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Are the assumptions behind your strategy still true?
Test the thinking behind a strategic direction or transformation programme against independent stakeholder and market evidence, before commitment hardens into momentum.
What this looks like
Examples of who brings us in
- A strategy team preparing a multi-year plan, wanting to pressure-test its core assumptions before it goes to the board.
- A transformation programme months into delivery, needing an independent check that the original thinking still holds.
- A leadership team wanting to know whether internal confidence in a direction is shared by the stakeholders it depends on.
Relevant guides
How to Manage Internal Consensus Risk in Strategic Decisions
This guide explains how internal consensus becomes a source of strategic risk in banks, insurers and asset managers, and how senior leaders can spot and counter it. After reading, you will have a practical method for stress-testing agreement before it hardens into a decision you regret.
Why Internal Strategy Teams Miss Stakeholder Signals
This guide explains the structural, cultural, and methodological reasons internal strategy teams fail to detect stakeholder signals that later prove decisive. After reading, you will be able to diagnose where your own team is blind and put practical corrections in place before the next major decision.
When to Use External Stakeholder Intelligence: A Practical Guide
This guide explains the specific decision points where external stakeholder intelligence adds value that internal analysis cannot, and when it does not. After reading, you will know how to judge whether to commission it, what to expect from it, and how to brief it well.
Market Entry Intelligence for Regulated Industries: A Practical Guide
This guide explains how to gather and structure the intelligence you need before entering a regulated market, covering regulators, incumbents, distribution, and customer sentiment. After reading, you will know what to investigate, in what order, and how to convert findings into a defensible entry plan.
How to Test Customer Reaction Before Changing a Product, Service or Pricing Model
A practical guide to pressure-testing customer response before you change a product, service or pricing model in a regulated business. Readers will finish with a clear method for designing tests that produce reliable signals, protect the customer relationship, and stand up to internal and regulatory scrutiny.
How to Test Regulatory Assumptions Before Making a Submission
This guide sets out how senior leaders in financial services can pressure-test the assumptions underpinning a regulatory submission before it lands on a supervisor's desk. It shows how to identify which assumptions matter, how to test them credibly, and how to strengthen the submission itself as a result.