Strategy-Based Change Management

The 5-S process - Palomar's system-wide change management tool.

Change is the enduring challenge faced by every organization. Change management requires insight, a plan, action, flexibility and measurement. Mastering change is the only competitive advantage that can produce sustained success.

Palomar's 5-S process provides a model that dynamically enhances your organization's ability to thrive on and profit from change. The process drives success in established corporations, start-up ventures, governments, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. It can be applied system-wide from start to finish, or in stand-alone components customized to suit your organizational needs.
The 5-S Process
The 5-S Chart

Scenarios:

What are the likely futures of your business?

Palomar works with your organization as a project partner to provide crucial insights relevant to the current and future challenges of your industry or focal area. We enable you to see what impact future trends will have on your current strategy and what new opportunities are potentially available to be harvested and developed. The scenario exercise is based on a conceptual model (broad application) and is implemented using the best technical experts in your field (practicality).

Strategy:

What is your strategic intent to meet the future challenges?

As the future possibilities of your business area become clear, the Palomar team provides strategic intelligence and systematic analysis of potential strategies. This process equips the client to own and manage the selected strategy.

Structure:

How should you organize to pursue your strategic intent in a competitive environment?

Once a strategy is selected, implementation becomes the key variable. Palomar uses methods based on many years of experience in various industries to assist you in crafting the organizational structure that best addresses your strategic intent.

Succession:

What are the critical competencies that will advance your strategy and structure?

The common element to strategy and structure is people. Palomar will provide you with the tools necessary to assess your existent strengths and to build capacity in areas critical to your sustained success.

Scorecard:

How do you measure success?

Throughout this change process, success must be measured through benchmarks and real-time assessments. Palomar uses established methods combined with the most contemporary approaches to provide you with the objective tools needed to manage change one day at a time. This final component provides the pragmatic fiber necessary to bind strategic intent with real results.

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