The MKA Partners Culture

Strategic Approach to Leadership

MKA Partners works closely with leaders to facilitate the development and implementation of strategies designed specifically to achieve the goals set by your organization. Strategy is about the action of allocating resources and getting things happening, and MKA is very action focused. MKA beleives thet where management places its energy and focus is where things get done. So it is important that your strategic planning leads management in the direction of your vision for the organization. Your 'vision' describes how your business will look in the short, medium and long term and must be described in qualitative and quantitative terms - i.e. it must be measurable. Management needs measures to understand where your organization is located on its journey to its intended future.

MKA Partners are realists and understand that not everything happens as intended. Opportunities arise, difficulties have to be overcome and all the while the business has to keep operating. And strategy needs to continually evolve in order to meet changing environments.  MKA describes this area of strategy development as emergent  strategy and it plays a key part in changing the planned allocation of resources to achieve the vision in previously unchartered waters. Strategic support is the key to implementing strategy and also answers the question: how frequently should strategy be reviewed.

Leadership emphasizes direction whereas management emphasizes how things get done, in particular, how things will be done efficiently and effectively. MKA Partners provide proven tools for leaders to develop their vision and the strategies required to fulfill that vision. The vision becomes reality through strategic implementation. Providing the know-how to implement strategy is what sets MKA Partners apart from every other consulting and facilitation organization. Implementation of strategy is the keystone overarching MKA Partners.  This is what we are best at. This is why we can provide a cash back guarantee for all of our services.

The MKA Diagnostic tools enable our consultants to commence work very quickly, and in those areas most needing attention. MKA Partners are NOT consultants with solutions running around looking to find problems. On the contrary MKA Partners diagnose your strategic issues, then build a program suited to the complexity of your issues and the size of your business. So business size is never an issue, nor is complexity. MKA business tools reduce complexity to the essence of the issues and in doing so make them manageable.

MKA Partners are strategic thinkers. They are people who have managed their own businesses. They know the feeling and possess the understanding of what it means to be the man with his hand on the tiller. You can rely on these people. They have done it before.