Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Rallying Cry

World Leaders in Strategic Management
Powered by Systems Thinking

Why are we the world leaders? No other strategic management, planning or change consultant or firm uses Systems Thinking in their approach to Strategic Management (Planning-People Leadership-Change to Deliver Customer Value).

THE UNIQUE BENEFITS OF USING OUR SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH® ARE:

• It provides THE ONLY "Universal and Integrated Organizing Framework and Language" for leading planning and Enterprise-Wide change in an integrated, holistic fashion, the primary job of leaders.
• It is a simple ABCs Framework that anyone can pick up in 15 minutes or less and change their "orientation to life, work and Strategic Management".
• It's a holistic view of the organization as a system comprised of multiple parts, people and subsystems that is based in part of the Baldrige Systems Criteria for Performance Excellence.
• It focuses on the relationships between departments and divisions and helps you identify strategies that cut across all divisions and departments for a unified planning and change approach.
• It's a better way of thinking...starting with the future and working backwards to today. It is "the natural way the world works".
• It starts with the end in mind...your desired outcomes first....instead of a current state assessment where most other Strategic Planning efforts start. After all, if you don't know where you're going, how will you know which road to take?
• It is also based on completing a full Future Environmental Scan at the beginning of the process as well, using the Proprietary SKEPTIC Technology and Framework no one else possesses.
• Our approach is a Yearly Strategic Management System and Cycle that guides the day-day, week-week, month-month and year-year activities as it drives the results by everyone in the organization.
• We train you on how to cascade the process down to the lowest levels in the organization because we believe "people support what they help create". It ties into all Human Resource functions.
• We are experts in Knowledge Transfer as we always include developing the organization and certifying their internal Strategic Management cadre in this process.

OUR EXTENSIVE AND ONGOING RESEARCH INCLUDES:

Finally, we have done extensive research in both Strategic Management and Systems Thinking, including:

• Our Systems Thinking Approach® is based on 50 years of fundamental research, lead by four Nobel Prize winners of the Society for General Systems Research (GST), now ISSS.ORG.
• We have maintained a World-Wide Portal with an understanding of how over 150 firms are applying Systems Thinking in some form or other.
• We have researched the Systems Thinking world for the best thinkers in this area, comparing their research and concepts of Systems Thinking with ours.

• We have researched over 27 Strategic Planning and Enterprise-Wide Change experts and their processes vs. our Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management
• Lastly, we have researched over 29 experts and their books in the area of Leadership Development Systems in order to see how leadership in Strategic Management is viewed. Not one had a Systems Thinking Approach®.