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hidden levers of strategy and business execution

What We Do

FORMATION is a team of consulting professionals with global experience in operations improvement, project management, management consulting, technology implementation, end-to-end supply chain, cybersecurity, and rapid business transformation.

We have streamlined and advanced companies in aviation, manufacturing, logistics and distribution, food delivery, and the financial and public sectors; we have also led clients through profitable, growth-focused, and sustainable changes to their internal operations, processes and standard operating procedures, and customer service departments.
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The success of our solution starts with an active and hands-on approach; this allows our team to understand, stabilize, standardize, and realize the potential of your organization.
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Our multi-faceted and agile team can guide your visionaries in strategy formulation, build new scalable capabilities in your company, lead the implementation of corporate-wide software systems, upgrade your internal operations in high-impact areas, or parachute in to meet your urgent needs.

Finally, if you’re struggling to prioritize or address a proliferation of challenges in these turbulent times, management professor Richard Rumelt explains how a coherent strategy, rather than an ambitious wish list, improves your chances of success.

Formation will fill the gap within your business to make an immediate and lasting impact. Our methodology is unparalleled and effective: first we map out the benchmarks and current state of your business, then we provide analysis and direction to enhance the future state of your business, and finally we connect the dots by building your team a clear and strategic roadmap.

Whatever the need, Formation penetrates deep within your operations, unlocks hidden efficiencies, develops interdepartmental processes, and sets your company on the path for continuous improvement.

Our Dynamic Framework

The Strategic

Compass

COMPASS | INSIGHT 1

Have you ever wondered which framework to use when analyzing a scenario, developing a business strategy, determining how to gain a competitive advantage, or launching a new product?
The Strategic Compass is Formation’s internal and dynamic framework that uses an in-depth understanding of your business, along with the vision you hold for it, to determine your best and most strategic next steps. The Strategic Compass links the multitude of available strategy tools into an integrated meta-framework.

COMPASS  | INSIGHT 2

The four ordinates and four quadrants of a Strategic Compass help you, the practitioner, to define the current competitive landscape of your business, to uncover blind spots, and to provide a roadmap against which you can plot your position and movements.
The traditional north, east, south, and west ordinates are occupied by: Command & Control (North) – a high level Corporate Strategy zone, Conceive & Construct (East) – a New Market Strategy zone, Change & Checkmate (South) – the deductive Executing Strategy zone, and Compete & Conquer (West) – the zero sum Competitive Strategy zone. Each ordinate provides different frameworks and models that your business can employ when positioned in that zone.
Command & Control
Conceive & Construct
Change & Checkmate
Compete & Conquer

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Traditional strategies are photos trapped in time, but real competition is fluid. The Comparative Dynamics Analysis Canvas (CDAC) takes the insights gained from the Strategic Compass and maps out the past, current, and probable future developments of the battlefield. This type of foresight analysis will reveal unseen patterns, highlight opportunities to exploit, and keep you ahead of your opponents.
CDAC also considers the time dimension: recent events that have transpired, current business factors, and future forecasts. It organizes the thoughts of your team to create alignment, and it inspires an open conversation about the dynamic business landscape.
Formation uses this proprietary analytical canvas (with the strategy formulated from the Strategic Compass) to deliver an adaptable and predictive plan.
Hear from Formation Consulting's Managing Director on utilizing the Comparative Dynamics Analysis:

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Traditional strategies are photos trapped in time. To base a real life fluid competition, where competitors seek to outmaneuver you, on a single strategic snapshot is folly.

The Comparative Dynamics Analysis lets you take the insights gained from the Strategic Compass and map out the past, current, and probable future developments of the battlefield. A type of foresight analysis, this analysis will uncover blind spots, organize opportunities, and gives you an opportunity to stay a step ahead of your opponents."

Tim Yan, November 2018

Comparative

Dynamics

DYNAMICS | INSIGHT

COMPARATIVE DYNAMICS ANALYSIS
The four quadrants facilitate an interplay between the key tools (each business framework is adjacent to two quadrants) so that you can develop creative insights and overtake your competitors on the dynamic business landscape. Each quadrant sits in between the ordinates, which are Static (the ideal and vulnerable state), Dynamic (the fluid state), Broad (CEO vantage point), and Focused (frontline vantage point).
Formation uses this proprietary meta-framework to facilitate and deliver actionable results for our clients, and to create a strategic plan that can be mapped over time.

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Hear from Formation Consulting's valued customers:

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FORMATION HAS PROVEN TO SUCCEED OUR TURNAROUND … IN A POISED AND STRUCTURED MANNER. TIM INHERITED A DEPARTMENT LACKING LEADERSHIP, STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND CONFIDENCE. THE CHALLENGE WAS NO EASY FEAT BASED ON 7 YEARS OF FAILURE FROM TWO LEADERSHIP CHANGES.”

“HE LED A FAILING BREAK-EVEN BUSINESS UNIT TO AN EBITDA IMPROVEMENT OF OVER 7%, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY DEVELOPED FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS GROOMED TO CONTINUE DRIVING GROWTH.”

Nav Thind, Vice President, BST Transportation Group

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TIM WOULD THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND BRING THE ROOM TOGETHER.”

“IF THERE WAS NO DATA, NEW IDEAS WERE CHOSEN, TIM HAD EVERY MOVE TRACKED, AND WOULD SHOW US WEEKLY RESULTS.  WE LEARNED AND GREW SO MUCH IN A SHORT PERIOD. WE DO KNOW THAT WE WILL REACHING OUT TO YOU FOR OUR NEXT BIG MOVES OR CHANGES.”
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“YOU ARE A BIG PART OF OUR GROWTH AT PRECISION, AND WE THANK YOU IMMENSELY.”

Precision Financial, November 2020

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“I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH TIM’S PROFESSIONALISM, QUALITY OF WORK AND HIS COMMITMENT TO THE PROJECT. TIM WAS EASY TO COMMUNICATE WITH AND HE AND THE TEAM PERFORMED WELL OVER THE 6+ MONTH ENGAGEMENT.”

Cameron Laker, CEO & Co-Founder, Mindfield

In conclusion

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Strategy needs to be more dynamic, it needs to be constantly evolving. It’s not something done, written, then put away for three or four years and then revisited. They need to be more agile and they need to be more innovative... the ability to be able to see into the future and position the organization’s financial models, business models and operating models."
Nicholas Griffin, Head of KPMG Global Strategy Group
Formation will help you to uncover the hidden levers of strategy and business execution so that you can progress your organization forward with impact, efficiency, and a major advantage over your competitors.

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Tim Yan
‍EMBA, CSCP, CCMP

Managing Director

Manoj Saha
MBA, P.Log, MEng

Senior Project Advisor

Sharif Fahmy
MBA, SCMP, IFPSM

Senior Business Advisor

Arun Joshy
MSCM, CPIM, BEng

Business Analyst

Ryan Hulbig
SDE

Software Engineer

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