Strategic management and planning

The development of a strategic management and planning process can be challenging. Organizations may encounter difficulties in conciliating daily operations with long term strategic goals, or allocating the necessary resources to implement these strategies.

Agavis Consulting helps clients strengthen their strategy development process, enhance their internal strategic competencies and improve implementation. Our strategy development model assists organizations and companies in building the foundation of their activities, increasing their future impact and identifying new development opportunities.

Activity strategy and resource allocation

Many organizations and companies evaluate their activities through their annual budget review, thereby missing the opportunity to assess different strategic options for the upcoming years.

Strategic options will be fully efficient only if organizations and companies can reallocate resources accordingly. Effective resource allocation requires both flexibility and time in a dynamic environment, and can be equally demanding, both at a managerial and operational level.

A different perspective on a client’s operations will offer the best strategic options, with adjusted resources. Agavis Consulting guides clients in developing not only their long term strategy, but also their internal implementation capabilities.

Governance planning

Governance planning can be challenging for organizations and companies, managing simultaneously the organization’s objectives, regulatory requirements, and social expectations.

Good governance development will help strengthen accountability processes and improve the channels of communication within the company. Well-balanced governance systems need to:

• Identify organizational changes needed to optimize processes and outcomes.
• Establish transparent controls and effective reporting process to manage risks and performance.
• Define outcomes in terms of economic, social and environmental benefits.

Agavis Consulting will assist in governance planning, more specifically in:

• Governance model development.
• Integration of legal and regulatory requirements.
• Codes of conduct development and assimilation of social responsibility.

Stakeholder management

A strategy is only successful when all stakeholders are well aligned and engaged. Strategic decisions rely on a thorough understanding of the stakeholders’ profile, expectations, including stakeholders’ culture.

Agavis Consulting offers integrated solutions to identify, organize and manage stakeholder relevant information, with the following outcomes:

• Identification - An exhaustive organization catalogue of all internal and external actors.
• Analysis and mapping - Identification of all the different needs, concerns and expectations of the various stakeholders.
• Matrix - Distribution of the stakeholders across a strategic matrix to define adapted outcomes accordingly.
• Communication – Effective messages and adapted communication channels to strengthen stakeholders’ engagement.

These different tools will shape and align an organization's activities with internal and external expectations, which is a crucial asset for growth and development.

Sustainability & Corporate responsibility

Experience and research show that sustainability & corporate responsibility must be integrated at the highest strategic level to ensure successful implementation and achieve the greatest impact.

Organizations and corporations need to prioritize sustainability issues given their specific activities. Essentially, sustainability and responsibility choices have to resonate with the core activities of the organization.

Agavis Consulting advises clients on how to integrate sustainability and corporate responsibility (two great assets that are usually overlooked or undervalued) into their business strategy, business models and operating processes.

Organization design

The structure of an organization defines its capacity to identify business development opportunities, execute strategy and adapt to change. Designing an efficient and competitive structure requires a translation of objectives into an organizational configuration, aligning accountabilities and developing sustainable principles within the organizational design.

Agavis Consulting offers diagnostics that can assess the strengths and weaknesses of your current organizational design. We make sure to align new structures with the organization’s strategy and operations, before proceeding on to the implementation phase.

Agavis’ expertise ensures accountability within the different levels of an organization, and adherence to its mission and objectives. A new organizational design is only truly implemented until performance can be measured.

Human Capital Development

Developing in-house capabilities and internal talent is crucial in an organization that wants to build a strong legacy and ensure long-term efficiency and competitiveness.

Agavis Consulting helps organizations evaluate their human capital development needs and translate them into a tailored full-fledged professional development program.

Agavis Consulting also offers training courses in the following specific areas:

• Project and program management.
• Change management and resource development.
• Reporting level push-back.
• Management across cultures.
• Organizational development.

Agavis Consulting also offers business and executive coaching programs for professionals that need to develop their leadership skills, supervise multi-disciplinary, cross-function or cross-geography teams, or professionals who may be looking to transfer their skills to another industry.

Business Development

Business development is the process of identifying and creating long-term value for an organization. Organizations remain competitive and relevant in their market through continuous innovation and product/service improvements. A well-designed business development process takes into account customer relationships, markets, products and services, to move organizations into new business horizons and deliver consistent and sustainable company growth.

Agavis Consulting helps clients identify these business development and growth opportunities, by assessing the external market/environment together with the organization’s DNA and values.

In order for successful implementation and maintenance of a proper business development process, Agavis Consulting provides external, objective and independent capabilities that allow our clients to overcome frequent challenges such as:

• Time management and attention bogged-down by day-to-day operations.
• Loss of fresh business perspective, hampered by years of status quo operation.
• Insufficient resources.
• Unfamiliarity with new targeted markets.
• Lack of specific analysis capability.

Agavis Consulting supports established SME, and start-up organizations alike by providing tailored expertise and solutions. Our expertise for established/SME organizations relate to:

• Company performance and market positioning analysis.
• New-market or partnership potential evaluation.
• New product/company market entry impact analysis.
• Branding/marketing strategy development.
• Staff training and coaching.

Our expertise for start-up organizations involve:

• Business model development & analysis
• Business plan development and investor presentation support.
• Operational budget elaboration and stress testing.
• Market entry and competitor reaction assessment.
• New product/service launch and communication strategy.

Program & Project management

General program management and the design and implementation of one-off projects is an important activity in all organizations across any sector. A successful program and project development requires specific knowledge, know-how and operational skills to ensure optimal impact and results. Without these capabilities various risk factors (e.g., organizational, financial, operational) can jeopardize the success of a program or project within any organization.

Program and project management can be done in-house but requires clear methodologies as well as fully trained human resources. Using external resources to run program/project management yields the following advantages:

• External resources are tied to the scope and duration of the project, HR costs are then flexible and limited.
• External experts are fully focused and assigned to the project at hand, hence better enabled to deliver results and impact.
• Use of external resources avoids day-to-day operation disruptions.
• External experts bring deep and extensive functional know-how, acquired through similar experiences with organizations across different industries and geographies.

Agavis Consulting can help clients develop their own project management capabilities as well as provide project management support and capabilities to meet our clients’ needs:

• Identification of the best suited methodology.
• Planning, development and implementation support.
• Complete program or project management.
• Staff training.

Sustainable and ethical supply chain management

The constant changing market demands and competition in a global environment increase the complexity of managing a supply chain. When it fails to align with an organization’s strategy and sustainable values, supply chain management can have a sizeable and negative impact on companies and an organization’s operation. Effective and sustainable supply chain management can not only promote growth, but it also improves and consolidates the company’s image and competitive position.

Best practices have been developed by the UN Global Impact initiative, identifying 4 drivers for sustainable and ethical supply chain management:

• Values & efficiencies
• Stockholders expectations
• Regulation
• Global alignment

Agavis Consulting refers to this framework to help clients develop an efficient economical and sustainable supply chain. Assisting clients with:

• Risk mitigation – Securing supply – Operational efficiency – Supplier selection and management – Reputational benefit analysis
• Meeting stakeholders expectations – Verifying sustainable claims
• Meeting and exceeding legal requirements
• Standardizing processes – Securing natural resources

Agavis Consulting applies deep and distinctive operational and functional expertise to help clients surpass typical sustainable supply chain challenges. Our tailored solutions support your organization’s strategic objectives, minimize risks and facilitate operations.