Managers know there are many different tools available to
help understand industries, markets, competitors, people and processes. There are tools to help understand how these
are interacting with each other. But
knowing more about which tools are available, and which tool to use when is
what sets T|M|G apart.One of the great criticisms of consultants is that they use a favourite methodology, contradictory assumptions and a popular grab bag of fashionable or faddish processes and present these as some kind of "recipe". With more than 50 "tools" in the kit, T|M|G has made it a core competence to understand what tools work best when. T|M|G works with you to create an approach to strategy development that...
TMG works with you to create an approach to strategy development that combines:
- Tools with which you organization is comfortable
- Tools that extend your strategic skill and
insight and
- Tools that attack the main issues or challenges you face
A couple of examples will illustrate the point well.
Perhaps you are a B2B
services organization with a lot of face to face client contact. You service a wide geography and provide a
narrow band of specialized services to the industry you serve. Such firms are likely (though T|M|G reserves
its opinion until we meet) to favor a learning or emergent approach to strategy
development. They frequently struggle to
plan or unify branding or messages, have trouble defining what they do, need to
address what value is best delivered centrally and what should be delivered at
brand or consultant level and often have a low level of insight into
competitive advantage. Positioning,
Alignment and Mapping analysis and tools will probably help.
Alternatively, you may
be a consumer goods manufacturer with a myriad of customers and an intensifying
requirement to be globally competitive both in reach and scale. Such firms are likely (though T|M|G again
reserves its opinion until we meet) to favour a positioning and planning
approach to strategy development. They
frequently struggle to harness innovation and often adapt poorly to market
differences or change. Whilst they
frequently enter new products and markets, they have high failure rates with
internal management often reporting unrealistic expectations, unresponsive
resources and rigid constraints. Complexity thinking, greater emphasis on non-product based analysis, a
Delta or MMM framework and values based leadership, for example, can be very
useful here.Every assignment is, of course, different.
TMG is not fad or methodology driven. We are therefore free to call upon the right approach to meet you needs. We do not need to define your issues in terms of our methodology. Rather, we need to help you define your needs and then agree with you, the tools that will best help address those needs. We believe you get a better tool for the task this way.
Further, T|M|G is not built upon a leverage model. We are not geared to having a team of juniors working on you.
Instead, we leverage globally available
R&D specialists, data resources and work teams on a casual, needs
basis. If helping you only involves one
consultant, that's fine. If it needs a
research team analyzing a market or competitors, that’s fine too. We believe this enables you to use us as a
far more cost effective tool in your strategy development.
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