Developing strategy should be fun! We ask the deep and curious questions to enable you to gain confidence and clarity around Where You Will Play and How You Will Win.
Then we progress to the Must Wins, enabled by the Must Haves, culminating in structured yet agile execution plans that establish effective steps for accountability.
Simultaneously, we focus on the people side of strategy, to obtain buy-in to the big moves, and alignment on which levers to pull, as well as when and how to pull them. This empowers you to bring about that precious game changer, or to simply operate better-stronger-faster, to optimize productivity.
“PowerPlay has been a key partner in facilitating strategic management sessions and in building cohesiveness and alignment within the leadership team. This has played a significant part in Stanbic Uganda progressing towards its strategic goals and continuing to maintain its leadership in the market.”
Patrick Mweheire, Regional CEO Stanbic Bank, East Africa
“We highly recommend PowerPlay to any organization looking to develop strategy, enabling mechanisms and action plans whilst also building a team which draws on it’s collective strengths.”
Yusuf Karimjee, Chairman, Karimjee Jivanjee Group
“PowerPlay’s approach is both responsive and creative. They excel at stimulating inclusive conversations which gets participants asking the relevant questions and then creating and owning powerful ideas and solutions.”
Lamin Manjang, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank West Africa
“Their facilitation and stakeholder management is exemplary. This together with partnering our senior management team in critical conversations has laid a formidable foundation for our successful culture conversation. We highly recommend PowerPlay to any organization looking to transform their culture.”
Anuj Mediratta, CEO, Gulf African Bank
“PowerPlay’s professionalism, depth of knowledge and ability to engage the entire team in developing ownership in the strategy process is excellent.”
Frank Mai, Head of Finance & Administration, GIZ
We supportively challenge your leadership team to ask the most important question “How will you get everyone (from players on the ground to executive team members) to move together in the direction you want, at the pace you desire?” In tandem with strategy development, we facilitate a process that will enable your leadership team to engage deeply and emerge from the strategy room with clarity on how to:
Culture is about what you believe, how you make decisions, interact and work together. As you develop the culture you want, will you be able to achieve a successful and sustainable change in behaviors? We design and deploy culture journeys to:
We partnered the internet services division of a large telco to build a focused growth strategy in 2017. The success of the strategy lay in the team’s ability to de-prioritize resource allocation to certain areas of the business, and re-prioritize resources to big moves. By sticking with this strategy they achieved a 22% growth in market share over a two-year period.
Delivering a ‘cultegy’ solution to a regional corporate and investment banking team in mid-2018 saw this division embed a winning culture combined with a focused growth client strategy which generated significant revenue growth in the following year.
We co-created a fresh strategy with a young management team at an automative brand. Clarity and commitment around aspirations, strategic priorities, thematic goals and must wins led to comprehensive execution plans which were tracked and monitored over the following year. We have proudly observed that despite the difficulties brought about by the recent pandemic, over 65% of all strategic initiatives are progressing on target.