Strategic diagnosis precedes and prepares the foundation for rigorous organizational decision making.  As an essential first step, it provides analysis and an opportunity to identify current state functioning and potential future state scenarios.  ODR brings a wealth of experience, an open style of engagement and innovative yet practical approaches to exploring and selecting organizational strategy. 

We recommend the most appropriate diagnostics tools and methods for the organizational context, environment and maturity.  ODR's consultants use systematic diagnostic and analytic methodologies combined with their own experience and that of the organization's internal subject matter expertise.  We provide performance focused analysis, survey design and implementation, functional and capability profiling, risk management profiling, formulation of policy, communication strategies, synopsis and recommendations. Our team can then facilitate the implementation of tailored solutions to assist the organization in improving performance. 

Business Review

ODR conducts objective and systematic organizational and performance reviews, preparing the organization for improvement options through thorough analysis of current state functioning. We look beyond currently applied solutions to incorporate potential innovations.  Our customers appreciate our honest and constructive solution focused recommendations. 

ODR consultants have conducted reviews of performance by evaluating:  Current capability to quickly respond to new customer requirements and environmental risks or threats Organizational culture, values and competencies and the impact on success Financial, human, risk management and technological resources and frameworks

Business Planning

From strategic, through operational to business unit plans, ODR’s planning processes capture the dynamic system elements of each unique organizational environment that contribute to performance.  We facilitate the mapping and development of a meaningful; realistic; valid plan of action. We can also review your plan against our proven processes to ensure its validity and fit for purpose. From there we can work with you to identify key development opportunities and build a structured approach to achieving direct outcomes. This may include; development of a culture including leadership and innovation to developing learning teams linked to realistic performance targets that relate to organizational business goals.

We utilize structured and pragmatic methodologies appropriate to organizational maturity to uncover strategic options hidden among the tangible and intangible assets in the organizations we serve.  Our approach matches people and process development directly to business performance requirements.    Our planning processes;

• Include scenario and risk management planning
• Identify Key Result Areas and Key Performance Indicators
• Establish clear, realistic, valid, integrated and aligned objectives
• Select optimal tactical mechanisms through which objectives are to be measured and met
• Identify realistic responsibility allocations and reporting requirements
• Establish effective performance management and reporting
• Links the plan to organizational capability and capacity

Survey design, delivery and analysis

Often cost effective and providing a rich source of data; surveys can be an integral part of the diagnostics phase of planning or organizational improvement projects. We help our clients to design and implement fact-finding processes that empower them to use the data for identifying key disconnects and assure organizational strategy, change and improvement is achieved.  In addition, our organization development consultants have extensive experience in designing organizational research methods such as action research that empower staff to contribute their experience and expertise to assure relevance to their roles.  These strategies act to assure that those who must then understand and use the results of the analysis and interpretation, learn in the process.  Surveys we provide include; 

• Culture / Climate
• Customer Satisfaction
• Employee Morale / Opinion
• Organization Development
• Organizational Performance Blocks
• Training Needs Analysis
• Managing Performance
• 360 feedback programs
• Leadership
• Action Research