Strategy Consulting

Turn Your Vision Into Reality

In an industry marked by rapid change and increasing complexity, having a comprehensive, clear strategic plan is essential. At GreatCo-Ops, we combine expertise and AI to help electric cooperatives navigate their evolving context, ensuring they’re not just prepared for the future, but actively shaping it.

Why GreatCo-Ops?

To prepare your co-op for the disruptions ahead, you need an experienced electric cooperative strategy consultant who leverages the immense power of AI. That's exactly what you get with GreatCo-Ops.

Comprehensive:
The strategic planning approach pioneered by GreatCo-Ops is the most comprehensive in the industry. It ensures that your plan is thorough, tightly integrated, and embraced by the board and your team.
Experienced:
Our deep understanding of electric cooperatives – combined with decades of experience as strategy consultants and researchers – allows us to provide insights that are relevant and actionable.
Results-driven:
Our process delivers a shared vision for the future, improved resource alignment, a sharper focus, better teamwork, and stronger board-management relations.
AI-supported: GreatCo-Ops pioneered the use of AI in electric cooperative strategic planning. Our specially-designed AI tools are ideal for use during our engagement and afterward to ensure your strategic plan fits your evolving context.

Our Strategy Consulting Process

Every strategy engagement is unique, because every cooperative is at a different stage of development when it comes to strategic planning. That’s why we custom-tailor every engagement to fit the client’s exact needs. Some cooperatives want the total package, while some may simply want strategy coaching for the CEO. Regardless, we’re here to serve.

Most of our strategy work with cooperatives includes developing a comprehensive strategic plan, as well as providing advice on strategy execution.

Our Strategy Engagements Typically Involve Some Combination of:

Document Reviews

We work hard to know the co-ops we serve. That means we start by reviewing past strategic plans, annual reports, 990s, board meeting minutes, member and employee survey results, and more.

Stakeholder Engagement

We conduct structured virtual interviews with senior staff and the board to dig into the most important issues facing the co-op. We also survey employees as preferred.

Context Assessment

We work together – alongside our AI strategy tools – to thoroughly understand and analyze the co-op’s evolving operating context.

Formal Strategic Plan Development

We coach co-op leadership in drafting a strategic plan using the GreatCo-Ops template and our AI strategy tools to make sure every piece is in place for a successful future.

Senior Staff Meetings

We facilitate virtual senior staff meetings to fine-tune the plan.

Board and Staff Strategy Retreat

We help you plan and implement a retreat to build consensus on the plan and your path forward.

Strategy Execution

We assess your approach to strategy implementation and performance monitoring to ensure your strategy process is sustained and successful over the long haul.

On-Demand Support

Our team is available on-demand for consultations, supporting your efforts every step of the way.

In addition, many of our strategy engagements are followed by a risk management engagement to help you build a risk management process and toolkit to identify and mitigate the risks that are inherent in your plan and in your operations.

The GreatCo-Ops Difference in Strategic Planning

Many facilitators claim expertise in strategic planning, but only GreatCo-Ops has the experience, templates, custom-designed AI tools, and structured approach this complex task requires.