Strategy development

To win at anything worthwhile, you need a game plan. Professional sports teams know this, and this idea applies to your organization, your department, your team – and even to yourself as an individual. To be successful means knowing how to use your talent and resources to best advantage, and it’s very difficult to “win” if you don’t have this game plan in place. Scope can introduce you to a common-sense, systematic approach to strategy development. Scope rely on our approach. In a for-profit company, for which competition and profitability are important, your goals will differ from those of a non-profit or government department. Likewise, objectives for a department or team will have a different scope from objectives for your organization as a whole. For example, and depending on scope and circumstances, you may want to develop strategies to:

Increase profitability.
Gain more market share.
Increase approval ratings, or boost customer satisfaction.
Complete a project under budget.

To determine your strategy, you must understand fully the internal and external environmental factors that affect you. With that understanding and with Scope assisting you can identify your clear advantages and use these to be successful. From there, you can make informed choices and implement your strategy effectively.

Scope will look at this process, and review some useful tools that can help you develop your strategy.

Key considerations when writing a brief:

Section 1 Undertaking sport and physical activity strategies

A good strategy combines clear vision, agreed direction and measurable outcomes based on accurate intelligence and analysis. Scope’s thoroughness and innovation ensures that your strategy meets your requirements and to justify need and realistic incorporation of explicit success measures. Scope recognise and that Sport and Physical Activity Strategies address participation, active lifestyles, health and well-being, cohesive delivery and outcomes.

Undertaking leisure facility strategies

Scope will consider provision and scale of provision, quality and affordability of the client, assess rationalisation options, determine priorities for replacement or renewal and set out how to maximise overall effectiveness.

Undertaking disabilities sport strategies

Scope are keen to develop strategies for our clients that address disability. Scope will ensure that our clients strategy will incorporate for individual sports, incorporate technical guidance, the location of the facility or sport, performance levels centred for scale, management and sequencing.

Developing business cases and options appraisals to explore alternative management models

Scope identifies the range of options available, assess strategies and weaknesses and financial implications of each. This includes management models that range from retaining service in house, going out to Trust, to exploring trusts and hybrid private sector partnerships.

Exploring ‘Trust’ options and enabling sustainable asset transfers

Scope will include:
• Whole Services – Identifying the best way to deliver management of whole leisure service portfolios to the community, taking into account the needs, aspirations of all partners, including schools, health and complimentary services.
• Single and Multiple – Sport and Leisure facilities from play facilities to theatres, school based sport centres our appraisals extend beyond fiscal comparisons, evaluation management options in the context of social value, the local environment and community need.
• Transferring Sports Development into Trust Environments – Supporting ground breaking initiatives to provide seamless delivery of sport and leisure services to residents.
• University Collaboration – Assessing the potential for joint development of combined university/Council sport and play provision.
• Cultural Services – Our expertise extends from standard sport and leisure to cultural, health and play facilities.