Christian Walliker — The Difference Between Large Consulting Firms and SME Strategy

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Christian Walliker The Difference Between
Large Consulting Firms and SME Strategy
There are a variety of large management
consulting firms such as Bain, McKinsey, Boston
Consulting Group (to name a few) that help
organizations with various issues, including
strategic planning.
Difference Between Large Consulting Firms and
SME These larger organizations use their people
power, both in number and in skills of data
analysis, to help business leaders make the best
decisions and plans for their organizations.
These firms have access to abundant resources,
and they will charge you no less than a mid-five
figures to work with them . If youre a small or
mid-sized business (under 300 employees),
non-profit organization, or a public service or
government entity, you likely wont need the
extent of services that the big management
consulting firms offer. If you did hire one of
those strategy consulting firms, you likely
wouldnt get the same exceptional value from it
as large corporations would, as you wouldnt need
the array of additional services they
offer. Smaller management consulting firms that
specialize in strategic planning and meeting
facilitation specialize in working closely with
small and mid-sized organizations to maximize
value of their strategic planning cycles.
At SME Strategy, our purpose is to empower
leaders and their teams to make their visions a
reality.
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• We do this by
• Providing facilitation support we offer a strong
  framework, outside expertise, ability to keep
  the meeting on track, and an understanding of the
  important questions to ask. All of these help to
  generate an aligned team capable of implementing
  your organizations strategic plan.
• Doing the pre work to engage your team prior to
  your strategy meeting and to find out more about
  your organization, and post work consisting of
  meeting recaps and slideshow presentations.
• Understanding that you may not have a half a
  million dollar budget to dedicate to outside
  consultants to help you with your decision making
  and strategy. We focus on providing your
  organization value in terms of cost, time spent
  planning, and strategic priority development so
  that you can move forward with your plan.
• Focusing on alignment. We work with you to
  empower your whole team towards the achievement
  of these objectives and creating the long term

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lasting change to get there. An aligned team is
more capable of making decisions that support
the organizations missions, visions, and
values. If youre looking to figure out how to
get aligned on the common direction of your
organization, how to establish priorities and
action plans for your team, and how to overcome
resistance create the change for this new
future. SME Strategy can help your organizational
development through one of our Aligned
Strategy Development sessions where we go
through our process for team strategic planning
and alignment.