Strategy and change

To achieve their ambitious growth goals, companies must innovate. We think of innovation as delivering new advantage to the market — typically with novel business strategies, unique business and operating models, and new products and services.

As a trusted business and strategy advisor, we help clients envision and plan transformation, enhance competitiveness and create new sources of economic value by tapping into IBM’s business innovation, research and technology leadership to create leading-edge business and technology strategies; developing industry-specific points of view that help drive clients’ strategies; creating implementable strategies tied to solutions that can be quickly delivered to clients; and leveraging IBM’s global reach, financing options and first-hand transformation experience.

Business challenges

• Do you manage change as a structured program and measure change management effectiveness?
• Do you have robust processes in place to incubate new product, service and business model concepts?
• When customer preferences shift, are you the first to understand and act on this, or do your competitors react more quickly?
• Are you integrating disparate data and systems to gain new customer insights?
• Are you systematically evaluating potential geographic markets?
• Are you developing leaders that think and act globally?
• Does your organization have a globally integrated business design (even if it does not have a global footprint)?
• Are you watching other industries for concepts and business models that could transform your market?
• Have you gained insight from current green initiatives that can be applied to your broader corporate social responsibility strategy?

"Outperforming enterprises of the future will be 'disruptive by nature', meaning they will employ business model innovation to challenge the way their businesses have traditionally been done to create new opportunity." Saul Berman Strategy and Change Services, Global and Americas Leader

Why IBM

With nearly 3,500 strategy professionals worldwide, IBM Strategy and Change (S&C) is part of IBM Global Business Services, one of the world's leading management consulting practices. Our S&C practice fuses business strategy with technology insight to help organizations develop, align, and implement their business vision across four strategic dimensions: business strategy, operating strategy, organization change strategy and technology strategy, to drive innovation and growth. Working across all major sectors, IBM has inherent expertise across more than a dozen industries, including communications, distribution, financial services, and the industrial and public sectors. Our consultants have demonstrated experience creating value for clients and serving as trusted business advisors.