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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

The visible of objectives and how pursuits link back to sector strategies is really beneficial. At any time our leadership team has full visibility of how we are meeting our strategic objectives and highlight the key areas of focus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

A task list would be great. I hear this is in the making and will make it a full end to end strategy execution tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Harmonic are using strategyworks to manage our transformation from a resource provider to a management consultancy.

The tool has allowed us to manage all of our project effectively and ensure they are linked to strategy. If they are not we have clear visibility and can make an early qualification decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

StrategyWorks Overview

What is StrategyWorks?

StrategyWorks is an easy-to-use strategy management solution which creates a real time, single view of your strategy. It integrates delivery across the organisation and links it to strategic outcomes, enabling you focus resources on what really matters. Objectives, KPIs, OKRs and all aspects of delivery can be fully managed and maintained within StrategyWorks. StrategyWorks can also link and manage any execution and data in third party systems to give you a live, fully integrated, complete view of all aspects of strategy, value management and accountability. StrategyWorks is your complete platform to manage all aspects of execution and delivery in a simple, beautiful system. StrategyWorks is used by stakeholders across the organisation, from leadership team members, to PMO staff to delivery leads and staff working in teams. StrategyWorks is now fully featured and FREE for your first 5 users so you can test out and try the power of StrategyWorks in your organisation.

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Shapecast Strategy Execution software gives business leaders, strategy owners, execution teams and PMO leaders the ability to track, manage and monitor the complete execution of their strategy against the organisation objectives.


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Shapecast
Year Founded
2010
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London, GB
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Recent StrategyWorks Reviews

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Frankie M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Often miss deadlines"
StrategyWorks does not provide impactful guidance when it comes to planning. Their wealth of knowledge in developing strategies has not propelled m...
KS
Kristie S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.0 out of 5
"Industry expertise is somewhat limited"
StrategyWorks complicates the business strategies, with their poor expertise. Their team of professionals does not grasp the market's heartbeat. Of...
Tammy T.
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Tammy T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great program- helps tremendously!"
Customer support and ease of use are two of the best things about this program.
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StrategyWorks Demo - Personalised dashboards
Each user from executive to project manager has personalised dashboards that enable them to focus on what is most important
StrategyWorks Demo - Single view of your strategy
StrategyWorks provides a single, live view of all programs and projects linked to your strategic objectives (OKRs) in real time. Drill down through any level of execution. All delivery information is integrated live from third party systems
StrategyWorks Demo - Track ownership and accountability
StrategyWorks tracks ownership and accountability for all aspects of strategy and delivery across the organisations
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FM
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

StrategyWorks does not provide impactful guidance when it comes to planning. Their wealth of knowledge in developing strategies has not propelled my business forward. The team is not incredibly knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

It's not approachable and needs to be committed to delivering tangible results. What dislike the most is their lack of ability to adapt their strategies to industries and tailor them to meet needs. StrategyWorks does not understand the problem of business growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Their customer service is slow and unresponsive making problem resolution an experience. The pricing structure needs to benefit from transparency as unexpected hidden fees and additional charges tend to pop up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

StrategyWorks complicates the business strategies, with their poor expertise. Their team of professionals does not grasp the market's heartbeat. Offers made solutions that dpes not deliver concrete outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

The attention they give to every detail in their approach is not worthy not ensuring that all facets of my business are taken into account. StrategyWorks has not aided me in making informed decisions and accomplishing my goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

StrategyWorks falls short in terms of transparency and communication with their clients, which makes it difficult to track progress or address concerns. The pricing structure also lacks clarity leaving customers uncertain about what they're paying for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tammy T.
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

Customer support and ease of use are two of the best things about this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

There is not really a bad thing to say about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps with the reporting and comparison. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

The key to successful strategy execution is always the alignment projects and programmes to outcomes, accountability and transparency. Strategy Works forces you to think about these critical factors as soon as you begin defining or shaping your strategy and then simply and effectively enables you to track and monitor progress across the end to end strategy and crucially, equips you to effect change and actively ensure successful delivery - I love that this can be all 'live' in the tool AND available via real-time reporting.

