Does your strategy give you a right to win?
Executives are struggling with developing and executing strategy. At PwC’s Strategy&, our pioneering approach, built on distinctive capabilities, enables companies to focus on their greatest strengths and gain a competitive advantage.
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In these rapidly-changing times, and with constant pressure to compete, it’s easy for business leaders to overlook a basic principle: Build from your strengths. When you understand what you’re great at, and design your capabilities and strategy accordingly, you can define how you want to compete, and shape your own future. See how an unconventional speed-skating champion has an important lesson for business leaders.
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Success stories: Winning through distinctive capabilities
Examples from Strategy That Works published by Harvard Business Review Press
Why Capabilities-Driven Strategy Works
How we can help you
The most powerful growth engines are made up of a handful of capabilities providing real differentiation in the market.
We can help you achieve sustainable success by growing in a way that fits your capabilities system and value proposition.
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True advantage comes from having a steady stream of offerings that only distinctive capabilities can deliver.
We can help you manage your portfolio and M&A strategy in a way that allows you to achieve sustainable advantage.
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A company with a strong alignment between its strategy and its operating model is like an engine firing on all cylinders.
We can help you develop an operating model that brings your strategy to life.
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The main purpose of a functional strategy is to enable the company’s strategy — not to achieve functional excellence.
We can help your functional leaders and units take on a more strategic role by enabling the company’s differentiating capabilities while still fulfilling their day-to-day transactional and expertise tasks.
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The engine of value creation is a system of capabilities that together allow a company to compete in a differentiated way.
We can help you identify your unique areas of strengths, and build and manage the capabilities that are required to win with your strategy.
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FAQs
- What is a capability?
- How does Capabilities-Driven Strategy + Growth work?
- What are the top-five benefits of a capabilities-driven approach?
- Why are coherent companies more successful in executing their strategy?
- How do you determine which capabilities to focus on?
- How can you measure the financial benefit of becoming coherent?
- Why should I choose Strategy& to help me develop my company’s business strategy?
A capability is a combination of processes, systems and tools, skills, knowledge and behaviors, and organizational structures that
allows a company to deliver a defined outcome. Focusing on a few important capabilities is what enables companies to connect their strategy [how they differentiate themselves] with their execution [what they do every day], creating real and lasting value for customers.
View more If you've done traditional strategic planning and wondered why strategies fail, consider this: Conventional business strategy approaches lead companies
to spend the majority of their energy and resources on studying the market instead of looking internally. Capabilities-Driven Strategy + Growth, on the other hand, by combining a market-back and capabilities-forward view, allows companies to identify attractive market opportunities that give them a "right to win" based on who they are and what they are great at doing. At Strategy&, we believe that long-term success starts with focusing on what your company does best. We help our
clients develop their three to six distinctive capabilities until they’re best-in-class and reinforce one another in a powerful system Then we align what our clients do well with the right marketplace opportunities. This creates a powerful growth engine — the kind that yields sustainable growth for years to come.
View more A capabilities-driven approach to strategy allows companies to become coherent, which leads to: Learn more about our approach
View more Coherent companies can more easily close the strategy-to-execution gap because they are clearly focused on the few capabilities that
set them apart from their competitors. In developing and enhancing those few differentiated strengths, coherent companies make sure that people’s everyday actions are in line with the strategy. Capabilities really are the link between firm strategy and execution View
more We start by identifying a company’s current capabilities. In other words, what are your greatest strengths today? What are you already great at? Next, we assess the market to understand which supercompetitors are likely to emerge: Then we determine how big the gap is between a company’s current capabilities and those supercompetitors. This allows a company to choose the supercompetitor they strive to become – and with it, the set of capabilities that they will need to excel at.
View more We’ve measured the financial benefit resulting from coherence in many different ways.What is a capability?
How does Capabilities-Driven Strategy + Growth work?
What are the top-five benefits of a capabilities-driven approach?
Why are coherent companies more successful in executing their strategy?
How do you determine which capabilities to focus on?
How can you measure the financial benefit of becoming coherent?
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Why should I choose Strategy& to help me develop my company’s business strategy?
Simply said, we provide our clients with business strategies that work. We leverage what your company is great at and have the scope, scale, and expertise to build out the capabilities your company needs globally. Having helped our clients develop and execute capabilities-driven strategies for many years has allowed us to develop a set of powerful tools that enable us to determine the right strategy for you, in an efficient and effective way.
We are clearly recognized as the strategists who invented Capabilities-Driven Strategy + Growth. We have been practicing and researching this methodology for many years and have published our findings in dozens of top-tier publications including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal.
In terms of scope, scale, and expertise, we are uniquely positioned to develop a winning strategy for your company. We bring more than 100 years of strategy consulting experience, plus the unrivaled industry and functional capabilities of the PwC network. We are a global team of practical strategists committed to helping your company seize essential advantage and build the capabilities required to succeed. We do it by working alongside you to solve your toughest problems and help you capture your greatest opportunities.
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