Strategic Impact
Which activities drive the greatest impact?
The cake shop challenge
It's treat day and I've just arrived at the cake shop counter but I find myself in a real quandary.
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Faced with a huge, tantalising display of patisserie delights with some coated in chocolate, others filled with cream, a few topped with glazed fruits and several dusted in icing sugar, I have a big decision to make...which to pick?
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They all look delicious so my natural instinct would be to try each and every one. However, feeling the pressure of time, money and an increasingly restless queue forming behind me I'm forced to make a snap decision and pick only one.
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In the end of course, my cake of choice is nearly always the one which provides me with the greatest amount of pleasure...the double chocolate chip brownie!
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Interestingly though, after devouring my brownie I realise while a second cake might have been nice, it's unlikely to have offered quite the same amount of pleasure as the first. A third, fourth or even fifth cake seemed idyllic at the counter but now my cake craving has been satisfied, they no longer hold quite the same appeal.
Be selective...
The Law of diminishing cakes!
Cake Satisfaction Level
Number of cakes eaten
...focus on the big impacts
In a similar vein, businesses are often faced with a huge list of ideas but insufficient time and resource to carry them all out. They soon realise in order to achieve optimum performance and output they need to be selective in their approach and focus on just those key activities which deliver the greatest impact towards their goals.
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We'll help you choose the best cakes...
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Data Strategies Consulting helps clients maintain that focus and offers both analytical support of existing strategies and proactive guidance on future activities.
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By working in close partnership with our clients, we help uncover the goals or initiatives that produce the biggest impacts...and then we actively drive or support their delivery.
What support do Data Strategies Consulting offer?
We support clients with workshops, sprint and transformation projects. We’re your resource to bolster your team enabling the strategic process from development of business ambition through to implementation, results and ROI. We add value through impact analytics to complement the strategy. We keep it simple, focused and collaborative.