From complex strategic issues (how to plan and execute a corporate acquisition) to day- to-day activities (how to effectively delegate), the person at the helm sometimes needs a sounding board—someone who has struggled and succeeded through similar issues.
Prerequisite for Success
“How do I ensure that our strategy delivers results?” CEOs ask themselves a myriad of questions on a daily basis. They know that having a strong strategy is a prerequisite for success. Often, however, chief executives do not pay enough attention to the nuts and bolts of business operations.
Stratford Managers Corporation works with you to improve business operations; clarify corporate objectives; focus on organizational structure, roles and responsibilities, and delegation techniques; business review practices; and more.
Results Oriented
Stratford clients confirm it. Working with us, their CEOs are more effective; their organizations have greater strategic clarity; and their operational practices are improved through better use of metrics and better HR practices. Better corporate strategy accelerates shareholder value creation through faster revenue growth and increased profitability.
Corporate Strategy Services
Stratford Managers provides:
CEO Mentoring
- Meet regularly with CEO to improve performance, which translate to improved company results
- Provide strategic advice (what to do)
- Provide execution advice (how to do it)
- Introduce executive management tools
Strategy
- Develop a detailed analysis of internal capabilities (strengths and weaknesses) and external environment (opportunities and threats)
- Use proven approaches to understand target markets and customer profiles
- Facilitate a comprehensive strategy development process to articulate a clear set of operational initiatives that will drive and maintain competitive advantage through distinctive differentiation
Execution
- Align resources to corporate objectives
- Review organizational structure
- Review roles and responsibilities
- Implement business review practices
- Implement tracking mechanisms and metrics
- Improve business operations
Special Projects
- M&A: Advise and implement acquisitions, mergers, and partnership formulations
- IPO: Prepare, execute, and participate in follow-on investor relations activities
- Governance: Advise and implement or improve boards of advisors or boards of directors; design of basic governance practices; selection and recruitment of board members, and design of board self-evaluation activities
- Change Management: Advise and implement specific changes, such as those required as a result of significant expansion
Interim CEO Services
- Run a company during an inter-regnum period, including strategy formulation, planning, operational leadership, team development, and more
- Work with or chair selection committee to hire full-time CEO
Take the next step. Call 1 877 325 2688. Email jim.roche@stratfordmanagers.com.
