Strategic Advisory
What is strategic advisory?
Strategic advisory is a service tailored to the unique needs of each client to help them unlock the full potential of their organization. We use this bespoke approach to address a variety of specific challenges that may impact your organization, within a timeframe suited to each situation.
Espace Stratégies’s team of advisors have diverse backgrounds, expertise, and experiences, encompassing economic development, sustainable development, urban planning, growth strategies and governance. We leverage our team’s strengths to provide a nuanced, independent and relevant external perspective for each organization to help them progress.
WHAT IS THE TIMELINE FOR STRATEGIC ADVISORY SERVICES?
Espace Stratégies offers support tailored to your specific situation, taking into consideration your deadlines and availability. These services can take the form of occasional or monthly assistance, or they can be more intensive for a short period, such as for project design or development.
WHEN IS STRATEGIC ADVISORY APPROPRIATE?
Strategic advisory is ideal for the following:
- Leadership guidance in operational management
- Updating a strategic plan or an action plan
- Implementing a strategic plan
- Occasional support for a value-added project
- Addressing specific challenges
- Preparing for meetings with the board of directors, a council of mayors or elected officials, the management committee, the leadership team or shareholders
- Developing documents for presentations to potential public and private investors
- Preparing a Business Model Review
How can Espace Stratégies assist you?
Espace Stratégies is an independent firm that provides an outside perspective and fresh insights into your organization’s challenges. As an outside partner, we can advance original ideas and question certain challenging status quos. We work with public and municipal organizations, as well as businesses, non-profits, investors and institutional environments. We use our understanding of the various stakeholders in these sectors and their needs to establish relevant connections and synergies.
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For Whom?
Portfolio
ABZAC
ABZAC, an international leader in the cardboard transformation sector, called on Espace Stratégies during a period of significant growth to enhance customer service performance and efficiency. The objective was to establish and maintain synergy between production sites and the company’s business sectors (change management).
Care Montréal and Cap Saint-Barnabé
In 2022, Care Montréal and Cap Saint-Barnabé, two organizations dedicated to assisting individuals experiencing homelessness, decided to merge their services. Espace Stratégies provided strategic advisory to ensure the consolidation process was efficient. ES helped Cap and Care to identify the best business model to preserve the value proposition of both organizations. This included determining the future organization’s strategic positioning and development vision and implementing the changes necessary for a seamless and effective transition.
Conseil supérieur de l'éducation
Following an extensive consultation phase conducted by the Institut du Nouveau Monde, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Éducation enlisted Espace Stratégies to draft and update its strategic planning. This encompassed key aspects including vision, internal and external context, challenges, strategic directions and targeted outcomes. The collaboration provided a fresh perspective on the organization, which refined and updated its priorities as a result.
