• This is a service for business leaders who understand the significant value that comes from reading what other companies in similar circumstances have done. They understand that innovation comes from adopting best practices from outside a sector. Leaders are not siloed thinkers. They make time to learn from other sectors and bring in new ideas to disrupt their sector.
• Completed strategy studies.
• Winning >$1 million consulting strategy proposals.
• Workshop tools.
• Consulting templates.

This service is only available to FC Insiders, who can view similar studies on StrategyTraining.com, and therefore know what to expect in the KMS.

All the studies are complete, and the proposals outline unique methodologies—the type of content you have always seen on StrategyTraining.com. See the full list above.

This program is for leaders who understand the value of being able to read and understand how peer companies have tackled difficult problems.

Imagine the value of being able to understand the complete analyses and processes a company used to respond to attacking competitors?

Imagine being able to see the proposal that led to a series of multi-million dollar consulting studies? What would be the impact on your career if you could use our proposals to do the same?

Download the PDF deliverable and share it with clients and colleagues.

Everything is archived online in one place.

1. While each engagement is different—averaging between 150 and 500 slides—they are usually structured as a series of updates to the client so our members can see how the engagement developed. FC Insiders will be very familiar with our unique approach to structuring engagements from StrategyTraining.com. Each engagement contains most of the following sections, though there will be some differences between engagements.
   1. Executive Update 1
      1. Objectives
      2. Timeline
      3. Engagement logic
      4. Analysis structure
      5. Executive Summary
         1. Focus Interviews
         2. Focus Groups Interviews
   • Initial Hypotheses
   1. Initial Business Case
      1. Financial decomposition
      2. Benefits levers
   2. Supporting Appendices
   2. Executive Update 2
      1. Engagement overview including objectives and timelines
      2. Executive Summary & Initial Findings
         1. Top-down business case
            1. Financial review
            2. Value gap analysis
            3. External benchmarking
            4. Internal benchmarking
            5. Total opportunity
         2. Stream findings
         3. Stream hypotheses
      3. Executive Update 3
         1. Engagement overview including objectives and timelines
         2. Bottom-up benefits case & Initial recommendations
            1. Finding per stream
            2. Opportunity charts
   • Benefits charts
   1. Cumulative benefits
   1. Implementation Plan
      1. Engagement plan, logic, timelines, and resourcing
      2. Stream charters, timelines, and resourcing
   • Pilot
   4. Executive Update 4
      1. Engagement overview including objectives and timelines
      2. Recommendations
      3. Pilot implementation
         1. Initial quick-win results
         2. Next phase of the pilot

Elite firms can, and usually do, produce simpler proposals. The brand recognition of the firm typically leads to the sale, not because the proposal is unique. Our proposals are different because we have many boutique firm clients who need proposals with distinctive methodologies to differentiate themselves from larger firms. Therefore, where possible, our proposals contain:

1. A distinctive approach/methodology
2. Timelines
3. Where possible, suggested pricing/resourcing based on a premium practice in the US

This is our private KMS system that we use and make available to eligible FC Insiders. It will always be updated.

We do, however, encourage members to not focus on the volume of content. It’s not about how much you go through. It’s about the impact you have from understanding one document.

Pick one study or proposal and understand it. If, for example, you are helping your company develop a digital and IT strategy, it will take time to understand the full study we loaded – you will have to work through it more than once, determine how to implement the thinking in your teams, and achieve a result. Your business is unlikely to be using the advanced methods we have. It will take time to roll this out within your business.

Know your outcome. Your outcome is not to just be well-informed. The outcome is to change your business and career in a materially significant way.

That said, this is a sample of what is coming…

1. Financial Services Product Strategy Study: building the segmentation model and country product strategy, and overall strategy
2. Banking Market Entry: market entry strategy, identifying target expansion countries, identifying product strategies, and the long-term business case
3. Postal Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy Study: short-term survivability assessment, viability assessment, options assessment, turnaround design, asset carve out, and turnaround execution
4. Multinational Industrial Restructuring Strategy Study: product line management assessment, strategic market plan, sales optimization, supply chain reorganization, invoicing and collections, customer support, and aftercare service strategy
5. Petrochemical Restructuring Strategy Study: management scorecard development, sales and marketing top-to-bottom audit and strategy, finance and administration reorganization, procurement and supply chain strategy, and distribution planning
6. Bulk Chemicals Restructuring Strategy Study: channel review, product assessment, sales force optimization, overhead and cost analysis, quick wins, strike teams, and full business case
7. Bulk Chemicals Restructuring Implementation Program: product strategy and pricing, implementation pilot, building an integrated customer service center, business management processes, quick-strike teams, service value analyses, and benefits tracking
8. Board and Executive Leadership Alignment, 3-Day Strategy Intervention: develop new strategy, align new strategy, gain agreement, culture assessment, leadership vs. management, conflict management, personality style management, how/what/why to delegate, and executive action plan
9. Port Expansion and Restructuring Strategy Study: organization design, market segmentation, support services analysis, capacity planning, port rationalization plan, skills and competencies assessment, and business case
10. Banking Wealth Management Strategy Study: market sizing and potential, market structure and regulations, competitor strategies, customer needs, product analyses, and gap analyses
11. Multinational Industrial Salesforce Effectiveness Strategy Study: targeting and forecasting, sales planning, needs analyses, quoting, order generation, ERP systems planning, invoicing and collections, callbacks and follow-up, and relationship management
12. Investor Relations Strategy Study: how to analyze shareholders, segmentation model, shareholder views, understanding value in a sector, shareholder vs. company needs, what is value? What is value for this company?
13. Infrastructure Funding Strategy Study: capital structure impact, financing requirements, optimal capital structure, recommended funding instruments, cost of funding, and business plan
14. Marketing Strategy Study: brand equity analyses, customer segmentation, brand charter analyses, segment prioritization, and strategic levers, communication strategy, marketing plan, budgeting, and business case
15. …and more

This is an individual subscription. Sharing subscriptions is against our terms of service. However, team subscriptions are allowed. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

You can download anything and everything in the library, in PDF format.

Downloaded materials can be used for deliverables for your clients and your organization. However, it cannot be used for resale, publications, courses, teaching videos or competitive service offerings. If you need to use slides for purposes other than deliverables for your client or your organization please contact [email protected] to request written approval, subject to our discretion.

You may cancel your renewal at any time, before the renewal goes through. For any questions please email [email protected]

In most countries, subscriptions to any of our programs are tax-deductible since they can be classified as a training/career placement/search expense.

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