Developing strategy and new business models

We can work with you in a structured process to deliver strategy. This can be a sprint project with key stakeholders in a room. Or we can create organisational engagement across countries, languages, time zones and cultures. With =mc consulting there’s no one cookie-cutter model. We create a systematic but flexible process to suit you and the challenges you face.

We’re the leading exponents of the Strategy Map model in the not-for-profit world, having conducted almost 30 strategic engagements with global agencies including UNICEF, International Red Cross and Red Crescent and Amnesty International. We also help smaller domestic charities to improve their focus. Using Red Ocean Blue Ocean thinking and the Business Model Canvas we can help you identify the best framework to build a radical new business model.

These include:

Building Business Models

When the world changes you need to change. You may need to reimagine your whole approach, reinvent the services you deliver, or re-shape your Value Proposition. We’ve helped MSF international develop innovative offerings and Solidaridad improve its Fairtrade Value Proposition.

Red Ocean Blue Ocean

This emerging technique enables you to explore and develop radical approaches that might prove long-term game-changers. We’ve used this approach with MSF/DWB USA and France as well as UNHCR globally. Swimming in the Blue Ocean is not for the fainthearted, but it offers amazing rewards.

Scenario Planning

We’ve worked with the Mayor of London’s office, Greenpeace Asia and the British Red Cross to help them identify different possible futures. We then established what action would create or mitigate that future. In an unpredictable world scenario planning plus =mc consulting can help you create your own future.

Strategy Map

Strategy maps are an interactive and updated version of the established BSC approach. They are used by 50% of the world’s biggest companies, and now by social sector agencies like Action Aid, Smile Train, and the UK’s largest cultural venue Southbank Centre. =mc’s experienced team will guide you confidently.

Among the organisations we’ve helped are:

The =mc team walked us through what could have been a complicated strategy process with skill and sensitivity. They used models and frameworks flexibly that helped us to shape the questions we needed to ask and then helped us come up with the answers.
William Horam, COO, Smile Train International, NYC