Strategic planning
Your strategic plan, owned and moving. In minutes, not months.
Empiraa GPS turns a strategic plan into goals, objectives and actions, each with an owner. Upload the plan you already have, start from a template, or build it with ANI, the AI strategist in GPS.
- Set up with your plan
- Unlimited users
- 30-day pilot
Why plans stall
Most plans are finished at the offsite, then filed.
Only 55% of middle managers surveyed could name even one of their company’s top five priorities (Sull, Homkes and Sull, Harvard Business Review, 2015). The plan is rarely the problem. Where it lives is.
What gets in the way
Stuck in a document
The plan sits in a slide deck or a spreadsheet that few people open after the offsite.
No clear owners
When a priority belongs to a whole team, in practice it belongs to no one.
Hard to see
People can’t act on a strategy they can’t see on one page, with its progress beside it.
How it works
Three ways in. One plan everyone works from.
Planning in GPS
Start from the plan you have
Upload your existing strategy and GPS turns it into goals, objectives and actions. Prefer to start fresh? Set it up by hand, or begin from a template and adapt it.
- Upload a document
- Manual set-up
- Templates for sales growth, operations excellence, market expansion and talent development
Or build it with ANI
No plan yet, or one that needs work? Describe your business and your goals. ANI asks the questions a strategist would, then builds the plan when you are ready.
- A guided conversation, not a blank page
- Objectives with targets and due dates
- You decide when to build the plan
The whole strategy on one page
Your vision, core values, goals and objectives sit on the Strategy One Pager with live status. Export it to PDF for the offsite, the office wall or the board pack.
- Vision and core values
- Goals and objectives with live progress
- Filter by status, goal and due date
- Export to PDF
From the annual plan to this quarter
The plan also runs on the timeline, so the year turns into this quarter’s work. The one pager, timeline, next 90 days, vision and culture, and the executive report sit together in myPlan.
What you get
Everything a plan needs to leave the offsite.
Planning features
Goals, objectives and actions
Break every goal into measurable objectives, and every objective into the actions that deliver it.
An owner for each
Every goal has one accountable person, and every objective and action has an owner.
Any planning method
KPIs, OKRs, quarterly Rocks, a balanced scorecard or your own approach.
Strategy templates
Start from a template with goals and objectives already drafted, then make it yours.
Private goals
Keep sensitive goals and objectives visible only to the people who need them.
Your branding
Add your logo, colours and font with the Branding Kit, so the plan looks like your business.
Getting started
From the plan you have to a plan people own.
The steps
Bring the plan
Upload it, pick a template or build it with ANI.
Set the measures
Give each objective a target, a start date and a due date.
Assign owners
One accountable person for each goal, and an owner for every objective and action.
Share it
Everyone sees the one pager and the timeline, and updates their own progress.
Our team sets it up with you.
Implementation is included in every plan. We load your strategy into GPS with you, so your leaders start with a working plan, not a blank screen.
Who it’s for
One plan, read by every leader.
By role
CEO or MD
Turn the strategy in your head into a plan the whole business can see and act on.
COO or GM
Break the plan into owned objectives and actions your teams can run every week.
Owners and boards
See the plan on one page with live status, instead of a slide from last quarter.
Related
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Questions
Strategic planning questions, answered.
Can we bring our existing strategic plan into GPS?
Yes. Upload your strategy document and GPS turns it into goals, objectives and actions. Our team can also load it with you during implementation.
What if we don’t have a plan yet?
Build one with ANI. Describe your business and your goals, and ANI asks the questions a strategist would, then builds the plan for you to review. You can also start from a template.
Does GPS work with OKRs, KPIs or quarterly Rocks?
Yes. GPS tracks KPIs, OKRs and quarterly Rocks, and works with balanced scorecards or your own planning method. See GPS by planning method.
How long does it take to get our plan into GPS?
Minutes. Most of the time goes into agreeing owners and targets, which our team helps with during implementation.
Can we export the plan?
Yes. Export the Strategy One Pager to PDF for an offsite, a board pack or the office wall.
Who can see the plan?
The people you invite, with access set by role. Sensitive goals and objectives can be kept private. See how GPS protects your data.
Question not answered here? Ask ANI and get a straight answer.
See your plan running in GPS.
Book a 15-minute demo and bring the plan you have. No preparation needed.