Macway Uhl helped a major independent oil and gas company revamp its strategic planning process.

Challenge

A natural gas exploration and development company recognized that its strategic planning tools were broken.  Bogged down by excessive detail and legacy systems, the system was cumbersome, resource intensive, and shed little insight on the strategic challenges facing the company.

Solution

Macway Uhl worked with the company to develop a template based strategic planning model tailored to the needs of executive management.   

The strategic planning model:

• Was based on building blocks around the key strategic entities for the company, rather than around the raw data models
• Analyzed in real-time the strategic gaps the company faced, and the options for closing those gaps
• Fed directly into the annual budgeting process, eliminating redundant work and allowing technical staff to focus on the business rather than budgetary detail

Results

• A significantly streamlined annual planning and budgeting process that enabled the client to focus on strategic issues rather than budgetary mechanics.