For you as an individual or your organisation, would you say that …

• Innovation and openness to change are evident?
• Awareness enables anticipation and adaptation to benefit from external changes?
• Active monitoring of the external environment is done effectively?

By enabling people to look at things differently we have helped individuals and groups of people to gain insight into how they occur, how they are perceived by others, and from this they can then adapt and take more appropriate approaches to overcome difficulties.

Within organisations we have created and supported the delivery of programmes to increase commercial awareness and provide the context for change; these have involved business schools, business simulations and internal competitions to engage people at every level.

We encourage the use of strategic thinking tools like PESTLE analysis and scenario planning as part of a systematic approach to gathering data in an organisation’s environment. The use of benchmarking and competitor analysis also provides insight that can prove useful when considering an organisations’ brand, its strengths and image with customers. We use customer interviews to gain objective feedback that influences decisions about products, prices and positioning.

Sustainability is an issue for both organisations and the environment, adapting effectively to ensure a long-term future. Unfortunately, many customs and practices in organisations focus on short-term gains and results; but this does not remove the responsibility of leaders taking the strategic view and promoting changes for a sustainable future. We facilitate change to improve performance and stay ahead but also to address how people think and behave within the organisation as part of a culture shift to engage with a sustainable environment.