Business Management System

Many businesses struggle to develop and deploy effective and executable strategies. No matter your size, all team members must understand their role in strategic execution, which equates to corporate success. 

The Business Management System (BMS) is a management process used to evaluate your current business environment, determine your strategic direction, and create the foundation that links strategy to tactics throughout the organization.

HOLOS’ Business Management System is the North Star of the HOLOS Leadership System in your organization’s journey to reaching optimal success. We put you in control of reaching your goals by aligning your vision, mission and strategic intent and then successfully deploying them.

Our Approach To BMS Implementation

Our approach is collaborative, forming a team with key leaders within the client organization and developing the business strategy in five main phases.

• Baseline Assessment: Together, we reaffirm the organization’s mission, vision, and values, establishing a strategic context. Together, we evaluate the current state in terms of internal factors/strengths (financial, operational, product lineup, customers, and supply chain), external factors/weaknesses’ (market, industry, competition), opportunities, and threats (SWOT Analysis).

• Formulation: Using a variety of facilitation tools, our management consultants collaborate with the team to formulate the 1) strategic vision, 2) value proposition, 3) competitive differentiation and 4) strategic alternatives. This phase includes development of a high level “strategic story,” a narrative that is powerful, compelling, and easy to remember.

• Specification: Together, we now develop the plan in more detail -- 1) objectives,  2) A 3- to 5-year road map,  3) key metrics. 

• Planning: Strategic growth initiatives are drawn up for each functional area. In this phase, we also build the business case along with budgetary requests (operational/capital).

• Execution: Carrying out the strategic plan includes assigning responsibility for each initiative, program/project and organizational change. 

Many business strategy projects are long on planning but short on action. We mitigate this by identifying the most critical issues (the “critical few”) and expediting 3-5 of them directly into execution. This allows for quick development and tracking of executable action plans while continuing to develop the full Business Management System. This approach delivers faster results and reveals any [potential] issues that the organization might have in execution.

BMS Tasks and Activities

• Establish Strategic Intent

• Identify Core Competency

• Align Performance Measures

• Balance Business Processes

• Identify Strategic Breakthroughs

Collaborative Approach for Success

An analogy for a successful Business Management System (BMS) is to think of your company being on a journey.  BMS helps you clearly define the final destination and then to plan the exact method to get there! This allows the organization to shift paradigms and embrace beneficial change by aligning employees on a uniform path.  

Together, we will:

• Create breakthrough experiences that forge innovative growth within the organization.

• Define and sustain incremental operational improvements in productivity.

• Provide your team with a clear message and purpose – creating leverage for everyone to fully engage in the change process.

• Learn to evaluate the overall performance of the business and its progress towards objectives.