Stone + Company, a Boston-based management and strategy consulting firm, enables its corporate clients to deliver top results by transforming fragmented strategies or developing new ones into a cohesive game plan for achieving superior performance and true team alignment FAST.
By partnering with its clients’ leaders and executive teams, Stone + Company employs its unique Planned Advantage process to work quickly through core, systemic issues to identify paths to success. By developing and building upon strategic capabilities and leadership thinking, which can be applied to any stage of an organization’s growth, relationships and strategic development clarify and align. This creates sustainable success via a dynamic, elegant process designed to deliver rapid and effective results that a company and team can be proud of.
The Stone + Company Model
The Stone + Company approach is rooted in a model that enables clients to focus on their most critical strategic work so as to balance a results-oriented business perspective (financial, customers and employees) with a development-oriented business perspective (the work, the team and the individual). In our experience, it is only when an organization balances both results and how those are developed over time that it can and will achieve sustainable success. Via this strategic approach towards “working” the balance between critical results and key development needs, Stone + Company can provide continuous value to its clients. In partnership, we help our clients “work” our five step process to balance both results and development through iterations of continually planning, implementing, refining and building towards the next level to achieve superior results and sustain necessary changes in creating a nimble organization. To address the question of how to strike an appropriate balance, Stone + Company employs a five step process that we partner with our clients to work through.
The Planned Advantage
The Planned Advantage is a cyclical process that sets an organization on a course to build capability to mature to the next level, and thereby achieve sustainable top results. This process ultimately helps a leadership team strike a balance of focusing on results, choosing the right work to be focused upon, deciding how a team is going to work together, and clarifying how the individual team members need to be in order to successfully stay balanced to achieve essential outcomes. Our proven process is designed for clients that want to accelerate their strategic planning and execution methods, and are ready to commit to an annual process to take them to the next level.
The Planned Advantage process consists of five steps:
- Understand the client needs and what the return on investment will be for the leader, the team, the organization and the organization’s customers
- Gather input from stakeholder constituencies who will have direct impact on or will be impacted by the scope of the work
- Apply the analyzed data to the “wondering” work done by the leadership team—a necessary element to gain clarity in order to align on the right strategic work for the team; and the creation of a game plan that will accomplish clear outcomes and achieve ROI
- Upon creating a game plan, the leadership team refines the plan through a test and measure process and then implements the plan
- Lastly, results from the output are reflected upon, successes are celebrated, and learnings are inventoried, quantified and applied to address the next level of need.
Through our Planned Advantage process, Stone + Company has provided guidance and fostered great successes in such key areas as turnarounds, sustaining success, crisis management, team realignment and new team strategic development.
For more information regarding our client work please visit our website: www.stoneandcompany.com or call us at: 781.383.8383
