Business Strategy & Operations
StraDigi works with start up ventures and established businesses alike to solve their toughest strategic and operational challenges. We bring together deep industry insight, analytical rigor and creativity to help our clients:
- Develop and refine an executable STRATEGY for your business
- Build efficient and effective OPERATIONS to scale up your business
- Relentlessly focus on IMPLEMENTATION to help you win in the marketplace
Develop and refine an executable STRATEGY
for your business
In order to succeed any business needs to answer two fundamental questions: “where to play” and “how to win”. StraDigi enables companies conceive and refine executable strategy by finding pragmatic answers to these questions. Our approach to working with clients is unique, being adapted based on individual circumstances and the stage of our engagement.
We frequently start off with basics, helping to articulate business vision and objectives within the context of external market conditions (such as customers, competition, regulators as well as macro trends). Once aspirations and initial answers to the "where to play" question are defined, we continue to assess business and operating models, solving the "how to win" part of the equation. Being clear and deliberate about the capabilities needed to succeed in the marketplace, we identify existing resource requirements and develop actionable business plans to close the gaps
it is imperative to align organisation's value creation process, accountabilities and governance systems to the customer priorities
Finally, developing a strategy is never finished... A strategy normally relies on a set of assumptions and hypotheses, which need to be continually tested and refined, based on internal factors as well as external environment. StraDigi seeks to challenge our clients' thinking to ensure that the strategic plans are clear, data-driven, executable, resilient and capture major risk mitigation scenarios.
Build efficient and effective OPERATIONS to scale up your business
Turning a winning strategy into impactful business results relies on having efficient and effective operations in place. StraDigi helps clients set up cross-functional operating structure throughout the company's value chain, ranging from the overall design of optimal service delivery model to individual disciplines of product development, IT, sales and marketing, procurement, finance, manufacturing, logistics and distribution.
For established businesses, StraDigi can diagnose the improvement potential for your operations as well as prioritise, plan and implement the changes which stick well beyond completion of our engagement. By analysing critical value and productivity drivers within the business,
we are able to identify and help to deliver prioritised changes to align the operating model to organisation's strategic objectives
The changes range from process improvements (eg using Lean or Six Sigma methodologies), missing capability development through to supply chain reengineering and end-to-end enhancement of customer service experience.
One particular focus area is on which business functions can safely be outsourced in order to realise your growth ambitions or achieve cost advantages. By analysing company's strategic options, we assist clients with rapidly scaling up their operations without the burden of overspending Capex and carrying massive fixed cost. Whatever the scope is, StraDigi delivers measurable gains in efficiency and effectiveness to our clients' operations.
Relentlessly focus on IMPLEMENTATION
to help you win in
the marketplace
It is well known that great strategies often fail during implementation. Many companies have a sound strategy and efficient operations yet fall short of delivering the full value of the change, being unable to translate conceptual ideas into concrete actions or operationalise target changes. Hence, it is crucial to focus the organisation on disciplined execution from the onset and sustain the effort till the transformation itself becomes "business as usual".
In order to achieve rapid, tangible and impactful change that sticks, StraDigi’s involvement in every step of implementation from piloting to post-implementation control ensures efficient and effective strategy lifecycle management. In contrast to singular or discrete projects, we help clients develop superior strategy execution capability in-house, facilitating a cultural change and enabling the organisation to implement autonomously well after our engagement concludes.
This involves rolling out necessary "hard" processes, structures and systems, setting up targets, accountabilities and governance as well as focusing on critical behavioural "soft" factors, such as securing people's buy-in (compelling rationale for change), ensuring task clarity (KPI's and incentives), building capabilities and establishing a leadership model to remove potential roadblocks. Having deep expertise in each of these areas,
StraDigi helps clients rigorously implement their strategies with sustainable impact
Whatever your strategic goal is, StraDigi Solutions will assist in achieving it in adherence to your time, quality and cost targets.
Customer use case
Setting Strategy and Establishing Operations for a Beverage Company
Venture capitalists willing to invest in the Australian FMCG sector turned to StraDigi for advice. Starting with the basics of identifying local customer needs, conducting market research and business case assessment, we progressed to developing a unique value proposition for a novel soft beverage in a niche segment. Strategy further partnered with the client to build their entire business and operating models. We mapped the optimal value stream, helping the start-up with sourcing, procurement, manufacturing strategy, led supplier negotiations, handled legal requirements (contracts, entity, regulatory) and positioned the client for achieving market success.
..The breadth and depth of StraDigi expertise
across business domains plus laser sharp focus on meeting our objectives allowed us to supercharge our initiative form concept to market in the matter of
weeks. Any other consulting firm would struggle do deliver as much value...
A.S., Co-owner – Innovative beverages
(FMCG / CPG industry)