What We Do.
At Strategon, we partner senior leadership to put organisations on a winning path and mobilize the rest of their employees around the organisation’s future agenda. Advancing principles of a coherent, capability-driven, high performance organisation is the impact we want to have in all engagements.
We have worked with corporations to help mine and map their core capabilities in order to sharpen their competitive strategy.
Some clients have retained us to deliver a total organizational turnaround strategy solution that puts them on a new value creation philosophy, business model and execution ethos. We are trusted by public sector organizations looking to serve communities better and deliver services effectively.
We understand the government’s policy, strategic and fiscal planning frameworks deeply enough to help state entities and agencies sharpen organizational performance in line with their mandates.
Strategon Advisory Services
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Strategy and Leadership
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Organisational Transformation and Change
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Human Resource Business Solutions
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ESG & Related Work And Studies
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Strategy And Leadership
Strategic ability in executive teams remains a key cornerstone of organisational success and yet it can be the most ignored area of learning in most organisations. We have partnered clients in assignments ranging from formulation of strategy right through to developing custom implementation as well as performance evaluation and measurement frameworks.
Our Key Areas Of Expertise:
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Executive coaching on strategic leadership, short and long-range strategic thinking frameworks.
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Formulation of corporate and business unit strategies.
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Portfolio strategy development for multi-business unit organisations, multiple and geographically diversified asset structures as well as brand and product portfolios.
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Organisational alignment and cascading of strategic themes and goals, balanced scorecards, strategic projects and initiatives as an execution framework.
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Structuring of the strategy support unit, annual strategy process mapping, structuring of projects portfolio management office (PMO) and portfolio management processes.
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Fundamental business analysis looking at your organisation’s long term strategic positioning and strengths.
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Organisational Transformation & Change
When organisations consistently fall short of meeting their strategic goals and targets, the cause may well be in the misalignment and inefficiencies in its internal organs and processes. This may be the case even in organisations with a well-defined strategy.
Our Key Areas Of Expertise:
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Total organisational review backed by a strategy and operational performance audit.
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Organisational turnaround projects and roll-out incorporating strategy and business model development.
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Corporate restructuring projects as part of turnaround implementation or seeking operational efficiencies.
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Leading strategic change and corporate renewal.
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Business model redesign, process re-engineering and mapping.
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Organisational growth strategies supported by innovation techniques.
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​Functional/Support area impact and alignment assessments. Is the corporate center adding value to operating businesses? Is it efficiently structured, optimally resourced or is there a case for outsourcing?
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ESG & Related Work And Studies
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ESG strategy review and development.
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Human Rights due diligence and reporting based on the UN Global Compact 10 Principles Framework. Strategon is a member of the UN Global Compact Network in South Africa, having had more than a decade of experience working with organisations in the following key areas:
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Human rights surveys, risk assessment, mitigation plans, performance tracking and reporting (Listed Mining Company case study)
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Community Trusts investment strategy formulation, revenue modelling, implementation framework and community project management (Multiple listed mining company projects completed in the last 10 years)
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Stakeholder management and engagement strategy formulation, integration with brand and communications strategy (Case studies with multi-listed companies with global operational footprint)
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Socio-economic Impact Assessment studies using an in house developed impact assessment tool that can be customized to serve any organisation in any sector.
Strategon Executive Coaching
Our Philosophy
Does your organisation exhibit thought-coherence that is reflected in its decision DNA? Is the quality of thinking in senior leadership something that is demanded and tested for? Long-term growth and sustainability of corporations is increasingly under threat in a fast-changing, volatile, unpredictable and ambiguous world. Cutting edge leadership skills are now demanded across all industries as organizations need to cope, adapt rapidly and thrive under the most daunting operating conditions.
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A recent Wall Street Journal sited ‘strategic thinking’ as the world’s no.1 rated skill in corporate executives.
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Further research into failing companies has identified poor strategy as the reason behind 50% of all declared bankruptcies globally.
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Strategon Executive Coaching is a strategic thinking incubator for C-suite executives as well as operational leaders at multiple-tier levels, roles and disciplines, keen to develop their ‘strategic thinking and decision-making’ abilities. Our researched coaching methodology guides and supports any leader dealing with business or institutional complexity, to gain and maintain strategic orientation in short and long-term decision-making.
Strategic Counsel
As a chief executive/managing director or strategic business unit head, the pressures of running a complex organisation and meeting external stakeholder expectations can undermine the importance of investing time in thinking and leading strategically. You may be deeply concerned about issues like;
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• Are you growing as fast as you should relative to your industry peers?
• Are you competitive enough and how sustainable is your competitive advantage?
• Is your business or product portfolio complete and balanced and are you betting on the right horses for your future growth acceleration?
• Are your managers adding value in the respective portfolios they are managing?
• Is your corporate centre adding value to business units, is it optimally structured and resourced?
And a lot more…
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Our Strategic Counsel will:
• Provide a fresh perspective, ideas and insights on thinking creatively about issues and tough decisions you face as a senior leader
• Provide you with a ‘safe’ platform to experiment with ideas and project their impact on your organisation and your people before implementing them
• Provide you with honest, objective feedback from a ‘politics-free’ thinking partner
Deep One-on-One Strategist Program
The program targets organisations wishing to:
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Develop a new breed of BU managers to strategically reposition the organisation, its business units and operations. Restructuring or turnaround candidate companies would specifically benefit from the program.
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Develop strategic thinking ability in managers identified as part of a corporate talent and succession management program.
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Develop senior executives and BU managers recently appointed into complex roles and functions who may be functional experts in disciplines like engineering, finance, HR, marketing, IT, etc but lacking the requisite strategic leadership abilities.
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The program also targets Individuals wishing to:
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Increase their strategic IQ, raise their strategic thinking capabilities and improve their managerial and leadership performance
Manage strategically in key support and specialist roles like mastering strategic HR, strategic IT, strategic finance, strategic program office, strategic supply chain, strategic brand and product management and lots more….