Strategic Planning
Strategy and Integrated Business Planning
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter
Turn your vision into real-world results, with a strategy that connects ambition to action.
A great strategy doesn’t just sit on paper. It shapes decisions, guides investments, and rallies your people around what matters most.
But too often, strategy is high-level, disconnected, or difficult to execute. That’s where we come in. At Keogh, we partner with organisations to create strategies that live and breathe inside the business, supported by integrated business planning that connects long-term goals to day-to-day actions.
Let’s talk. We are ready to help you shape and execute your strategy.
Strategic planning is a vital tool to guides an organisation’s decision making
It describes how you will adapt and respond to the demands of the environment, and deliver value for your clients and other key stakeholders. Strategy puts in place the framework by which to marshal and manage your resources to achieve your vision. Done well, strategic planning helps attract top talent, sustain a competitive advantage and ensure financial sustainability.
Strategic Direction
We partner with you to understand the strategic challenges you face and shape your Purpose, Vision and Strategic Goals in response.
Strategy on a Page
We help you define where you will focus and how you’ll win, the multi-year objectives to achieve your strategic priorities, and how you will measure your progress and success. Together with your Purpose, Vision and Strategic Goals, this is captured in a “Strategy on a Page”.
Integrated Business Planning
As strategic planning consultants, Keogh work with you to effectively communicate, cascade and implement strategy through the entire organisation.
Keogh understood our objectives and created a great environment for us to share and align as a team. My favourite bit was hearing how consistent everyone was in their thinking around vision – and getting to know a bit more about each person!
– Julie Keene | CEO, Integra
Our Approach
We use our proven Keogh Way methodology to help organisations move their strategic planning process from ideas to action.
1. Discover
Where are you now?
We start by understanding the external forces and internal drivers shaping your world. Through workshops, interviews, and environmental scans, we help crystallise the complex problems and opportunities you face and the foundations you can build on.
Outcome: A shared, clear understanding of your strategic context and what it means for your organisation.
2. Imagine
Where do you want to be?
Together we leverage these insights to co-create a compelling and actionable purpose and vision. We collate a set of organisational values that connects with and inspires your people.
Outcome: An agreed future state, defined through purpose, vision and values.
3. Design
What does the change look like?
This includes shaping the strategic framework and narrative, by translating your vision into strategic goals, multi-year strategic objectives with clear initiatives, actions and key measures of success.
Outcome: “Strategy on a Page”.
4. Commit
Are you committed to the change?
Strategy lives or dies by leadership alignment. We work with executive and senior teams to build clarity and ownership of the strategy, aligning on what it means, what it demands, and how they’ll champion it. We also engage broader leaders to ensure consistent messaging and activation across the business.
Outcome: Visible leadership commitment and shared ownership of strategy implementation.
5. Plan
How do you plan on making the change happen?
We help translate organisational strategy and planning into integrated business planning (IBP), connecting organisational priorities to business unit actions. This includes developing strategic scorecards, quarterly planning cadences, and performance monitoring frameworks.
Outcome: A living business plan that guides decision-making, investment, and progress tracking.
6. Implement
How will you mobilise and deliver the change?
We support the rollout of strategy by embedding practical enablers like communications and engagement, leadership and team coaching, decision-making and prioritisation frameworks, and strategy governance mechanisms.
Outcome: Strategy becomes a working tool, not just a document. People know what it means for them.
7. Review
How do you measure and monitor progress?
Strategy is not static. We design review mechanisms and feedback loops that enable you to sense, learn, and adapt in real time, so your strategy stays relevant. Using key performance indicators and other tools to track performance and outcomes, we can map effective strategy execution and adapt for long term success.
Outcome: A responsive, agile strategy supported by data, learning, and leadership reflection.
What Makes Keogh Different?
At Keogh, strategy isn’t a one-off project or an action plan that seeks to solve one pressing issue. It’s a living system that aligns your organisation around what matters most.
We’re the strategic planning experts, known for:
Deep partnership: We work side-by-side with your leaders in the strategic planning process, not at arm’s length.
Human-centred strategy design: We place people at the heart of your strategic intent.
Integrated thinking: We connect strategy with culture, people and operations to ensure buy in and collaboration across the organisation.
Clarity and simplicity: We make strategy development tangible, from the boardroom to the frontline. We foster clear communication and keep everyone on the same page.
Who we’ve worked with
Strategy to get you where you want to go
Whether you need to reposition yourself in the market, respond to disruption, or get the board and executive team on the same page, Keogh’s strategic planning consultants have the skills and real world experience to get you where you want to go.
What we are up to
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What makes a winning strategy?
Let’s talk about it.
If your current strategy is not going to get your business to where it needs to be, we need to talk.
Speak directly with:
Mel Russell-Lane
Senior Consultant
mel@keoghconsulting.com.au
Book a free 30 minute consultation