Our Mission
Stratevolve’s mission is to work inclusively with our clients to deliver strategy solutions that are informed by management research, result in actionable change, and reflect an outstanding return on investment.
In early 2001, we reflected on the three major issues concerning strategy consultancy: lack of in-depth understanding of relevant strategy frameworks and concepts by consultants, poor ownership of strategy advice among top management, and strategy recommendations that were disconnected from practice.
Stratevolve was founded to address these issues and offer a more effective approach to strategy engagements.
- Our projects draw on our leading strategy thinking and research and are therefore grounded in an in-depth understanding of strategy management and competitive strategy.
- Our approach is inclusive of client management and staff in order to understand organisational context, access sector expertise, and co-develop pragmatic solutions that have a high degree of ownership.
- Our concern is to identify and specify initiatives and actions to ensure that strategy outcomes link to action.
A brief introduction:
Professor Cliff Bowman
"Strategic management is a 'design science' like medicine or engineering. What this means is that whatever we research has to make a practical difference to the way people run their organisations. This is a two way street: as researchers we can bring ideas and insights to practicing managers, and our experience of working with executives helps to shape our research agenda. Setting up Stratevolve was a way to formalise this creative interaction between the domains of research and practice."
Dr Paul Raspin
“Stratevolve was formed based on insights gained from the strategy consulting sector and academia. It struck us that there was an opportunity to combine the best of these two worlds: to offer a strategy consulting service that drew on management research insights from academia, and to combine this with top tier strategy consulting analytical capabilities. Our initial and ongoing motivation is to bring informed ideas and insights to our clients, and to work inclusively to develop effective strategy that yields outstanding returns."