Strategy Consulting Services
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Strategic Development Corporation has specialized in providing strategy consulting services for nearly 30 years. Our expertise helps clients with:
Developing vision, mission, goals and strategies
Developing sustainable competitive advantage
Creating new businesses, names and logos
Refining product development and distribution channels
Conducting strategic and operational planning
Designing executive incentive compensation design
Restructuring equity and stock option plans.
 
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Critical Issues Management
Critical issues represent threats or opportunities that pose a substantial impact on your organization’s performance.  Resolving critical issues requires a "deep dive" in evaluating the very essence of your business.  This means having clear strategic intention so that these issues are viewed within a broader context.
 
The Seven QuestionsTM

Our consultants guide you in the resolution of critical issues by assuring there are clear answers to the most fundamental questions about your business.  These basic seven questions, and their corresponding elements of intention, include: which (choice), why (purpose), where (position), who (people), what (result), how (process), and when (action).

Clarifying which business you are really in, and why, provides a vital context for resolving critical issues. Knowing where you want to strategically position your business within your industry and what is most important for your business to achieve, influences how critical issues are most effectively resolved.

The Seven QuestionsTM planning framework has been used for decades to help our clients chart their future.  While these questions may seem easy to ask, achieving executive consensus as to the right answers often depends on having a seasoned expert to guide the process of discovery.

Every client we have ever had, regardless of the industry and market they serve, has benefitted from our guidance in applying The Seven QuestionsTM to their strategy development process.  The testimonials of our clients evidence the value of our expertise in the art of asking the right questions.

 

Client Testimonials

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"Your insights in assisting us to identify the best process to deal with the critical issues of a fast-growing business have proven very valuable."

  Howard Schultz
Chairman & CEO
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"Everyone has been highly complimentary about Norm's value-add to resolving major strategic issues. I recommend him without reservation."

  Elizabeth F. Otis
Director of Materiel
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“Norm Levy has been a valuable asset in strategically thinking about our firm’s future and critical growth issues. We look forward to a long-term relationship with Norm.”

  Jeffrey S. Lyon
Chairman & CEO
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