Setting Your Organisation on a Trajectory to an Improved Future
Welcome to Beyond Default
If you are looking for a different approach to developing strategy and delivering transformational change you’ve come to the right place. In his Foreword to our book, Don Tapscott says that ‘This is not a time for tinkering. Strategy is coming to the fore once again, and Beyond Default provides the tools to take strategy to the next level’.
If you’re an independently-minded leader of a company, business function or transformation programme, who is prepared to challenge the norms and do what is needed – rather than go with the flow – then you will find the Beyond Default approach refreshing.
If you think that the world is changing at an ever-increasing pace and that traditional approaches to developing strategy and transformational change no longer work in today’s increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, we can help you respond to this challenge.
If your colleagues don’t share your sense of urgency and continue to act as though everything will be okay and the future will simply be ‘more of the same’, we can help you confront your organisation’s default future and take action to put it on a trajectory to an improved future.
If people in your organisation say “we don’t have a strategy”, we can help you develop one or communicate the one you have in a more meaningful way. If they say “we have multiple strategies that are in conflict”, we can help you get alignment. Equally, if you’re unsure whether the transformation programme aimed at executing your strategy will be successful, we can assess whether the conditions for success are in place.
If your leadership team is not aligned and its behaviour is sending conflicting messages to the organisation, we can help you resolve this through our collective leadership experiential learning journeys.
If you’re looking for a thought-provoking keynote presentation at your Board strategy day, leadership retreat, team offsite or company conference we can do that – once COVID-19 restrictions have been eased!
If you’d simply like to know more about the Beyond Default approach to developing strategy and delivering transformational change, take a look at the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos. Equally, if you’d like to know more about our book Beyond Default why not read the Introduction and watch Don Tapscott’s Foreword. And if you’d like to receive our quarterly bulletin, sign up now.
For more than 25 years my colleagues and I have helped many leaders confront the default future of their team, business function, organisation or community. We did this in a way that best suited them and the challenges they faced. Whether that was through our strategy development, strategy execution, coaching or leadership development services our focus throughout was always on helping them put their organisation on a trajectory to an improved future.
Finally, if you feel that your chances of success would be greater with outside help, but you don’t want to use one of the big firms or traditional strategy or change consultancies, get in touch we’d love to explore how we can assist.
Dr David Trafford
Co-author, Beyond Default
Managing Director, Formicio
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"Many business books claim to change the reader’s perspective and offer a new way of looking at strategic management. However, few live up to their claim. Beyond Default offers a wonderful and welcome exception."Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship London Business School