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Business Development & Strategy

Turn strategy documents
into day-to-day execution

CICL Corporate Strategy & Execution helps you move beyond slide decks and townhalls. We work with your leadership team to define clear priorities, translate them into measurable initiatives and build the rhythms that keep strategy alive in daily decisions.

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Corporate Strategy & Execution

Who we partner with on strategy & execution

Our work is designed for leadership teams that want strategy to be a real management discipline, not just an annual workshop or board presentation.

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CEOs & founders

Leaders who need a clearer way to translate their vision into priorities, roadmaps and accountability across the organisation.

Boards & investors

Governance bodies that require a structured view of strategy, risks, performance and execution progress across their portfolio.

Strategy & transformation offices

Internal teams tasked with coordinating strategic initiatives, but lacking shared frameworks, tools and decision rhythms.

Public & development organisations

Institutions that must align diverse stakeholders around clear priorities while meeting regulatory and social-impact targets.

Pain points

Strategy & execution gaps we help you close

We help you move from disconnected projects and firefighting to a disciplined, transparent and repeatable way of running strategy.

Strategy that lives only in slides

Beautiful documents and townhalls that do not translate into concrete, owned initiatives or changes in how people make decisions.

Too many priorities, unclear focus

Long lists of strategic projects with no clear trade-offs, leading to overloaded teams and diluted impact across the board.

No consistent execution rhythm

Inconsistent reviews, ad-hoc follow-ups and status meetings that focus on activities, not outcomes or learning.

Weak linkage between KPIs & strategy

Performance indicators that measure operational noise but do not indicate whether the strategy is truly working.

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Process

How we turn strategy into an execution system

We combine strategic clarity, portfolio discipline and governance design—so your teams know what matters, why it matters and how it will be tracked.

Step 1

Strategic diagnosis & focus

We clarify where you are, where you are going and what truly drives value—distilling your strategy into a handful of sharp, testable priorities.

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Strategic initiatives & roadmap

We translate priorities into a portfolio of initiatives with clear outcomes, owners, milestones and dependencies.

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OKRs, KPIs & success measures

We co-design a small set of outcome-focused OKRs or KPIs that connect strategy to team and individual performance.

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Governance & review rhythm

We design the meeting cadence, forums, decision rights and dashboards that keep execution on track and issues escalated early.

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Leadership enablement

We equip leaders and initiative owners with practical tools and facilitation skills to run reviews, solve issues and communicate progress.

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Beyond planning

Learning loops & strategy refresh

We help you embed learning loops—using quarterly reviews, retros and data—to adjust course without abandoning strategic direction.

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Services

Core strategy & execution capabilities

We meet you where you are—whether you need a strategy reset, an execution framework or a more disciplined governance rhythm.

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Corporate strategy design & refresh

Structured diagnosis, scenario thinking and strategic choice making that leads to a clear, well-communicated corporate strategy.

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Strategic portfolio & initiative design

From long lists of projects to a disciplined portfolio of initiatives, with defined outcomes, owners, timelines and resourcing.

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OKRs, scorecards & governance design

Practical frameworks that connect strategy to metrics, dashboards, meetings and decision rights across your organisation.

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Engagement models

Strategy support sized to your cycle

From focused offsites to full strategy-execution system design, we tailor the engagement to your calendar, governance and ambitions.

Leadership retreat focused on strategic choices

Strategy offsite & refresh

A concentrated working session to clarify direction, sharpen priorities and align the leadership team on key choices and trade-offs.

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Execution framework build

Design of your strategic initiative portfolio, OKRs/KPIs, governance cadence and dashboards for the next 12–24 months.

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Strategy office & PMO support

Ongoing advisory to your internal Strategy or PMO team as they run the first cycles of the new strategy and execution system.

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Deliverables

Your strategy & execution toolkit

We leave you with artefacts that your leaders, Strategy Office and teams can use and adapt—not just one-off workshop outputs.

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Corporate strategy deck

A concise, board-ready articulation of your strategic direction, themes, priorities and high-level roadmap.

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Strategic initiative & roadmap tracker

A structured tracker covering initiatives, owners, milestones, status, risks and dependencies—ready for monthly and quarterly reviews.

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OKR/KPI dashboard & governance calendar

Templates and guidance to run effective monthly and quarterly reviews, with clear forums, inputs and decisions.

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Results

Visible movement on what truly matters

We measure success by the quality of decisions, focus and execution that your teams demonstrate after the workshops end.

Alignment

Sharper, shared strategic focus

Leadership teams gain a common language and clear priorities, reducing internal noise and conflicting demands on teams.

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Execution

More disciplined delivery

With clear initiatives, owners and review rhythms, teams are better able to plan, deliver and escalate issues early.

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Performance

Clear line of sight from board to front line

Boards, executives and teams see the same picture—how strategic choices are playing out in numbers, projects and behaviour.

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Corporate Strategy & Execution FAQs

How we support your leadership team from strategy design to disciplined execution.

Do we need a strategy before we engage you?

Not necessarily. Some organisations come with a draft strategy; others simply have a sense of direction and current challenges. We assess where you are and design the right mix of strategy design and execution support.

How many people are typically involved?

We usually work with a core group of 6–15 leaders and initiative owners for design sessions, with broader involvement during communication and rollout as needed.

Will you recommend specific tools or software?

We are tool-agnostic. We can work with your existing tools (spreadsheets, project systems, BI tools) or recommend practical options based on your size and complexity.

Can you run remote or hybrid strategy engagements?

Yes. We facilitate both in-person and remote/hybrid sessions using digital collaboration tools, with clear pre-work and follow-up to keep everyone engaged.

How do you ensure the work is not just theoretical?

We anchor all design in your real constraints—budget, capacity, regulatory requirements—and build testable plans with near-term milestones and quick wins.

Can you help us cascade strategy to teams?

Yes. We support communication planning, team-level objective setting and leadership enablement so that strategy is understood and owned beyond the executive level.

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Data Protection & Confidentiality

Corporate Strategy & Execution work often involves sensitive information: financial performance, competitive positioning, risk registers, board papers and draft decisions. We treat this information with strict confidentiality.

Only the CICL team members assigned to your engagement have access to working files. Documents are stored and shared through agreed secure channels, with least-privilege access applied at every step.

We avoid including unnecessary personal data in strategy artefacts. Where we collaborate with your external advisors, they operate under their own professional confidentiality obligations and any additional agreements you require.

Any anonymised examples used for training, frameworks or marketing are carefully redacted so your organisation cannot be identified.

Our aim is to create an environment where your leadership team can be candid about the business, knowing that the information is handled responsibly.

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Let’s build a strategy and execution system that your teams can run with confidence—quarter after quarter.

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