The Straforma Practice
Keep strategy alive as reality changes.
We help organisations decide what matters now, make the choices that follow and build the capability to keep doing that as conditions change.
Form is the coherence between what matters, your choices, how you allocate resources and what people actually do. Drift is what happens when those things move apart.
Strong Foundations
Good judgement needs something to be anchored to.
Strategy begins with the biggest challenges and opportunities between your current reality and your vision. It is where you place your bets about what to focus on, invest in, protect and decline.
Purpose
Why does this organisation exist, and whose lives or work should be better because it does?
Vision
What future are we working towards?
Reality
Which challenges and opportunities stand between where we are and that future?
Strategy
What choices and bets will we make in response? What will we stop or choose not to pursue?
Strategic Requirements
What must be true for those choices to succeed, including capability, capacity and the conditions for people to act?
Practice
How do those choices shape decisions, commitments, work and learning every day?
Ethos runs through every choice.
Ethos determines how you are willing to succeed and what you refuse to become in the process. It matters most when an attractive opportunity asks you to compromise it.
Start where the evidence points.
The Arena
Our signature simulation experience. Reveal how your people choose, align and adapt under pressure, then agree what needs practice.
The Diagnostic
See what’s drifting. See what holds. Examine the evidence behind alignment and drift, and identify what deserves attention first.
Value Reimagination
When your offer or operating model is losing relevance, work with the people who provide and receive value to decide what matters now.
The Immersive
A focused, facilitated workshop to practise judgement around a consequential strategic situation.
Continue in partnership.
A 90-day Practice Cycle connects what we have learned to the work your organisation needs to do. Together, we agree the priorities, make ownership visible, establish a rhythm and review what reality is telling us.
We distinguish confidence from capability, and capability from capacity. Knowing what to do is different from having the authority, time, resources and conditions to do it.
The Practice can be carried by your organisation and strengthened in partnership with Straforma. The aim is growing capability and organisational wisdom that survives changes in people and circumstances.
The Straforma Spine
Notice. Choose. Act. Learn. Keep responding.
Signal
Notice what is actually happening.
Sense
Make meaning of it, together.
Decide
Choose, and say why.
Commit
Commit so it holds under pressure.
Execute
Act with coherence.
Learn
Read the consequence.
Respond
Adapt without losing form.
This is an ongoing practice. Results and consequences become evidence for the next decision.
The Straforma Platform
Support the Practice. Focus human attention.
We are building a connected platform, component by component, to connect strategy to real work, make emerging drift visible and preserve the decisions and learning an organisation should remember.
The Practice works with or without the Platform. Technology helps people see and carry more; people remain responsible for judgement, challenge and consequential choices.