Practice Areas

What Strategic Management Means to Us

For over a decade, Wedgewood Group has partnered with successful leaders to set priorities, align resources, and drive accountability at all levels of their organization. We work with leaders to accomplish their top goals in a way that not only drives short-term success but long-term results. From our learning experience with clients, we developed the Strategic Management Roadmap (SMR)™

Plan
Strategic plans provide a framework for organizations to initiate and execute large-scale change within their organization in a systematic way. Using a deliberate path allows leaders and front-line team members the opportunity to see how their everyday work connects to long-term strategies.
ImplementOur implementation methods allow organizations to improve key business processes, accomplish critical projects, and create an environment that values workforce analysis, succession planning, leadership, and cross-functional skill development to maximize individual capabilities.EvaluateTransparency allows organizations to show stakeholders and senior leaders where they are succeeding. In turn, it provides an opportunity to identify where they are struggling. Performance measurement is the method that organizations utilize to demonstrate how and what they are doing with hard data. Wedgewood Group incorporates a variety of methods, including harnessing and optimizing technologies and systems, to develop the right metrics that give relevant answers. We help clients establish a system to track progress and ensure accountability for strategic goal execution through the use of dashboards, scoreboards, and individual performance agreements. 

Wedgewood Group’s proprietary SMR is a framework for all levels of an organization to set clear direction and implement action plans that connect an organization’s passion and potential to maximize results. In its entirety, our SMR is a proven system to plan, implement, and evaluate success, but our SMR can also be tailored to meet our client’s specific needs.

• Processes: Leaders often look to the processes of an organization to identify efficiency opportunities to help the business function more efficiently. Our clients lean on the expertise of Wedgewood Group to review and improve processes through our proven improvement approach. Our clients are responsible for delivering a wide-range of services to a variety of stakeholders and efficient processes are a solid way to demonstrate that the organization is doing what it is there to do and in the best means possible.

• Projects: We use effective project management methods to assist our clients in implementing their most important projects. Our clients leverage the project management expertise of our project teams to ensure activities remain on schedule, at or under budget, and within identified quality specifications.

• People: The most important part of any organization is its people. Successful leaders realize that it is vital that team members are trained for the responsibilities at hand and are prepared to handle what may lie ahead. Effective workforce development is critical to maintaining an effective organization with the right mix of skill sets that allow it to fulfill its mission. Wedgewood Group partners with clients to analyze areas for improvement and develop the right solutions that fit the needs of their workforce. Whether it is the deployment of mentorship programs, training, certification or knowledge of graduate degree programs, we help our clients maintain a workforce with the right and relevant skills that are needed to be successful.

Technology Integration

Technology development in any organization relies on the collaboration between staff and systems. An advocate of the 50/50 dynamic, Wedgewood Group focuses on integrating software to service the employee and the operations they support. This dual track of end user integration with tool development is what makes Wedgewood Group the unique catalyst in executing our client’s most critical objectives. Enterprise collaboration tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server have increased the capacity for integrating business intelligence and operations, becoming the engine defining organizational performance. Wedgewood Group’s unique track record of change stems from integrating personnel in step with your systems, enhancing your execution of strategy, and bridging the gaps between the technology and user.

Communication

Developing strategic plans is the most effective way to implement fundamental and long term change within an organization. However, without effective ways to explain how these plans work and why they are being undertaken, they will not be executed. Getting the message out to team members through visuals and collateral pieces help demonstrate how they will be the ones driving the change and constantly communicate the long term goals of an organization. At Wedgewood Group, we pride ourselves in our ability to communicate and market large scale initiatives to all members of our client’s organization. The support we provide is a key contributor to the success of our clients.

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