This is a significant time for those who want to be the survivors of the future. Now is the time for correct strategic choices because the market will reward those who have developed themselves faster and more effectively than others. Correct choices and a commitment of the organization are the key issues.
To further establish our role, we offer the following questions below. By answering these questions, you can get a better picture of the situation in your organization.
Does your management team have a common vision based on Industry Foresight and the opportunities and challenges it provides for your company’s development?
Are your strategies creative enough? Are they based on the common vision and understanding? Do they include clear choices?
Have you implemented strategies in a way that everybody has their own common goals?
Does your present organizational culture support strategic implementation?
How about structures and processes?
Are all the parts of your organization aware of their own role in strategic implementation and achieving visions? Do every individual understand this from their point of view?
Are people committed and motivated to achieve common goals?
Is your management system integrated together both with strategic and operative leadership?
Are you able to measure and reward strategic success and able to conduct activities accordingly?
If you have answered No to just one of these questions, this tells us that you could benefit from VIA consulting.
At VIA Consulting we help our customers to understand and capitalize on future opportunities through strong unique competitiveness with the help of strong leadership and committed individuals.
The business environment sectors’ are changing both internally and the relationship between them. Structures, technology, customer needs, competition and companies are all changing – and we can not be sure how or when. At present the only possibility to succeed in the future is to take charge of change and define new rules for a more complex competition.
This is an enormous challenge and success requires that management teams possess a good understanding of the effects of Industry Foresight and their impact, a strong common will, which is crystallized into a concrete vision. We call this visionary leadership, the framework and competency of our consulting supports management in challenges of visionary leadership. This combines future and present, leadership and management, external and internal views. That is why our brand is VIA – From Vision Into Action.
A strategy is a choice and with strategy we will aim at something. But where?
Our strategic leadership is based on the vision and the definition of key choices to achieve the vision. We do not talk about only competitive strategy, which is the key strategy at the business unit level, but create parallel strategies for all organizational dimensions. However, designing strategies is not enough. According to research, we know that 90 % of companies, that are satisfied with their strategies, are not satisfied with their implementation.
This is one of our consulting corner stones: We assure strategy implementation by developing organizational structures, processes and designing management system. Both in communication and selecting the correct leadership tools we carry out implementation from the very beginning.
Modern leadership is called navigative management, because we have to simultaneously evaluate many factors and constantly make decisions like a captain in a turbulent sea. By making leadership a driver for our company’s success, we are already on the way to being able to organize our success.
Managing several goals simultaneously requires a balance between short and long term actions.
In order to find out if companies are going to succeed, they require several research results of their leadership, people’s commitment as well as of development projects and success with customers and as a last resort, the financial results that they have achieved. Instead of just following up the past, companies use the results to direct their development into the right direction and with the right speed. We have developed our competencies and tools based on the Balanced Scorecard. They can be used as tools for implementation as well as for leadership.
To implement a strategy is one of the most important challenges in a continuously changing market situations.
Networking between companies is accelerating, which is increasing the importance of managing interfaces.
If companies are focusing only on their own organization, their management system and structure, they obviously are loosing their own competitive advantage. In every strategic process the meaning of customer interface and relations to market is going to be emphasized. A company lives for its customers. Changes are rapid among the customers and they do not recognize all those possibilities that their partners could offer. It is not enough to only react to customers’ needs - companies have to be proactive to see customers’ needs. We call this Customer Leadership.
The concept of Customer Leadership is based on control of customers as whole.
Customer’s added value is increased by conceptualizing the activity in the network customer interface and by developing processes for that purpose. We have invested in developing models and tools for customer leadership consultancy and we consider it’s increasing importance in company’s overall strategy.
Drastic external variables very often effect more broad holistic change processes. In the situation companies require overall consultation in order to combine the change design and implementation together and to control it and measure the success. This kind of change process demands a deep renewal of people’s thinking and behavior. We call it transformational leadership, a concept that we have always focused on.
Value-based leadership consists both design of values and their standardization. Measuring and developing values is also an element of our service.
At VIA Group the VIA Intelligence team processes measurement systems to measure key elements in the change process. Also our company-tailored and open leadership programs within the Leadership Academy support the consulting process. We also offer our customers two-day executive management workshops and various development programs for the supervisory level.
We continuously develop our products and services to meet our customers’ business development needs and leadership. Our concepts help our customers to
