Products and Services

Center of Excellence for Strategic Facilitation

Strategy-to-Action Alignment Workshops

Strategy Execution Planning and Facilitation

Strategic Leadership Training

Organizational Performance Diagnostics

Speaking and Keynotes

Why Work with S2R?

W. Edward Deming once said, “The knowledge needed to transform a system must come from outside the system.”

In addition the wisdom of Deming, our clients have told us there are several other good reasons to work with us:

1. We can help your organization plan strategy and execute major initiatives, programs, and projects and make things happen.
2. We bring real-world, cross-functional management experience in leading difficult change initiatives.
3. We bring an outsider's viewpoint that is objective, impartial and unaffected by the organization's politics.
4. We impart knowledge of our processes and skills to your organization from our 30 years of experience and teaching at Stanford University in the Stanford Center for Professional Development.
5. We bring a coherent strategy management process model adapted from our Harvard Business School Press book Executing Your Strategy and our years of leadership experience.
6. We assess the current reality of your organization's alignment holistically and come up with the most pertinent issues and questions for your management team to resolve.
7. We are passionate about what we do!

Some Potential Organizational Outcomes as a Result of Better Execution Discipline

• Organizational Clarity with Effective Outcome-based Strategy Maps
• Less Risk to the Enterprise, Fundamental Constraints Defined and Removed 
• Faster Results with Current Resources, More Value Potential Realized
• Retention of Key Performing Talent, They are Engaged with a Purpose 
• Organizational Learning Is Real via a Continuous Improvement Philosophy
• Stronger Competitive Advantage Because You Are Learning Faster
• A Better "Execution Premium" from Wall Street Analysts
• Know-how to Change the System through a Systematic Process
• Collaborative Planning Processes Transform the Organizational Decision Competence