People & Strategy practice
Strategic Solutions
Plans that never reach the projects meant to deliver them are where most transformations stall. We give your organisation a clear direction, then design the structure, culture and people to deliver it.
What it delivers
Six services, one strategic thread.
Organisational strategy
We help you form, execute and connect your organisational, people and technology strategy, with OKRs and a Balanced Scorecard to track it.
Organisational design
We map your business processes and design structures around them, so the systems you choose support how the business works.
Organisational culture
We shape the culture your people need to perform and thrive in a digital, data-driven workplace.
Digital transformation journeys
We advise and support your move from business as usual to an innovative organisation that adapts as conditions change.
Change management
We test readiness for change, then plan and run the change programmes that make transformation hold.
Enterprise risk management
We build risk identification, appetite, mitigation, monitoring and compliance into strategy execution from the start, with maturity assessments to show progress.
Why Edge
A 17-year track record in strategy
Our strategy practice has worked with customers for 17 years, across the private sector, the public sector and civil society.
Focused on leadership's strategic needs
We work with your executives and board, at the level where strategic decisions are made.
Strategy, people and digital, together
We understand how organisational, people and digital strategy affect each other, so a decision in one doesn't undo the other two.
A flexible approach
We shape each engagement around your organisation's needs and adapt our methods to fit.
Technology tools that support the work
We use data and technology tools to run the engagement and to measure its outcomes.
How we deliver
Diligence, diagnosis, design, delivery.
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Diligence
Understand the journey
We prepare your leadership and processes, communicate with the whole organisation, and open up what's possible.
- 02
Diagnosis
Find the current situation
We collect data and run focus groups, interviews and facilitated conversations, backed by SWOT and PESTEL analysis.
- 03
Design
Design the desired situation
We facilitate collaborative planning, using design thinking and scenario planning, and agree how it will be implemented.
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Delivery
Make it happen
We support implementation and leadership change, monitor progress, feed back what we learn and keep building capacity.
Selected work
Strategy that institutions run on.
Public sector · National Lotteries Commission
Annual strategy review, translated into a Balanced Scorecard
We facilitated the NLC's annual strategy review and translated the approved strategy into a Balanced Scorecard through staff workshops. We then implemented an electronic performance management system so the NLC can run it day to day.
Public sector · SEDA (Small Enterprise Development Agency)
Strategy facilitation and performance review
We facilitated SEDA's strategy and analysed organisational performance against its strategic goals and indicators. After consulting leadership, the board, staff and unions, we delivered a formal performance report.
Development finance · ECDC
Organisational renewal for financial sustainability
We supported an organisational renewal covering financial sustainability, repositioning and greater development impact. The work included analysing strategy and structure, designing workflows, a skills audit and a recapitalisation business case.
Industrial · Sasol
18-year employee relations strategy and culture partnership
Since 2008 we've facilitated Sasol's Employee Relations strategy and culture across all its subsidiaries. The work has delivered a new organisational model, new job profiles, a skills audit and a training programme for ER practitioners.
Sport · South African Football Association
High-performance culture, structure and performance management
We were brought in to build a high-performance culture, and the work showed gaps in structure and behaviour. With staff and the National Executive Committee, we built a new organisational structure, new job profiles and a performance enablement system.
Works with
Where this practice hands over.
Transformation fails at the joins. These are the practices Strategic Solutions hands over to, and what each one picks up.
A clear direction, and an organisation designed and ready to deliver it.
- Professional SolutionsTurns the strategy and roadmap into a governed portfolio of projects.
- Digital TransformationTranslates the target operating model into the digital journeys to build.
- Data ManagementAnchors digital strategy in a data strategy, so progress can be measured.
- Training SolutionsCulture and change work defines the skills leaders and teams need.
- Sustainability SolutionsBuilds ESG goals into the organisational strategy from the start.
- Cyber SecurityCovers the protective side of strategy: risk, security and compliance.
- AI Centre of ExcellenceSets the business priorities that AI investment must serve.
Talk to us
Set the direction your AI investment must serve.
Strategic Solutions sets the business priorities that our AI Centre of Excellence turns into owned, trusted capability.