It is a reflection on evolving situations, shifting conditions and emerging approaches to new or established business endeavours.

It is, first and foremost, an opportunity for those who set an organisation’s direction to take ‘time out’ in a flexible yet structured environment, to revisit their thinking, test it and extend it in a forum that is designed for that purpose, under active and probing facilitation. Typically:

• We call upon the client’s best corporate resources and create a forum for structured yet free-flowing debate

• We guide and support the activities of that forum

• We use research to generate insights and alternative approaches to existing views

• We draw on our experience of change patterns in other industries and countries to challenge perspectives, bring propositions forward and stimulate the exchange of ideas

• We steer the debate to conclusions and decisions on preferred paths or commitments to further exploration within well-defined project frameworks, and

• We document discussions in a manner that not only preserves the essence of the discussion, but also serves as a management tool to progress the reflection further into tracked actionable items.

The result is a far sharper understanding of the directions the organisation must take for its longer-term survival and sustainability. The debate defines the broad but specific goals and outcomes the organisation must achieve. In so doing, it defines precisely the space within which detailed business planning budgeting should take place, as well as providing a strong frame of reference for strategic decision-making.

Clients in banking, insurance, mining, property, construction and development as well as government have called on Trudeau & Associates’ strategy development expertise since the Firm opened its doors – and returned to it on a regular basis, year after year. We offer services in:

Direction setting

Corporate strategy

Scenario development

Business unit strategy

Major project planning

Change management

Options definition and assessment

“It is a matter of some pride that we have been so closely involved in our clients’ growth over time, to see their performance improve consistently and their market position rise. We are particularly pleased that, in a number of instances, their positive results were recorded at times and in environments where almost all of their competitors were turning in lacklustre or worryingly poor results.”

“We have assisted young companies to move into the ‘major league’ in their industry, just as we have assisted established entities move up the ladder to some of the top positions in their field. It is a privilege to be associated with such developments, and to know that clients have extended the association over time due to meaningful assistance”, comments Benoit Trudeau, Managing Director.