Business Consulting & Strategic Planning Services

For too many organizations, strategic planning is an event, not a process. The meeting ends with leaders strongly aligned and feeling good about the goals they have set. The “what to do” makes sense but the “how to do it” is missing and often doesn’t get done.

Method runs strategic planning as a process with dedicated space and time to analyze performance, examine market trends, solve important problems, and plan for the future. This results in evaluating the organization’s vision, priorities, and allocation of resources (e.g., human, equipment, financial, etc.) – that guides everyone.

Imagine everyone putting their best effort into achieving a common goal. Everyone using their unique skills and talents to enthusiastically head in the same direction.

Our Business Advisory Process

  • Initial Consultation

  • Strategy & Implementation

  • Continuous Improvement & Tracking

Professional Business Advisory Services

  • Strategic & Operational Planning

  • Performance Improvement

  • Organization & Human Resources Management

  • CFO and Executive Services

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Strategic & Operational Planning

Developing an effective strategic and operational plan for your business requires a complete understanding of the market and industry that you operate in. From the industry trends that may impact your business to global disruptions that are occurring right now and into the future. Creating a meaningful, realistic, and results-oriented strategic plan is critical for your organization’s current and long term goals.

  • Developing a vision, mission, and values in line with your long term strategy

  • Design thinking sessions

  • Customer service and user journey mapping

  • Establishing levels of governance

  • Staff performance management programs

  • Cash flow management and dividend policy development

  • Operational planning

  • Departmental plans

  • Business planning

  • Feasibility studies

  • Annual management review and planning

  • Organizational design

  • Project planning and workflow

  • Project management training

  • Lean process improvement

  • Governance

Performance Improvement

Defining specific goals and objectives within your organization, identifying key performance indicators to measure progress, establishing the systems and processes that will translate those needs into outcomes, and ensures your resources are focused on the right areas.

  • Business diagnostics (strategy, products and services, technology, culture, and people)

  • Business process improvement

  • Supply chain management

  • Program and service evaluation

  • Performance management plans

  • Developing key performance indicators

  • Financial dashboards to track key organizational metrics

Organization & Human Resources Management

Investing in your staff can have a tremendous impact on productivity within your organization. For people to be truly productive, they must connect to the vision, mission and values of your organization and understand how they contribute to the organization’s overall success. The most successful organizations understand that solid human resource practices are essential to enhancing their productivity and must be considered in the framework of your organizational structure, systems and processes.

  • Governance review

  • Transformation and change management

  • Leadership development

  • Succession planning

  • Workforce planning

  • Talent development

  • Equitable compensation

  • Performance management programs

  • Executive, management and professional recruitment

CFO and Executive Services

As your company grows, you may need executive services to help facilitate strategic planning, and identify opportunities for organizational improvement. At Method our team has experience advising small retail companies in the fashion industry to multi-million dollar construction companies.

  • Expert advice and monthly support

  • Strategic planning and organizational leadership

  • Business plan and pitch deck development, review and feedback

  • Investor and stakeholder reporting

  • Budgeting and variance analysis for board meetings

  • Business process design and IT systems in the workplace

  • Recruitment, team building, and performance management

  • Financial analysis and reporting under ASPE, PSAS, and IFRS

  • Risk management and internal audit

  • Organizational performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Startup, growth and expansion strategies

  • Reviewing business plans and strategic goals

  • Succession planning