The Marsh System ©

Need a Strategic Plan? We can help you... The success of your business is at stake!
How do you know where you are going, if you don't have a destination?

The MARSH SYSTEM © can be customized to match the demands of your business on-site or off-site. Turbulent business landscape demand new pathways. Your Competitors are adapting. Are you and your team prepared?The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Some companies in your industry will flourish over the next ten years. The Marsh System© can increase the odds your company is one of them.

The MARSH SYSTEM© enables complete business rejuvenation.
The MARSH SYSTEM© of STRATEGIC PLANNING needs to be evaluated against the cost of unrealistic, excessively complicated, opportunistic and unproven alternative processes

The MARSH SYSTEM© enables complete business renewal.

THE 10 Step Process:

1. STRATEGIC AIMS at Define client expectations, needs and outcomes
2. Pre planning
3. Pre session brainstorm - Form the Planning Team
4. Plan for the Plan
5. Review the strategic position: Discussions with executive team and collection of elevant business information. Gather information and understanding of critical issues.
6. Environmental assessment of employees, external survey of customers and executive management interviews
7. Strategic Planning Retreat or In-company to create the Strategic Plan
• Business purpose, values
• Vision
• Key results
• Gap analysis
• Critical issues (the alligator safari)
• Setting objectives
• Strategies
• Action plans
8. Evaluation and approval
9. Roll-out the plan: Communicate the plan across the organization
10. Accountability, reporting results, scorecard monitoring frequency

The TEN STAGES of THE MARSH SYSTEM© of STRATEGIC PLANNING represent a very practical no-nonsense process for unearthing the really important issues / dilemmas (alligators) facing your organization, and devising realistic and innovative strategies and tactics for dealing with them.

Pre planning:

• Identify specific issues outcome expectations and deliverables. Form planning task force; define information that must be collected to help make sound decisions.

The Process:

• Define business vision and mission: consensus on why the business exists, if it didn't exist how would customers, clients and people reinvent it, determine the primary business purpose, identify values, create image of what the future and success will look like.
• Examine the strategic position: Gather up-to-date information on internal and external critical issues.
• Agree result priorities: Calculating the Gap devising realistic and imaginative strategies for dealing with them. Define options for addressing critical issues and the results needed
• Identify next actions: who will do what, when and what cost.
• Roll-out the plan: Communicate the plan across the organization so everyone knows the game plan.

Assign accountability: Monitor the scorecard. Incentivise. Hold monthly or quarterly strategy staff meetings. Evaluate performance and what is happening. Make corrections based on key measurements. Manage activities to drive future results.