Strategic Planning & Operational Priorities

Technology continues to be further infused into businesses, so the impact it will have on strategic business plans and operational priorities is crucial to understand.  

Strong strategic plans that drive optimal business results are accomplished by a balanced team comprised of business executives and experienced technology executives.  Working together, the strategy team can account for the following:

• TECHNOLOGY: Technology services are so woven into the processes and practices of business models that they are nearly indistinguishable from traditional strategic planning imperatives. 

• CYBERSECURITY: Cybersecurity risks are critical for company solvency, reputation, profitability, compliance – and therefore typically garner active scrutiny from the top of the organization.   

• COLLABORATION:  2020 has forced businesses to operate in a much more collaborative fashion as many employees are working from home or in a hybrid model of working from home / in corporate offices.  Emerging from this reality are a collection of technology-based collaboration tools that can help secure and smooth the employee interactions so they are efficient and effective for their work.  These technology tools are undergoing tremendous engineering and refinement, so business choices of these tools are critical for companies to ensure acceptable operational performance and that business targets are met or exceeded. 

Using a proven methodology for strategic and operational planning, and clarifying the contribution technology makes to reaching these goals, R20 can facilitate strategy sessions with your business leaders that enable the executive team to focus on the conversations, challenges, culture and learning moments that should occur in strategy discussions that lead their teams to holistic, realistic and attainable strategic plans.