Why Valion
​​​​​​​We know how busy you are and the pressure you're under. The number of strategy frameworks out there is overwhelming. Many are overly simplistic, needlessly complex, or too generic and it's hard to know which, if any, apply to your situation. Many leave gulfs between reality, theory and execution.
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Good strategy techniques are lost in a sea of online content and you don't have time for MBAs or business school. Consultants are expensive and besides, in a turbulent world you need all of your current and aspiring leaders to think like strategists rather than hire them by the hour.
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Strategy has military roots. It is an arena where large numbers of people apply a theory for winning and strive in unison against a continually evolving, high-stakes situation. ​We have operated in this way at the highest level, and we know how to apply our expertise to business. There are many military strategy and leadership concepts, already high-pressure tested, transferrable, and of high value to other domains. We fused these concepts with proven business strategy methods to create the Adaptive Approach Sequence (A2S)™.
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We partner with you using the tried and tested special operations 'Train-Advise-Assist' model to help you through your current situation, whilst increasing your own capability so that you keep winning long after we have gone.
Cross-domain fusion
We have years of experience on the frontline in industry. We understand your challenges because we've experienced them too. We've led teams and worked with leaders of businesses turning over hundreds of millions of dollars to help them win in their markets. We have experience across financial services, defence and national security industries, ranging from start-ups to international companies.
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We combine this expertise with our extensive experience in Special Forces, operating at the extremes of military endeavour, where intelligence, precision and capability combine to deliver asymmetric results. We have deconstructed the principles of how, and why our methods work, and fused them with proven business strategy concepts to create the Adaptive Approach Sequence (A2S)™.
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This cross-domain fusion leverages the methods from both worlds to help you create customer value, make decisive calls and anticipate disruption at pace. A2S creates momentum and systematises feedback, enabling your organisation to adapt as the situation changes, to update your strategic perspective and shift focus accordingly, in real time.
Scalable methodology
The Adaptive Approach Sequence (A2S) can be used for organisations of any size and structure. For larger organisations the A2S is used at the enterprise and business unit levels. A2S links business unit ambition with that of the enterprise group. This approach creates strategic alignment without overreaching whilst promoting transparency.
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Training your team in the A2S and its complementary approaches to leadership and culture maximises its impact. This enables you to channel a broader scope of thinking styles and experience into creating strategy without it becoming unwieldy. This gains the buy-in and alignment of your team whilst providing context, building a shared, comprehensive understanding of the situation and the key deductions reached at the outset. This also enables leaders at the edge to feed back when they observe the situation is changing on the ground, which is important because they are usually the first to see it.
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The A2S has an established taxonomy and distinct outputs that reduce ambiguity. This means everyone is speaking the same language and that it is clear what needs to be achieved and by whom.
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A blended approach for lasting impact
We partner with you using the tried and tested 'Train-Advise-Assist' model, to train you in the A2S™ and it's supporting culture and leadership approaches, whilst helping you through your current situation. We customise the A2S™ to your environment so that you keep winning long after we have gone, equipped to move faster with greater precision by yourselves, across the organisation.
​With practice, application of the A2S becomes intuitive and non-linear; critical thinking, alignment, and adaptation become institutionalised. It is this combination of factors that enables elite special operations units to continually evolve, and to execute with precision and pace.
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We provide materials and content to support you on your journey for long after your initial engagement with us has ended so that your strategy, leadership and execution game is raised, permanently. We come to you at the point of need and tailor our delivery to your schedule so that we don't take your people out of the field, and continue to provide close support until you decide you don't need us any more.