We already have a detailed five-year strategic plan from an expensive consulting firm. Do we throw that in the trash before we start working with you, or how do we reconcile it with the V/TO?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

You do not need to throw your existing strategic plan in the trash, but you must be prepared to strip away the fluff. Many expensive consulting firms produce beautiful, two-hundred-page strategic binders that sit on a shelf gathering dust because they are too complex to execute.

We will use your existing plan as raw material for our V/TO®. The V/TO® is a simple, powerful tool that forces you to answer eight critical questions, condensing your entire strategic vision onto just two pages.

During our Vision Building sessions, we will audit your current five-year plan. We will extract the genuine market insights, target market definitions, and core focus areas, and then translate them into our clear, actionable V/TO® framework.

If your existing strategic initiatives cannot be converted into clear, measurable Rocks or a simple three-year picture, they are likely distractions rather than strategy. We will keep what is valuable, discard the overly academic theories, and build a streamlined roadmap that your leadership team can actually execute every single week.