Christian Walliker — The Difference Between Large Consulting Firms and SME Strategy

1. Christian Walliker — The Difference Between  Large Consulting Firms and SME Strategy  There are a variety of large management consulting firms such as Bain,  McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (to name a few) that help organizations with  various issues, including strategic planning.  Difference Between Large Consulting Firms and SME  These larger organizations use their people power, both in number and in skills of  data analysis, to help business leaders make the best decisions and plans for  their organizations. These firms have access to abundant resources, and they  will charge you no less than a mid-five figures to work with them .  If you’re a small or mid-sized business (under 300 employees), non-profit  organization, or a public service or government entity, you likely won’t need the  extent of services that the big management consulting firms offer. If you did hire  one of those strategy consulting firms, you likely wouldn’t get the same  exceptional value from it as large corporations would, as you wouldn’t need the  array of additional services they offer.  Smaller management consulting firms that specialize in strategic planning and  meeting facilitation specialize in working closely with small and mid-sized  organizations to maximize value of their strategic planning cycles.  At SME Strategy, our purpose is to empower  leaders and their teams to make their visions a  reality. 

2.   We do this by:  ● Providing facilitation support: we offer a strong framework, outside  expertise, ability to keep the meeting on track, and an understanding of the  important questions to ask. All of these help to generate an aligned team  capable of implementing your organization’s strategic plan.  ● Doing the pre work to engage your team prior to your strategy meeting and  to find out more about your organization, and post work consisting of  meeting recaps and slideshow presentations.  ● Understanding that you may not have a half a million dollar budget to  dedicate to outside consultants to help you with your decision making and  strategy. We focus on providing your organization value in terms of cost,  time spent planning, and strategic priority development so that you can  move forward with your plan.  ● Focusing on alignment. We work with you to empower your whole team  towards the achievement of these objectives and creating the long term 

3. lasting change to get there. An aligned team is more capable of making  decisions that support the organization’s missions, visions, and values.  If you’re looking to figure out how to get aligned on the common direction of your  organization, how to establish priorities and action plans for your team, and how  to overcome resistance create the change for this new future.  SME Strategy can help your organizational development through one of our “  Aligned Strategy Development” ​sessions where we go through our process for  team strategic planning and alignment.