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Nearly two decades in business have exposed Trudeau & Associates to a wide range of business situations, operational problems and organisational issues in its three main areas of practice

• Situation Analysis and Performance Diagnostics
• Strategy Development and Specification
• Business Performance Enhancement.

Situation Analysis and Performance Diagnostics

Situation analysis and performance diagnostics are essential first steps in the search for positive and sustainable change.

The passage of time, a concentration on the day-to-day and the complexity of agendas and situations that organisations experience often create a loss of perspective and focus. In addition, we seldom can be ‘in the organisation’ and out of it, directing its performance and assessing it dispassionately at one and the same time.

Independent assessments help refocus the organisation on its true priorities and give it the reference marks needed for targeted action.

Over the years, Trudeau's assessments have been used to analyse internal and external perceptions about an organisation’s performance, to measure board and executive team effectiveness, to gauge the health of major projects, to determine the appropriateness of organisation structures, to scrutinise complex processes for efficiency, to review the suitability of strategies in changing circumstances and to test the quality of risk management. They have also been used in formal investigations.

Strategy Development and Specification

Strategies are only ever as good as their translation into productive action.

From the earliest, Trudeau has helped clients to do three essential things in this area:

• To devise a coordinated body of strategies, expressed as realistic and actionable objectives
• To translate these objectives into integrated, actionable organisational and operational plans
• To articulate the whole into readily understood, concise and useful documentation.

We enjoy an enviable reputation in the field because we have regularly and consistently produced results that have made a material and positive contribution to our clients' performance.

In some instances, our intervention has enabled them to survive threatening circumstances. In many more, it opened the way to sustained business growth and to the development of the organisational infrastructure needed to support it.

Our consultative approach, our structured process and our stimulating facilitation have regularly been recognised and praised as some of the best on offer.

The combination has been one of the firm's distinct advantages in securing repeat business, year after year over decades.

Organisational Change and Business Performance Enhancement

Our interventions are designed to lift business performance in a real, measurable and lasting way.

Some engagements have tackled the remediation of complex critical processes. Others have been concerned with the introduction of different business models, including outsourced options. Others again have been aimed at modifying performance-limiting behaviour and culture sets, or focused on the success of major implementation initiatives – such as those that take place through mergers and acquisitions. In a number of occasions, the programmes have served to bring about marked behavioural change in specialised fields like the management of workplace risk and the improvement of safety.

A significant difference in the approach Trudeau takes to performance enhancement resides in our alertness to the many facets of organisational change.

It is rare that the introduction of significant change does not require parallel adjustments to behaviours, staff numbers and skill sets, organisation structure, key processes, information systems and related matters.

Our approach to change management orchestrates adjustments across the organisation in a manner that emphasises collaboration and minimises disruption.