The Strategy Foundation service provides an actionable, data-driven framework for building or redefining winning strategies. It strengthens the foundational components missing in many strategies.

Why Use Strategy Foundation?

A strong foundation transforms aspirations into disciplined execution and sustained high performance. Traditional frameworks often miss vital components like valid data, integrated plans, robust business models, and accountability systems. Strategy Foundation ensures every part of your strategy supports growth and resilience.

HSS provides services foundational to strategy: diagnostics, strategy cascade, business models, and performance management.

What You Get

A comprehensive strategic system to integrate:

  • Organizational diagnostics
  • Internally consistent strategy cascade
  • Documented business models
  • One-page performance tracking accountability action plans

Who Benefits

  • Founders, CEOs, leadership teams launching new ventures
  • Organizations in transition or facing leadership changes

Approach

  • Facilitated workshops
  • Performance analysis
  • Executive interviews and stakeholder validation
  • Documented strategy cascade and business models

Typical Timing

  • 4–8 weeks

Pricing

  • Fixed fee, based on project scope

When to Use

  • At company founding or relaunch
  • During major transitions or leadership changes
  • To address strategic drift or strengthen an existing strategy

Strategy Foundation Components

Organizational diagnostics, create a foundation for understanding who you are and where you are as a company

Organizational
Diagnostics

What are your culture, circumstances, and capabilities? How do you know? Does everyone agree? Does your knowledge system verify this assessment?

Strategy formation makes up the basis of understanding, aspirations, target, economic model, capabilities, and systems required to implement your strategy

Strategy
Formation

Where are you headed? Have you articulated and aligned your aspirations, domain, value creation,  economic model, capabilities, and systems?

In the context of your strategy and diagnostics, a business model describes the nature of your business and internal external relationships required to implement a strategy

Business
Models

Have you documented and validated business model(s)? How about value propositions, strategic partners, resources, customer relationships, costs and revenues, channels?

Performance management articulates the key metrics you'll use to describe and track your success and implement accountability mechanisms

Performance
Management 

Given the above, are you using  validated business plans integrated across the company that identify objectives, activities, resources, and accountabilities?

Alignment of Foundation Components

Strategies guide choices of what to do and what not to do. The confidence to articulate those choices is hard if you don't know who and where you are, where you are going, how you will get there, and where you are along the journey. If your strategy is weak, it is likely because you have a weak foundation. Let's talk about how to fix that.