Assisting Strategy & Policy

Providing you with help to design strategy and policy that supports effective change and delivers successful outcomes.

Business Drivers

Every type of organisation is faced with drivers for change. 

Do you know what these drivers for change are? Their significance and likely impact? How will they impact your business strategy and what evidence do you have to support the strategic decisions you are now faced with?  

We have access to leading edge researchers and analysts who can evaluate the market trends, statutory obligations and economic drivers in your market place. We work in partnership with leading academic institutes to help our practitioners translate business drivers into real and meaningful data and analysis for Board-level discussions.

Impact Analysis

Our sophisticated impact analysis tools enable our consultants to work with your SMT in order to assess the pros and cons of the options facing you, including the critical 'do nothing' scenario. We are able to conduct ‘what if’ operational analysis on these options in order to help you achieve the mantra of evidence-based policy making. Our consultants can assess funding implications for achieving these options. We have experts in alternative funding streams as a means, for example, of achieving off-ledger accounting.      

Strategic Options & Selection

We can help lead and facilitate your SMT through the process of options selection. We mediate in order to ensure that important stakeholder opinions and viewpoints are taken into consideration and stakeholder alignment is retained in order to ensure successful outcomes. 

Strategy Definition

Framing the preferred strategic option is a key step in translating business drivers into strategic outcomes that help launch programmes of work. Our Trusted Associates research and produce thought leadership pieces, some of which you will find on our website. They are also experts in guiding your Board through facilitated workshops in order to frame and define future strategies. It is these Strategic Outcomes that are the seed corn for launching new programmes of work, which in turn deliver your business benefits. Our experts have experience in applying project management techniques in policy and strategy environments to ensure that Strategic Outcomes are delivered to cost and on time.

Associate Showcase

  • Val
    Market Access Specialist
  • Organisational Design Specialist
  • Programme Manager & Transformation Director
  • Programme Director
  • NHS Assistant Director & Project Leader
  • Transformation & Improvement Specialist

Case Studies

Practicus was engaged by the Department of Health to provide tools to help NHS CEOs, Board Members and Senior Managers gauge their organisation’s ability to deliver transformational change.