Strategic Planning Services and Prometheus Process Description
"It may surprise you to learn that you witnessed the birth of a powerful business process —Prometheus —on global television. It was January 16, 1991, when the launch of the first hyper-war was broadcast live on CNN. Developed at warp-speed and designed for overwhelming victory, the Desert Storm air campaign lit up the skies of Baghdad and changed strategic thinking forever."
—John Warden —Winning in Fast Time

If you want success in today’s world, you need strategic thinking and execution throughout your organization —not just at the senior executive level. AdVantage Consulting can help you develop and execute a great strategy that should significantly increase your return on the people, ideas, and capital that are already part of your organization."

The Prometheus Strategic Planning Process

The Prometheus Process is a mindset and a methodology for rapid, decisive strategic action. Its essence is simple: think strategically focus sharply and move quickly. Prometheus has a powerful message. You can control your destiny —if you are willing to shed yesterday’s thinking about business strategy and make the future what you want it to be.

Transform your organization into a nimble, market-leading winner. Design and execute a Grand Strategy that everyone from the boardroom to the front line will share. Shape tomorrow before it shapes you!

The Prometheus Process allows you to create and execute a uniquely encompassing strategy —one that carries you from concept to end game. It helps you choose the right things —your internal and external centers of gravity —against which to put your energy. It shows you graphically why the normal serial approach to business has such a low probability of success, and it provides you with concepts and tools to move to parallel operations with their high probabilities of success and accompanying low risk. Finally, it shows you how to exit at the right time.

You won’t win by following the rules of yesterday. Use Prometheus to create your own rules —with a winning strategy and an integrated plan that will take you from concept to execution to completion.

At AdVantage Consulting, we believe that the creation of the Strategic Plan is only one part of the process. The Strategic Planning Process really has three interconnected components:

  • The Strategic Plan
  • The Vision / Mission
  • The Implementation Scenarios / Plans
Perhaps, most importantly, all of this must be accomplished in a very short time frame so that your plans will not be obsolete before you execute them. The Prometheus Process, creation of a Vision / Mission, and the development of Scenario Plans are all so-called 'fast cycle’ processes. They are designed to yield robust, actionable plans in a very short time period.

Establishing a Vision —a statement of your dream or ideal conditions —and a Mission —what you do and why —provides shared language and common purpose for targeted action and intervention.

Scenario Planning, the last step in the strategic planning process, is a methodology for creating possible futures that can impact your company. It is forward looking and helps prepare your business for unanticipated consequences. Scenario Planning, used in conjunction with a well-thought out strategy, helps make execution more probable and more cost-effective.

Used in combination, all three ‘fast cycle’ processes: Prometheus; creation of your Vision and Mission, and the development of Scenario Plans to map out implementation, give you a precise and clear roadmap to your future: