--CREATING STRATEGIES THAT WORK--

SCA helps clients develop corporate and business unit strategies that improve operating and marketplace performance. These strategies work in many ways –building businesses around "intangible" assets (such as intellectual property, brands, talent, and networks), serving unmet customer needs more creatively, as well as fostering improvements on many "traditional" strategic dimensions.

Our goal is to help senior executives take new perspectives on competitive strategy that build on their own market and competitive insights. We assist business strategists with a number of tools, including strategic performance management, balanced scorecard development, customer value definition, and competitive positioning analysis.

--DEVELOPING BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN STRATEGY EXECUTION--

Strategy is a dynamic process that has to be managed like any other process. 9 out of 10 strategies fail, not because the strategy is bad, because the execution is bad. What’s required is a system for managing strategy on a regular basis that breaks down the execution barriers. SCA has extensive experience in the development and implementation of Balanced Scorecards that deal with the four major issues that get in the way of successful strategy:

Vision Barrier – Less than 5% of the average workforce understand the strategy

Linkage Barrier – Only 60% of budgets are linked to strategy

Management Barrier – Less than 25% of management have compensation directly linked to successful execution of strategy

Executive Barrier – 85% of executive teams spend less than 1 hour per month discussing strategy

With statistics such as these, it’s no wonder only 10% of strategies are ever considered successful. If your strategy execution is experiencing performance problems, SCA can help improve your strategy through use of a balanced scorecard approach to strategy management.

As practitioners of, and original thought leaders in the Balanced Scorecard, SCA consultants have delivered over a dozen corporate, business unit, operational and IT balanced scorecards.

--DELIVERING THE VALUE DEFINED IN STRATEGY--

SCA is committed to helping our clients achieve world-class operations. We develop and define operational strategies and help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance. Our consultants are experienced in operations work and committed to finding solutions for clients.

Our work is expansive - we serve a wide range of industrial, process, and service-oriented companies. From insurance to telecommunications, to retail, to agribusiness, to transportation we help any organization align operations with strategy.

--ASSESSING AND EVALUATING THE FUTURE--

Forrester Research estimates 3.3 million U.S. jobs will go offshore by the year 2015. Many organizations are looking at the economics of just such a move. However, before jumping on the offshore boat, a complete assessment of the value proposition is required. SCA has a proven approach to help organizations determine whether they are offshore-ready. A complete assessment is required to ensure that your organization will harvest the expected economic result, and is also prepared for the impacts to culture and process. If your not, the economic return-on-investment will never occur.

If you are ready, SCA can help with establishing relationships with outsourcing vendors who can meet your needs. SCA maintains independent relationships with IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services. SCA will work with your management team to determine the best partner and help structure the best outsourcing deal for you. SCA guarantees complete independence from any service and works only for your best interests.