Respondents whose organisations decide well and quickly were approximately twice as likely to report financial returns of 20% or more on their most recent major decision.
McKinsey research, 1,200+ respondents. Self-reported finding. ↗
SAGE Advisory · Stratants
Make sense of complexity before deciding what to change.
Strategic Systems Advisory for organisations navigating growth, change and increasing complexity.
We help business leaders understand the systems, relationships and underlying dynamics shaping organisational outcomes — bringing clarity before consequential change.
People are working. Teams are busy. Initiatives are in motion. Yet challenges persist — because the real connections between things are not clearly understood.
Are you addressing the causes of your organisational challenges, or only their visible symptoms?
The cost of complexity is not always
immediately visible. But it is real.
Independent research offers some perspective on the consequences of slow decision-making, poor organisational health and unsuccessful transformation.
Organisations that score highly on organisational health deliver around three times the total shareholder return of less healthy peers over the long term.
In a survey of 1,793 executives, only around one in six reported that their organisation's digital transformation improved performance and sustained the improvement.
Growth begets complexity; complexity is the silent killer of growth.
Third-party research, cited for context. These findings are not endorsements of Stratants.
SAGE Advisory
Before deciding what to change,
understand how the organisation works.
SAGE Advisory helps leaders look beyond isolated problems to understand the relationships, patterns and tensions shaping their organisation.
Through four connected stages, SAGE helps establish a shared understanding of the current reality, articulate what needs attention, guide strategic choices and embed change through practical learning.
Surface
Understand the organisational reality.
Articulate
Make sense of the connections and tensions.
Guide
Identify strategic choices and leverage points.
Embed
Support implementation through learning and refinement.
The same organisation, now with a shared understanding.
When the connections between people, processes, decisions, information and technology are understood, teams can work with greater clarity and move forward together.
This illustration represents the direction SAGE helps organisations work towards — not a guaranteed outcome of a single diagnostic engagement.
Start a conversation
Perhaps there is a different way
to understand what is happening.
Let's have a brief conversation. We can come to your place, understand the challenges you are experiencing and explore whether there is a meaningful scope for SAGE Advisory.
No obligation. No predefined solution. Just an opportunity to understand whether we can help.
Let's have a conversation.