
Increase sales success through systematic qualification, planning, and managing progress
to target the most valuable and profitable sales opportunities.
Freedom2Act Sales Optimization Management™ provides a decisive overview of customers and prospects. It is designed to address the growing difficulty of qualifying prospects quickly, before time and energy are wasted. It helps determine if a new client or project is a good fit and a profitable use of finite resources as where to focus.
Freedom2Act Strategy Review™ is a quick and efficient way for performing a thorough 360 degree review of a company's strategy either as part of a strategy planning or as part of an Enterprise Risk Management process. The outcome is a shared clear view of the company's AS-IS situation and of where improvements are required. Furthermore, the resulting action plan focuses upon increasing the company’s freedom to act by reducing the business’ vulnerability and by exploitation of identified strategic opportunities.
The process is intensive with a high pace, comprehensive, systematic, and stimulates agreement amongst the participants regarding goals and means. The process opens up for new strategic perspectives for the businesses leading to higher growth and profitability.
We can efficiently identify and measure factors of importance for the company's survival and success. This is performed by means of the Freedom2Act Strategy Review™, an intensive workshop over a few days with the management team consisting of a Freedom2Act™ Business Mapping followed by an in-debt Factfinding.
The Freedom2Act™ Business Mapping is used to jointly identify the company's earnings drivers. We will identify "need-based" Business Areas entirely on the market's premises. One other words, we identify the business areas based upon the value created for its customers and not on its organization nor technology. This process has been an eye-opener for many of our customers and helped streamline marketing messages and efforts.
The Factfinding part is an intensive interview of the management team. We will systematically perform an assessment of 130+ business aspects of each Business Area. An assessment, which is adapted to the company's specific competitive and financial strengths.
Less than a week later, we can present the results ifrom a 360 degree analysis of the company by a precise assessment of its strengths and weaknesses for each of its important business activities. Our diagnosis is based upon the answers given by management and by analyzing the relations between each Business Area and its surroundings.
The results are summarized in graphics of competitive situation, strategic opportunity maps, freedom to act and risk profiles, which clearly points out, where the strategic opportunities and threats lies. The results ease communication with board and employees. A detailed report includes a detailed situation analysis clearly identifying each aspects effect on the business. The diagnosis includes an advanced SWOT analysis, where more than 130 business aspects are covered.
An IT-supported process ensures a rapid end efficient process with a high quality and resulting in very large savings of time for all involved.
We can jointly with the management team a "roadmap" to the future in form of an operational plan mitigating important risks.
A Freedom2Act Seminar™ is a focused brainstorm with the management team. It uses the results of first workshop as a base for a systematic process of how to mitigate significant business risks.
The result is an action plan and a strategi catalog containing prioritized improvements, which can increase the company's ability to satisfy its mission and reach its financial goals. The actions are easily made operational by incorporation in the company's strategic action plan thus bridging risk management and strategic planning.
A Freedom2Act Strategy Review™ identifies and measures more than 120 aspects of importance for the company's survival and success. The results are presented in form of an action plan complemented by a report with detailed arguments as to the conclusions reached supported by intuitive and easy to communicate graphs.
Workshop 1: 2 days with the management
team to collect
data for the most important business areas
Workshop 2: 4-5 days later.
A freedom2act Strategy Review™ includes identification and assessment of strategic opportunities and business risks for the most important business activities.
Workshop1: Freedom2Act Stakeholder Analysis™
Freedom2Act Seminar™ : 4-5 days
later.
Final Results: 3-5 days later
"Having used the method for 18 business area
analyses we consider the freedom2act way of thinking and the analysis model to
be a practical and useful instrument for identification of an
organization's risks and for improved control. Furthermore, it is a
very good group tool."
"One doesn’t fall asleep here – you are right
on target with your questions and they are relevant. It gave me more, that
I originally expected; it is always healthy to see your company with new
eyes and ways. You have given us a common basis for decisions, which we
will continue to work on."
Using this method in our internal auditing
process helped us focus directly on areas where we needed to take action.
We have been able to increase the precision in our work, while at the same
time saving 75 % of our work time.”
This year’s
process was even better than last year’s. It was easier for me to
assimilate and I found it easier to realize where we stand. I only regret
that we did not include our chairman from the beginning. Our risks and
opportunities were extremely well laid out."
The most important benefits with the Analysis were:
1. that the management group finally thanks to the
freedom2act process could focus on strategic issues and simultaneously gained
a better understanding of the importance of focus on strategy and not just
operational aspects;
2. The process was very good training in strategic thinking for the
management team.
3. that he as CEO obtained a more complete overview of the company’s
strategic strengths, which he could use to communicate to the corporate HQ
in Germany.”