Corporate Strategy

Your people are your most valuable business asset. How will you discover, engage, and empower them in today’s workplace?

Today’s modern, post-transformational workplace demands a learning platform that is as dynamic as the people it serves. The rapid pace of change requires your organization to have an agile strategy that supports continued learning and development, aligning your business needs with the emerging skills needed in a future-forward organization. At Smith & Co., we are with you in your mission to engage the individual, empower the workforce and drive a high-performance culture.

Well-defined responsibilities and a sound decision-making framework are key to establishing a high-performance environment.

From changing workplace demographics to AI (artificial intelligence, powerful forces are distributing labour markets and require new organizational design and talent management. Leadership must be able to effectively attract, engae, empower and retain a mulit-generational, global, diverse and mobile workforce to successfully drive better business outcomes.

Smith & Co. can help you address the talent drivers for designing a high-performance organization. Backed by sound people and workforce analytics, you can gain a deeper understanding for the talent and leadership requirements. As well as employee experience, engagement, culture, inclusion, and overall workforce planning needed to deliver your business goals. Smith & Co. works with your to create innovative, data driven, practical and sustainable approaches to buying, building, borrowing and saving talent at every level of an organization.

Understanding employee behaviour and motivation is key to establishing and building strong relationships and optimizing performance. In today’s world of rapid change and disruption, your organization must have intentional, forward-looking design and workforce management strategies that create agile, effective organizations. At Smith & Co. we can help you define your organizational structures and people processes to reflect the new dynamics of future work.

Change management is our specialty and what we are known for globally. As the pace of change quickens and market demands increase, organizations are under intense pressure to transform processes, systems and job functions quickly and smoothly. However, issues including inconsistent approaches, conflicting projects, mixed messages, unwillingness to change and internal politics can impede the success of change initiatives. Leadership must learn to effectively communicate with a muti-generational, global, diverse and mobile workforce.

At Smith & Co. we know that change management requires a holistic, data-driven, proactive and structured approach that addresses people risks. We can help you analyze your organization’s risk and readiness for large-scale change; design and execute a communication strategy, conduct job impact analyses, and design targeted workforce transition programs. We support the full life cycle of change process, ensuring effective and sustainable realization of business value. Prosci and ADAKAR’s world class methodologies are used when creating your specific strategy and plan of action.

Lean Six Sigma focuses on eliminating errors with processes and improving operational efficiencies. Doing things the way your company has always done them if not necessarily the more efficient or effective way to do things. The ultimate goal is to streamline procedures that have so much waste, to save your company time and money. At Smith & Co. we go in and do a gamba, a go see and find out exactly how your company runs and analyse gaps for improvement. Define, measure, analyse, and improve, this way you can control your customer satisfaction, reduce costs, grow revenue and productivity.

Roles or position in your organization that would benefit the most would be; Team Leader, Manager, Supervisor, Project Manager, business Analyst and Quality Assurance Manager to name a few.

Our approach helps businesses keep pace with digital disruption, delivering speed, innovation, and competitive advantage. An effective procurement organization can help your business better prepare for the future. We address a full range of underpinnings that enable procurement to strategically support the enterprise’s growth and competitive objectives. Whether leveraging the right technology for speed and effectiveness or getting spend management under control, there are many aspects of procurement that are critical to optimize corporate gains.

Targeted improvements or full-scale transformation, Smith & Co.’s procurement consultants can help you drive meaningful benefits across your enterprise.