question will be in this situation whether or not today we are ready to design solutions that our customers will expect in a year or two or in the next few years.