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Strategy and performance
Ron Dimon runs Spark Labs. He helped build enterprise performance management at Hyperion, Anaplan and Deloitte, and now helps leaders, founders and communities decide together. About Ron Strategy cycles that survive contact with the quarter: a clear choice about where to play and how to win, connected to the value drivers and metrics that will show whether it is working.
What we do
Strategy cycles, built on Playing to Win
Lafley and Martin’s framework, run in one of three formats: a one-day intensive, a four-session cycle, or the cycle plus a scenario phase.
EPM roadmaps
Where planning, reporting and analysis should go next, from someone who helped build the category at Hyperion, Anaplan and Deloitte.
Metrics that explain the strategy
KPI and OKR refreshes, metric decomposition, and management operating systems, built on value drivers rather than reporting alone.
Scenarios and outside-in planning
Scenario sets and PESTLE planning for decisions that have to hold up under more than one future.
Operating-model design and integration
Operating-model design and acquisition integration: who decides what, and how the work flows once the strategy is set.
How it runs
Every engagement runs the same three steps: map the system so everyone sees the same picture, convene the people who own it, and commit to a one-page plan with owners and dates.
The insight-to-action loop
Strategy cycles, EPM roadmaps and metric work each strengthen a part of this loop. The goal is a strategy that keeps learning after the off-site.A one-page plan is not the end of the work. It starts a loop. Data becomes information, analytics and insight. Insight drives a model, a commitment and action. What you measure, from results and time to value to ROI and total cost of ownership, flows back to re-forecast, set new constraints, share what was learned and track what is new. Collaboration runs underneath all of it: to start, to prove and to drive.
Who it is for
CEOs, CFOs, boards and nonprofit leaders.
Recent work
- A “Forward Fridays” strategy cycle for NCGR ahead of its November board meeting.
- EPM roadmaps for planning and finance teams.
Start here
Tell us what you are deciding, and we will reply to set up a conversation.
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