Better Decisions | Better Outcomes
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Research shows that 50% of Business Decisions Fail.
That's simply too great a risk when the stakes are high.
You can do better.
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The Lockstep Method™ helps you determine the Best Options when faced with High Impact Business Decisions that Require Strong Cross-Functional BUY-IN.
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We help you Identify and Secure Alignment around the Business Opportunities with the Highest Impact, Best Organizational Fit and Greatest Odds of Success … in under 90 days.
Developed for executives, by executives and road tested by real businesses, the Lockstep Method™ is a new approach to decision-making designed to address the root causes of disappointing outcomes. The Lockstep Method™ is derived from leading research from organizational behavior, sociology and psychology to better manage team dynamics, individual biases and reduce decision-making errors. LEARN MORE
The Lockstep Method™ helps teams feel good about working together and take ownership of decisions and outcomes, but not in a "feel-good" way. You won't see trust-falls, walls of sticky-note brainstorms or need to share "something people don't know about you" with the team. Instead, our process gains credibility through full participation, constructive debate, transparency and rigorous analysis.
Consider...Moving just one High Impact Decision from the Losing column to the Winning column can have a material impact on business results (and career trajectories).
The Lockstep Method™ Uses the Simplimental® Framework to Help You Manage Complexity
Teams that can effectively manage complexity make far better decisions. The Lockstep Method™ relies on Simplimental®, a process which helps teams break through clutter to focus on the decision-making factors that matter most.
The best choices are those that are most SIMPLE to execute and provide the greatest INCREMENTAL value.
SIMPLIMENTAL = Simple X Incremental
Increase BUY-IN & EXECUTION of Key Decisions with a Trust-Building, Transparent process that nurtures the best of both Individual and Team Decision Making
TEAM DECISION MAKING
INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING
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ADVANTAGES: Individuals are better than teams in coming up with creative and novel solutions.
CHALLENGES: Much like everybody believing they are good drivers, people are overconfident in their decision-making abilities. People are unique, so they view the same data through very different lenses.
The Lockstep Method™: Uses expert facilitation and proprietary algorithms to mitigate personal biases and focus on the most important decision factors.
ADVANTAGES: Teams are better than individuals at recognizing and adjusting for individual biases.
CHALLENGES: Team decision-making is complicated by differing personalities, agendas, priorities and too often a lack of trust in the process and fellow participants.
The Lockstep Method™: Reduces team friction with an intuitive process, clearly defined roles, transparency & balanced participation.
UNLOCK Organizational Knowledge
Unlike conventional consultants, we believe that no outside source can equal the collective knowledge and insights of your own employees. The challenge is most organizations don't know what they actually know; or they struggle to access and synthesize this knowledge into actionable insights.
The Lockstep Method™ helps UNLOCK organizational knowledge, so that everyone has the relevant information needed to make informed decisions.
"Decision-making can be lonely at the top. The Lockstep Method™ gives me, and my board, the confidence that the choices we make are the very best."
"When a decison truly matters, I know of no better approach than The Lockstep Method™ to get my team rowing together"
“Powerful and intuitive, The Lockstep Method™ helped shift our decision making from a largely subjective approach to a truly objective one.”
Effective across all Business Disciplines and Industries
EXAMPLES WHERE WE CAN HELP:
INNOVATION/GROWTH PRIORITIZATION:
Align the organization around innovation and/or growth initiatives that will have the greatest impact, best fit and highest odds of success. An objective way to direct resources to the strongest opportunities and wind down weaker ones.
ACQUISITIONS:
Identify the most attractive adjacencies and/or targets with the greatest upside, most significant synergies and strongest organizational fit. Keep due diligence focused squarely on the most important factors.
POST ACQUISITION RAPID EXECUTION PLANS:
Quickly determine gaps between the investment thesis and realities on the ground. Align new and incumbent management against the highest impact initiatives with best fit and highest odds of success to drive ROI. Complete transparency between management and board.
STRATEGY EXECUTION:
Strategic choices have no value unless executed. Sharpen and refine a pre-existing strategic plan for better execution and outcomes. Bring new or old strategies to life and quickly put points on the board, by focusing on those opportunities with the best potential outcomes.
LEADERSHIP CHANGE:
Achieve strong Buy-In for an execution-based plan following an acquisition, change in strategy or leadership. Helps a new leader quickly get up to speed on organizational capabilities & constraints, and key personnel while securing authentic buy-in for plans.
BUY VS. BUILD VS. PARTNERING DECISIONS:
Increase confidence and buy-in around critical strategic and/or investment decisions.
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50% of Business Decisions Fail.
Don’t leave key decisions to chance.
Expect Better Outcomes from Better Decision-Making with The Lockstep Method™.
