HPA Senior Advisor Bob Kaplan shares his personal framework for a successful virtual office space and simple, but meaningful ways to avoid common frustrations.

As my contribution to the dialogue on how to cope with COVID-19, let me share with you my Peak TV recommendations.  I hope you can find some gems in here that you haven’t yet discovered, to help you through some of these funky days and nights. 

A healthcare services provider was looking to supplement its rapid organic growth with a series of acquisitions and partnerships. They sought a highly experienced team to help strategize and operationalize continued rapid organic and inorganic growth.

A medical diagnostics company sought to increase penetration in the rising molecular diagnostics market through organic or inorganic growth strategies. They sought an outside partner to conduct an opportunity assessment.

Assuming a strategic plan is sound, there are many factors that determine the success of a company’s change initiative. Oversight from a Project Management Office (PMO), enables a strong path for success and provide early warnings when a project is derailed and work to help get it back on track.

An industry-leading, technology-driven healthcare services organization sought a management consulting partner to accelerate, design, and support the consolidation and integration of several of their back-office operation centers across multiple geographies. Working with the client to first prioritize billing office integration, our team then began to assess the healthcare client’s current and target systems, rollout plan, resources, and project management approach.

A multi-billion dollar global investment, development, and management firm sought a highly effective and experienced partner to support its first long-term strategic planning effort.

A multi-billion-dollar, global branded beauty goods firm and retailer, sought external partnership to drive a comprehensive market landscape assessment across the U.S. to develop its optimal portfolio strategy and identify organic and inorganic growth opportunities.

For companies in the midst of transformation, a Project Management Offices (PMO) is typically viewed as a necessary expense that should be run as lean as possible. However, we believe a well-run Project Management Office has the power to bring structure, focus, and speed to enterprise-wide change initiatives and process improvements.

An impactful Strategic Plan centers on making strategic choices around a company’s most critical go-forward imperatives, and then aligning its executive team and resourcing around those decisive imperatives.

If your company is contemplating a strategic planning effort, HighPoint Associates recommends four core principles to help sidestep pitfalls and get meaningful value out of the effort.