Our Approach
We enable our clients to develop and roll out groundbreaking strategies that are generated and implemented from within.
WE USE OUR NETWORK OF CLIENTS TO SOLVE OUR CLIENTS' BUSINESS CHALLENGES.
The process is focused on developing unique solutions with the client teams in a way where we act as strategic and operational coaches rather than as classic consultants. This co-creation starts within the company but also involves the various stakeholders, starting with future customers.
- While each client's needs are different, our engagement model typically starts with a discussion of the client's priorities and objectives, agree on operating principles and get a mandate to work with the company.
- We establish where our client's challenges have been addressed and solved before (with a client outside their own industry sector) and bring the two clients together to share their experience around a focussed agenda. This can take the form of a few hours' workshop or can take place over the course of a number of days. The whole process is arranged, managed and facilitated by OBA. Bringing clients together across industries in this way is what drives innovative solutions to the problems.
- We use our client network to act as a catalyst in the thinking process - this is the unique value of our business model.
- We set up carefully selected client teams, usually of high potential junior managers with a strong ability to think outside the box.
- We set up a structure where these teams are able to work outside the company's dominant logic.
- We coach these teams to help them generate truly breakthrough and high impact strategies.
- We help our clients drive these strategies to implementation and make sure that the transition from thinking to doing is a smooth one.
We approach our work with the humility of knowing that many organisations have decades of expertise and insight, our aim is to build on this.
