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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.”
-Sun Tzu
It starts with your strategy…but it doesn’t end there! Dragon Fruit Consulting fuels organizational success by helping you to align your strategy, technology, teams and projects, and providing you a roadmap to success.
With decades of experience in strategic planning, project execution, technology strategy and stakeholder engagement, we give you the tools to achieve, grow and flourish.
Book a complimentary 60 minute, no obligation, exploratory session to hear more about our process and how we can help you build the strategy your organization needs to succeed.
Strategic Planning and Priority Setting
It starts with your strategy - the roadmap that guides your organization from where it is today to where it needs to be in the future. That ‘map’ needs to navigate your operating environment - the market, the regulatory environment, changing technology, you name it. And, it needs to integrate your resources and future opportunities, and balance those against your constraints.
When done right, it makes it clear where you need to focus, how to mobilize your resources and what you can expect to achieve.
And when the process is done right, it builds communication, collaboration and the secret sauce that separates good from great - alignment!
The Dragon Fruit consulting team has worked with public and private sector organizations, large and small, to develop thoughtful, long-term strategies that are both ambitious and achievable.
We have led boards and executive teams through discovery and planning processes to uncover the root cause of problems, prioritize opportunities and identify the right issues to focus on.
Business Planning and Execution
You have a multi-year strategy, but you are struggling to gain traction…the first several months have passed, but you have yet to see meaningful progress or hit any of your KPIs.
You need an Annual Operating Plan.
If your strategy is the map, the Annual Operating Plan is your navigator, providing you with detailed directions. It sets out the specific initiatives you will take on, how they will be resourced, the milestones along the way, when they will be completed, and what follows next.
Without an implementation plan, your strategy is at risk of not materializing, or wasting precious time and resources…or both!
The Dragon Fruit consulting team has worked with executive teams to turn strategy into action by developing Annual Operating Plans that incorporate the strategic plan, team resourcing and capacity, annual budgets and ongoing day to day responsibilities, creating implementation and operating plans that turn strategic goals into tangible progress.
Strategic Project Leadership
Too often, critical strategic projects get layered on top of existing day-to-day responsibilities, leaving an inadequate amount of time and capacity to execute effectively.
Often organizations have the talent to execute on their core strategic initiatives, but they don’t know how to get their people, resources, milestones and change management practices aligned to make progress efficiently. The result is that projects stall and teams feel overwhelmed as they struggle to make progress and manage competing priorities.
The Dragon Fruit consulting team have led strategic projects, from IT transformations to standing up new business lines. We have organized multi-disciplinary teams, getting them aligned behind clear priorities, well-defined milestones and clear outcomes.
We provide project leadership to support execution of your strategic initiatives, clarifying project goals, identifying key resources, building schedules and mobilizing essential team members to create the conditions for success.
We work with project teams to ensure executives, clients and key stakeholders are engaged and consulted and remain aligned with project goals and deliverables through to completion.
IT Strategy and AI Adoption
You use a technology suite that comes with AI capabilities, but you haven't yet adopted them because you don’t know where to start.
Worse yet, you know your teams are using other AI tools in their day-to-day work, but you have no policies or controls in place to make sure your organization is protected.
You know you could be, and should be, using AI to be more efficient and keep up with your competitors and stakeholder expectations, but you don’t know where to begin.
The Dragon Fruit consulting team has worked with start-ups, regulators and government agencies to help them assess their IT capabilities and align their use of technology with their strategy, budget and risk appetite.
With a particular focus on AI and AI adoption, Dragon Fruit consulting can help you assess your current state, identify key gaps or needs to support AI adoption and work with you to build a plan to improve your AI maturity. Get started with one of our AI workshops today to get on the path to strategic AI adoption.
AI 101 - Getting started and aligned on the future.
AI 102 - Moving up the AI maturity scale, from understanding to adoption.
AI Implementation and Partnering
Once you have a roadmap to guide your AI adoption and maturity growth, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and execute on your implementation plan.
Chances are, some fundamental pieces are missing. You need a clear policy and processes and procedures to protect the organization. You need an implementation plan for technology adoption, including training, communication and change management.
Dragon Fruit Consulting can work with your technical and operations teams to build an implementation plan that achieves your goals while being responsive to your capability and capacity. We can provide:
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Policy development
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Process and Procedure Development
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Project Planning and Project Team Coordination
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Communication and Change Management
Stakeholder and Government Engagement
Today, organizations are scrutinized like never before, and issues can turn into crises in mere moments. In the age of social media, stakeholder expectations are sky high and their trust is often the currency required to achieve success. That trust is easy to take for granted, but when it’s gone, organizations feel it in an instant and the wheels of progress can easily grind to a halt.
The Dragon Fruit team has spent decades working in complex stakeholder environments, often working for, or with, government agencies. We have built and executed countless stakeholder and government engagement programs to build long-term trust, secure funding or policy changes and manage issues.
Whether it is to support the development of your strategic plan, to navigate the regulatory landscape, proactively improve relationships or manage issues, Dragon Fruit can build you a stakeholder or government engagement strategy that will protect your interests and support your strategic priorities. By decoding the public affairs landscape and providing ongoing counsel, we help organizations turn their relationships into catalysts for success.
