What does Black Bear Strategy do?
Black Bear Strategy is a provider of executive management consulting solutions.
In less opaque language, Black Bear Strategy helps clients to solve complex strategic challenges, unlocking their organisations’ full potential. It does so by providing an end-to-end portfolio of strategic organisational advice, specialised project management and commercial optimisation projects.
Black Bear Strategy’s service portfolio begins with an assessment of the fit between an organisation’s ambitions and its actions. Helping owners and managers harmonise these aspects, forms the basis of the Strategy Analysis and Development offering. More often than not, this fit is not as congruent as it should or could be. Read more…
Moving away from the realm of theory, the focus then swings to finding a pathway to create or re-shape an organisation that delivers against the defined ambitions. Black Bear Strategy refers to this as Strategy-to-Outcome. This is a suite of action plans designed to transform the organisation as quickly as possible, with no internal legacy or red tape that may dilute the necessary steps. Read more…
The third discipline, Change Project Management, concerns itself with the execution of these steps in the most time efficient manner, without disruption or distraction to the organisation’s day-to-day business. Whether these changes are people, product or systems related, Black Bear Strategy relies upon years of experience in translating complex plans into a simple reality. Read more…
Frequently overlooked, a key determinant of success or failure of organisational change is Communication throughout the entire staff. Employees that are not 100% clear of their role and purpose in the path to success cannot be expected to perform to their full potential. Carefully crafted and easy to understand corporate storytelling is a key component of any strategy and change project Black Bear Strategy attends to. Read more…
With a wealth of practical experience in making commercial organisations perform better, faster and more efficiently, Black Bear Strategy offers Commercial Optimisation projects. These range from defining improved, more measurable indicators of success, re-shaping work flows, data automation to generating insight reporting routines. Read more…
Lastly, in reaching beyond the borders of the organisation, Black Bear Strategy offers Route-to-Market Strategy projects. Reaching the right consumers via an optimal direct or intermediate route is a key enabler for sustained commercial success. Having implemented large scale route-to-market initiatives in various industries across South Africa, Black Bear Strategy prides itself in offering a unique portfolio of services spanning from conceptualising organisational intent through to placing product in consumers’ hands. Read more…
So what’s different?
Black Bear Strategy’s work is outcome and implementation focused, actionable and custom designed to client and challenge. There is no room for regurgitated templates and stale, decade old ways of working. Your organisation deserves solutions that are as innovative, dynamic and fast-paced as the environment it operates in.
Black Bear Strategy’s approach is contrary to the common consulting philosophy of lengthy reports and high-level roadmaps. In keeping with this practical focus, Black Bear Strategy’s communication documents are highly distilled and refined for efficiency and rich insight to quantity ratios - a goal when achieved should make most reports and presentations obsolete.