Your Strategy Must Not Fail

Frameworks and tools to succeed based on research since 2000.

Some of our clients

Reduce Risk of Failure

Too many organizations habitually repeat past mistakes. We provide the best practices and structure to set your organization up for success.

Gain C-Suite & Board Support

One of the top reasons, for over 20 years, implementation fails is “poor communication”. We develop your internal branding, strategy on a page image and approach to nurture the communication.

Translate Strategy into Right Actions

Implementation fails if employees do not take new actions. Strategy by definition means changing the way employees work and we support you in identifying the right actions.

Your Strategy & Digital Implementation Specialist

Robin Speculand and Bridges support organizations by guiding them to avoid the common pitfalls and provide the often missing framework, tools, and techniques to support the organization and through its implementation journey.

Leaders have been taught how to plan but not how to implement, and this is a key contributor to why two-thirds of strategy implementations fail. Leaders need to acquire the implementation capability as well as the discipline to guide their organization through the whole implementation journey.

Customers notice your implementation not your strategy.

  

Customer Value

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Guide you through your implementation journey by providing the essential frameworks to guide you through digital transformation and strategy implementation.

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You will identify the right actions for your organization by assessing your implementation capabilities Assess your strategy and digital implementation capabilities to accelerate your transformation by identifying the right actions for your organization.

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Identify your organization requirements to ensure leaders and employees are taking the right actions by providing them the required resource, mechanisms and encouragement.

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Provide you the tools, tips and techniques to overcome the most common implementation challenges, such as poor communication, misalignment and lack of measures.

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Support both leaders and employees to sustain the implementation and maintain momentum and passion.

Bridges is known for three main areas:

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Business Consultancy in strategy and digital implementation

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Business Facilitation – keynotes, workshops and assessments

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Strategy implementation thought leader

Best-selling Books

Bridges Strategy & Digital
Implementation Support

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Business Consultancy

Accelerating your implementation towards success.

We support and guide you by providing the guidance and framework, tools, and techniques as you implement your strategy. You can outsource your strategy creation but not its implementation.

At heart we are passionate about implementation.

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Business Facilitation

Providing high-impact, short-term resources to support your organization.

By providing the implementation skills and knowledge that it is often missing within organizations we support you on your journey.

These include keynotes, workshops, Harvard published case studies and assessments.

Business Consultancy –
Strategy and Digital Implementation

Supporting you to implement your strategy is our business.

Strategy implementation requires discipline. The discipline for leaders to stay engaged throughout the whole journey. The discipline to take the right actions and the discipline to continuously communicate and review progress.

We work with you like a trainer in the gym. A trainer will show you the right actions to take and correct you when you make mistakes but cannot lift the weights for you. We will identify how to support your implementation, but we cannot do it for you as you must own your own implementation by taking the right actions. Leaders need to acquire the implementation capability as well as the discipline to guide their organization through the implementation journey.

The time to engage us is as you are confirming your new strategy. After crafting your strategy, the challenge is to communicate and engage employees in the implementation. A new strategy means a new way of working, and yet our research since 2000 reveals that 95% of employees cannot tell you their own organization’s strategy! How can employees take the right action if they don’t even know what their organization’s strategy is?

“Strategy is about making the right choices.
Implementation is about taking the right actions.”

Our role is to partner with and guide you through your implementation journey. We help you avoid the most common mistakes, highlight potential dangers and at the same time provide you with the tools, techniques, and frameworks that are so often missing in implementation as well as other resources.

We support you through three stages of your implementation:

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Create Awareness

Employees need to understand and be engaged to implement the strategy.

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Build Excellence

A new strategy means working differently and leaders need to drive the business model transformation to support the implementation.

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Follow Through

Leaders and employees need to be held accountable for taking the right actions and regular implementation reviews need to be in place.

Testimonials

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“Fully knowledgeable about digital transformation: Very well-equipped and truly interactive.”

Senior banking leader, Dubai
“Robin Speculand is a gamechanger and an inspirational leader. This program should be conducted in every bank. It is excellent.”
Senior banking leader, Dubai
“Bridges was engaged to support us in crafting our vision mission and values and the strategy and most importantly developing a roadmap to implement it. We are excited to say it’s been a wonderful experience.  Robin has a wealth of knowledge and engages at all levels of staff in an exciting way. We will continue to engage Bridges.”
Ben Robinson, CEO, RQAM

“Bridges showed great agility and flexibility in working with our senior leaders as well as rolling the strategy out with our middle managers across Asia.”

Bert van der Feltz, CEO

“The facilitator is excellent. The course is interactive and engaging. Robin was amazing as a trainer…full of actual real life sharing throughout the whole course. I was not a minute sleepy…full‐on engaged through the whole duration of the training. Great practical trips that are being applied to a real case study.”

Manager in Singapore

“This course allows me to start thinking about digital, learnt I learned a lot of tips which I can apply in my workplace. It was very insightful & informative. What was usually “unspoken & thru gut feeling” was established out in words, for better understanding and self-reflection.”

Manager in Singapore

“Robin’s facilitation style is very adaptive, relates to international audiences and very client centric. It creates a great experience.”

Nikhil Raval, Leader in India

“I’ve never seen anyone cover strategy implementation so well in my life. This course was a changing experience for me.

Syed, Deputy CEO, PharmEvo

“Robin is a good trainer who can share a lot of industry experience with me. I would like to attend more of his courses.”

Manager in Singapore

“Robin always brings the energy levels up in delivering the outcomes that we want not only in the plan but also in the execution.”

Siva Ramadas, Managing Director

“The Implementation Compass was very simple in being able to apply into our day-to-day business. A great experience.”

Dr David Low, Chief Executive Officer

“Great instructor with great content.”

Manager in Singapore

“Robin is an extremely good storyteller who weaves this technique into his presentation which makes the learning so much easier and fresh.”

Frans Van Heerden

You can outsource your strategy but not the implementation

We support you in creating employee engagement, crafting your strategy message through visuals, changing your measures, embedding your review cadence, and other initiatives to drive your implementation success.

Proprietary Frameworks

Implementation Compass
The Implementation Compass™

Our strategy implementation framework

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The Ticking Clock Model©

Transform from traditional to digitally driven organization

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Strategy Implementation Canvas©

Our model for identifying the right actions

Business
Facilitation

As an external facilitator we work with you to identify the outcomes for your event and then work backwards to design an engaging and impactful delivery.

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Workshops

We support you in avoiding the most common pitfalls by providing you the often-missing implementation structure and frameworks as well as use cases and best practices.

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Keynotes

Our keynotes are engaging, stimulating and entertaining as we believe people learn best when they’re enjoying themselves.

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Assessments

How prepared are you and your organization for your implementation journey? Our organizational and individual assessments provide the opportunity to find out.

Business Facilitation Through Customized Events Keynotes, Workshops, and Assessments

We passionately believe that people learn best when they are engaged, stimulated, and entertained, which are the three themes at the core of our design approach.

We work with you to ensure your meetings and conferences achieve their goals by identifying the desired outcomes and then working backwards to design interventions that have memorable impact.

Sample Workshops:

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Transformation in a Digital World

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World’s Best Bank

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Strategy Implementation for Leaders

Sample Keynotes:

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Transformation in a Digital World

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The Story and Lessons from a World-Class Digital Transformation

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Strategy Implementation Challenge

Sample Assessments:

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Digital Maturity Index (DMI)

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Digital Transformation Assessment (DTA)

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Digital Best Practices benchmark