Strategy & Management Solutions tailored and implemented to specific needs.
Leaders of an organization are right up alongside tight-rope walkers and circus acrobats amongst the balancing act elite. Albeit in an entirely different format, the art of maintaining comprehensive monitoring of key variables, ensuring availability of resources, realizing uniform alignment across stakeholders, executing comprehensive yet tactful communication, and keeping sight of that long-term objective makes organizational leadership a meticulous, indispensable balancing act crucial to the success of any given institution. The challenges in management are evident if you consider only 12% of transformation projects lead to lasting impact (HBR, 2024).
Considering the above, we firmly believe in our custom-made approach for every single one of our partners. Successful strategy and management understands it's organization, the people that make it up, and crafts custom and reasonably flexible strategies to navigate through each institution's unique dynamic landscape while remaining open to tweaking it when needed.
Maisha Mazuri believes in supporting strategic and management initiatives from start to finish, from inception to various iterations in the implementation process. It is imperative leaders understand the practical impact of their decisions in order to increase the likelihood of success in transformation projects. Our extensive experience in Operations, People & Organization, and Strategy guides our empathic and nuanced approach in this.
PROJECT EXAMPLE: BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION.
Context:
Maisha Mazuri led transformation efforts for an organization with faltering revenues, an unsustainable cost base, an unclear vision and strategy, paired with a weak communications- and evaluation- framework.
Approach:
It swiftly became clear the largest challenge was the organization of the set-up; all the ingredients were there but these couldn’t fuse together to realize their potential.
It was imperative to find a set-up that allowed the entire business to understand what they were doing and why.
We critically reviewed and adjusted the planning and decision-making process throughout all levels of the organization, overhauled the communications processes, and reorganized the business to improve autonomous decision-making when possible, common understanding, proactivity, and accountability within the organization.
We worked closely with the in-house team throughout so the transfer of knowledge at the later stages of the project was efficient and sustainable.
Result:
Within 7 months, costs had been reduced by >33%, revenues returned to a stable and healthy state, and staff satisfaction was rising steadily.
After the project, the in-house team was comfortable managing the new set-up independently and rarely needed further support.