Business Strategy Consulting Services

Thought Catalysts
Working with Leaders implementing Business Strategy and Organization Development

Integrating Strategy and Organizational Change

Thought Catalysts specializes in helping leaders implement business strategy and organizational change.

We offer a full complement of expertise and pragmatic solutions related to making meaningful change in client organizations including:

Creating and implementing effective business strategy

Have you as a leader shared business strategies throughout your organization?

Is your business strategy easy to understand?

Can employees tell you how their job furthers the company strategy?

Aligning business strategy with organizational development

Has your business strategy changed faster than the organizational culture that supports it?

How does your culture need to change to support success in a changing marketplace?

Speeding effectiveness of change efforts
(see Change Implementation)
- Stop burning out Senior Project Managers. Give them tools and training to reduce human resistance to major new business processes and programs.
- Deliver programs on schedule and stay within budget. Reduce delays related to unanticipated resistance.
- Speed program utilization after implementation.
Sharing tools. We will share the top 10 critical success factors that drive the success of technology implementation or business process changes. That list is a small part of the tools and practices from which we choose to customize a solution for your unique environment.
Making the invisible visible by measuring the “soft stuff.”
- Would you like to know if that complaint you just heard is one person's opinion or a widely held belief? We offer tools to allow you to bring this information out into the open.
- Imagine what you could do if you had visual trend data showing morale by department.
Communicating major changes throughout an organization

Make sure that messages are consistent with the magnitude of the change occurring in the organization.
Team building can be enhanced by effective communications in times of significant change.
Do you have a thorough plan to make sure the message you intend to share is being heard over over rumors?

Bringing new ideas and objectivity to static situations
Creating powerful culture and values
Increasing team effectiveness

Do you actively engage in team building? Where are your teams in the team development process?
Do you have an explicit way to make decisions?
What are the shared values and agreed behaviors in the team?
How do you build trust quickly when a group needs to work together?