Virtual Strategy Support Services
“Strategy without execution is hallucination” – Henry Ford
How fast could you drive those important strategic projects if you had more time and what impact would that make to your business?
What would you do if you had an hour of day support from a C-Level Strategy Assistant, supporting you with the data and analysis you need to make strategic decisions?
VASS, (Virtual Assistant in Strategy Support) is the answer, similar to a Virtual PA service, but utilising MBA-qualified C-level support, giving you tailored support, data, research, analysis and recommendations to enable you to make more informed and timely strategic decisions under pressure.
Virtual PA services have seen exponential growth over the last decade as Managers enjoy the benefits of their own dedicated PA, without the responsibility of employing a full-time member of staff and enabling them to pick up and put support as they and their business need. VASS, Virtual Assistant Strategy Support, work in the same manner, providing necessary support when you need it, and without the formal SOW as a consultancy piece. A VASS is essentially a C-Level member of your team without a day job, a manager without portfolio to directly support you, inform you to make the best decisions and keep focus on the areas you need to drive forward.
Where can VASS help?
Having a good natural strategic direction and leadership to take the company there comes naturally to most natural leaders but where most organisations often fail is in the following two areas:
- Taking the time to step back from the day to day and review the longer term strategic options
- Operationalising the strategy and rolling it through the organisation
Strategic Options Review
When we asked 20 leaders, over 90% said that they didn’t have enough time on a regular basis to put the time into this as they would ideally like, and that most of the structured time was spent around business planning kick off periods.
Use VASS services to support strategic options reviews through research, data and analysis, either as a specific project eg. for market entry methods, account planning, growth plans, or for rapid research support needed for immediate business options review eg. in the face of Black Swan events such as Covid-19.
Operationalising Strategy
A strategy is only as good as the consistent and effective implementation of it.
How it is communicated, managed and rolled out across the organisation and how every person in the organisation engages with the strategy in their planning and their day-to-day roles.