Root’s Proven Strategic Change Process

Root’s proven eight-step Strategic Change Process® is designed to guide clients through large-scale change. Root’s unique combination and blended approach of insights, creative engagement methods, and consulting capabilities are used throughout this process to enable and accelerate successful execution.

The process fuels Root’s strategy execution framework to help leaders get clear and aligned on their strategy, launch and implement that strategy to the larger organization, and enable ongoing refinement of the strategy over time, while driving sustained, profitable growth.

The Strategic Change Process steps can be broken into three core focus areas:

Clarify and Align

1.  Develop a shared view of the current state of the business
2.  Build a shared vision of the future and gain clarity around strategic direction
3.  Assure alignment and strong conviction in the plan and strategy
4.  Identify and change the behaviors preventing the business from moving forward

Launch and Deploy

5.  Enroll the next level of leaders as advocates or strategy ambassadors
6.  Create global individual ownership of the strategy

Refine and Sustain

7.  Translate strategic intent into operational changes in process, practices, and metrics
8.  Identify and develop individual skill-building curriculum’s to support competitive advantage and strategic direction

Delivering Outcomes

Root’s Strategic Change Process is supported by solutions that enables your organization to drive key strategic outcomes including:

• Enabling every person in your company to have a system-wide view of the business, the strategy, and the objectives, as well as their role in that system.
• Eliminating silos across functions and levels.
• Helping your organization create alignment, accountability, ownership, and advocacy at all levels of the business.
• Arming your people with the tools to track, drive, and adjust strategy execution to create operational excellence as a sustainable process, not just a “one-and-done” deployment.