Strategic Product
& Planning Advisor
Sharp priorities
Aligned authority
Grounded delivery
Planning without clarity is expensive.
Even smart, capable teams lose momentum when their priorities shift too often.
Stakeholders may pull in different directions.
Realistic planning to remove gaps between
Plans, Delivery and Controls
And reduce risk
Three services that reduce risk
Stress-tested roadmaps
1 Roadmap Reality Check
A short, sharp engagement to stress-test your current roadmap.
Includes priority vs. capacity review and risk identification.
Outcome: A clear, focused plan that exposes, understands and mitigates risk
Planning systems that scale
2 Planning Rhythm Design
Establish a coherent and consistent planning rhythm.
Reduce the time spent in planning, while increasing alignment across teams
Outcome A defined and repeatable planning process.
Aligned stakeholders
3 Clear Governance
Define roles, responsibilities & reporting processes.
Create governance structures that enable momentum, from goals to outcomes
Outcome Transparency between decision makers and programme management
Ways to Work Together
On-demand support for as short or long a time as needed
Audit, consult and collaborate across a planning period:
- Observe existing ways of working
- Facilitate risk exposure and mitigation
- Map the governance system
Outcome
An enhanced and repeatable system
Problems solved
Past Client work has included
Clear priorities
- advise UK Plc Board on a content marketing strategy to enter a new market sector
- Focus on User needs over internal politics to unblock delivery a multi-brand retail investment platform
- introduce A/B testing to double retail online sales in 7 sprints
Grounded delivery
- identify a lower-risk approach to an in-flight £50 million investment programme
- reshape a 5-year technology delivery plan to take account of organisational capability
- change how a £20 million annual marketing campaign buys and measures advertising impact
Aligned authority
- identify long-established performance measures that impeded strategy delivery, and proposed a new North Star that changed budget allocations to reflect the strategy
- implement governance across operating companies to support internal technology adoption
- coach a board to understand technology’s consequences and opportunities
Past Clients
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