Growing Your Business: Strategic Planning Consulting Services

Focus Your Efforts. Create a Blueprint for Growth.

Powerful business strategy clearly defines a company's overall goals and objectives, but puts them through a "reality check" by measuring them against actual market conditions. With markets in a state of constant change, a focused set of quantitative and qualitative evaluation criteria regarding market segments, customer behavior and competitive positioning can give you the business insight you need to improve your company's performance.

Increased sales and profits are rarely won through a guessing game. Those companies that ask the tough question and are determined to learn the right answers -- even when some answers are unexpected or tough to take -- are the companies that anticipate change best. By creating and executing a flexible strategy, your company can compete with greater confidence and win in the market place more efficiently and effectively.

Our Strategic Planning expert advisors will work with you to:

• Create a strategic plan that serves as a blueprint for growth for your company
• Clearly articulate your company’s mission, vision and goals
• Assess your internal environment as well as your competitive strengths and weaknesses
• Better understand your customers’ requirements
• Capture market feedback on a regular basis to assist you in becoming more proactive
• Use customer feedback/needs analysis to improve your products and services and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Test new product development ideas at an early enough stage to be able to take corrective action, assess market acceptance and target initial customers
• Allocate company resources more efficiently and effectively
• Empower employees to contribute key strategies to achieve business goals
• Coordinate operational improvements to increase your competitive edge

We’ll also help you zero in on promising new markets and prospects through our Market Analysis services which identify and prioritize new customers and markets, analyze those markets for growth opportunities and confirm your most promising prospects with a combination of primary and secondary research that minimizes your risks and costs while increasing your sales potential.

Market Analysis and Strategic Positioning round out Catalyst Connection’s Strategic Planning Consulting services.

Results and References

Catalyst Connection has a superb track record for helping client companies achieve significant results from their strategic planning efforts. For example, Straightline Cabinet Corporation realized a fivefold increase in its backlog of orders as well as a significant expansion in geographic reach, as a result of the strategic plan we helped them develop.

CONTACT: Bryan J. Fischer, Managing Director, Business Growth Services, 412.918.4282