The Strategy Red Team service provides an independent, objective "second opinion" on your current strategy, ensuring clarity, completeness, and coherence.
Why Use Strategy Red Team?
- Reveal blind spots and bias in your strategy to reduce risk and drive better results.
- Confirm you meet the standards of a true strategy, not just activity or generic planning.
- Ensure your approach is thorough, relevant, and robust against disruption.
What You Get
- Strategic audit: Clear recommendations outlining strengths, weaknesses, and risks.
- Validation: Assessment of current strategy and guidance for improvement.
- Corporate alignment: Identification of bias, missing perspectives, and opportunities to strengthen the strategy.
- Leadership perspective: Pinpoints gaps in validation, engagement, communication, and accountability.
- Recurring review: Optional quarterly strategy reviews, accountability check-ins, and board support.
Who Benefits
- CEOs, boards, and new executives looking to validate or upgrade their strategies.
- Organizations preparing for key events like funding rounds, M&A, or annual planning retreats.
Approach
- Thorough document analysis
- Executive interviews
- Board presentations for rapid, relevant insights
Typical Timing
- 2–4 weeks
Pricing
- Fixed fee or retainer basis, depending on project scope
When to Use
- Mid-cycle strategy checks
- Annual planning retreats
- Prior to major events like M&A or funding rounds
Strategy Red Team Components
Validation
Review of current strategy and plan to review and improve it. Provide guidance on proposed strategy formation structure, process, components and integration with execution plan.
Corporate Alignment
Review of adherence to best practices in current efforts to update strategy prior to completion to uncover bias, missing perspectives and opportunities to improve.
Leadership Perspective
Review of existing leadership and management culture to identify gaps, bias, missing elements for validation, engagement, communication and accountability.
Recurring Review
Quarterly review of strategy implementation, accountability, board support. Includes review of board materials, management decisions and compliance with internal strategy guidance.