Accelerate Key Business Initiatives

Once your leadership team has aligned around and defined your company’s business strategies, vision, and values, they must confront the critical issues standing in the way of world-class performance and capitalize on the richest opportunities for growth and profitability. The Business Acceleration Teams (BAT) process is our proven methodology for accelerating an organization’s ability to deliver real financial results while simultaneously developing the leadership skills of a core group of change agents.

Applications of the process

Our clients have leveraged the Business Acceleration Teams process to drive forward progress and momentum on a variety of key performance levers for their organizations. Whether at the enterprise level or at the business unit/functional level, the BAT process has been used to accelerate transformative improvements in performance levers including:

• Revenue Growth
• Profitability Management
• Product and Service Expansion
• Operating Model
• Operating Footprint and Geographic Expansion
• Go-to-Market Model
• Sales Force Effectiveness
• Service Excellence
• Innovation and Product Development
• Operational Excellence
• Technology Modernization and Digitization
• Governance and Prioritization
• Organizational Design
• Post-Acquisition Integration
• ESG/Sustainability
• Talent Management

Outcomes of the process

Enhance the organization’s financial performance
The Senior Team selects a handful of strategic issues that will deliver quantifiable benefits if solved; teams assigned to these projects are challenged to develop practical, actionable recommendations that promise quantifiable returns. Addressing real issues and opportunities in real time enhances the learning experience and delivers a payback on the investment of the organization’s human capital.

Develop and assess a cadre of high-performing leaders
Working on major strategic projects with Senior Leaders and peers from across the organization gives each participant a unique opportunity to learn new skills, try new behaviors and gain a deeper, broader understanding of the enterprise. Members of the Senior Team, in turn, are able to coach, interact with and evaluate next-generation leaders from a variety of functions and regions.

Promote teamwork and boundaryless behavior
Project team assignments are made to maximize diversity of thought, experience, and skills; this diversity generates better ideas, more balanced perspectives and stronger recommendations supported by more segments of the business. Just as importantly, each team’s makeup requires participants to embrace teamwork and reach across traditional boundaries to produce the best results. Through BAT, participants dramatically expand their internal network, which they can leverage and call upon for years to come.

Features of the process

• A disciplined -rapid-cycle process to accelerate alignment, change, leadership development, and forward progress on critical issues and opportunities facing company
• A team-based approach to developing practical, actionable, measurable recommendations and implementation plans for accelerating results
• A cross-functional, leader-led intervention to break down organizational silos and build shared accountability for the success of the enterprise-level
• A way to embed new ways of working and new tools into the business through shared  experience and application to real business
• An opportunity to assess and develop a core group of leaders who are prepared to lead and drive transformation of the company
• A template for building high-performance teams that can be replicated across the business

Elements of the process

• Three workshops attended by senior team and project team members, with interim work between workshops
• Senior team members serve as sponsors of project teams
• Project teams composed of 6-8 of the organization’s “best and brightest” leaders
• Project teams are “leaderless”, self-managing, and empowered
• Project teams are tasked with delivering practical, actionable, measurable recommendations and implementation plans
• Project teams are tasked with managing stakeholders and ensuring alignment to recommendations
• Our consultants design, facilitate, and support all aspects of the process
• Our consultants coach sponsors, project teams, and individual participants
  

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