Also, on the accountability front - successful projects have the team making an impact on what needs to get done rather than reporting endlessly on whether it is or isn't on track. Because the reporting is all automated and real-time Strategy Works free's up the project managers and project team to do exactly that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

I'm a details geek, so I would increase the level of detail available in the costs and benefits sections - it's quite a focused 'request' and may not suit of be useful for everyone else using the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it to help businesses execute more strongly on their strategy. Helping to drive greater transparency and accountability across initiatives and spend. Helping to define projedcts and programmes with a better chance of influencing business strategy positively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PF
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

Complete clarity and accountability for all strategic related activity on single platform.

This beautifully designed execution tool enables leadership teams to define, allocate, track and manage the delivery of multiple strategic programmes across multiple delivery teams providing visibility and clarity of the objectives, supporting strategies and activities through an intuitive and realtime analytics dashboard.

The simple and user friendly dashboard provides all key topline information in a single view so no need to go hunting. Navigating and drilling down for further detail is easy and logically with even the most complex data displayed in a clear and succint format allowing easy identification of activity that is running late, behind or on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

A mobile app providing a 'light' version of the platform would be hugely beneficial Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Senior exec teams within large organisations often want regular sight and update of their programme portfolios. This often involves delivery teams running around the organisation collecting various amounts of data on spreadsheets whilst wasting valuable hours compiling and consolidating data into multiple reports.

StrategyWorks allows delivery teams to go about their day to day business whilst senior key stakeholders have the ability to engage with the platform to pull any reports they so wish. This is ensures timely, consistant and real time reporting without the business interuption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elliot Z.
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

How it helps me view how our projects are driving the strategic goals that the company has set Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

It needs a bit of time to implement, but there's a great professional services team in place to support this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

I get to know which projects should be focused on and which should be stopped (as they're not helping us with our business strategy). This means we can save money and increase the speed of delivering the change we need to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

Our leadership team places value in Strategy Execution and we are happy to be working with a tool that aligns to our way of thinking.

(1) The interface is clean and logical which helps direct our thinking.

(2) The ability to drill down into details for assessment of value and investment in each portfolio.

(3) Comprehensive & flexible reporting features - progress, objectives, KPI, benefits, etc.

(4) There is also a thorough and helpful knowledgebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

Any chance this, or part of it such as reports, can be an app for a mobile phone? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are glad to use StrategyWorks not only for ourselves but also for our own clients. The value that we are able to gain from this product is what we expect to pass along to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
UM
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

Many companies struggle to determine what programmes and projects directly support strategic aims and what don’t. Also, it’s often difficult to demonstrate whether a programme or project still continues to support company strategy, even if it did at initiation. I have run exercises with a number of my clients to rationalise portfolios so that all programmes and projects therein demonstrate clear support for strategy and are not in the portfolio because of someone shouting loud enough. StrategyWorks would have been a really useful tool to have at that time.

Impressive features include:

• Drill down capability – great tool being able to drill down through the hierarchy from vision right down to activity.

• Local terminology mapping – very helpful to be able to change SW native terms to whatever the customer is familiar with.

• Dashboard – very useful way of displaying key information.

• Reporting e.g. Benefit Alignment Report – I love this one. “40 Projects with No Planned Benefit” – Brilliant! Let’s terminate them!

• Sliding timescale – I really like the way you can shrink or extend the time scale using the grey bar at the bottom of the screen – this is helpful for viewing a snapshot in time as well as the full timescale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

Some small areas for improvement - given the newness of SW this is not surprising and I'm sure that the ShapeCast Team have these covered within the SW product roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

See above. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Derek H.
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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

The visibility, it provides while planning and executing our plans; in particular being able to quickly identify the programmes and projects which were not aligned with our business objectives and key outcomes.

What was important for us through the whole process was being able to clearly identify what was working and what wasn’t. This really allowed us to reshape what we were doing which had a really significant impact on our plans.

Also, our programme and project teams were able to raise in a timely manner issues, risks and decisions relating to their activities, that needed to be brought to the attention of the leadership team. In time, I can see it replacing our monthly status reports.

What really made a difference to us what this isn’t just another point tool. Shapecast had a whole structure and method which really helped us through process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

The team at Shapecast, were very responsive to our feedback. Though it would be nice to have a feature that allowed every member of the team to directly communicate the feedback to Shapecast on 1:1 basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering StrategyWorks:

Strategy Execution is great product for planning, executing and monitoring all the initiatives for your organisation, allowing you to constantly track which ones are generating value and which ones need to be reviewed. Don’t confuse it with a project/portfolio management tool. This whole process is really about making sure you’re doing the right thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our rapid growth, opened many routes to market which we were keen to exploit. By working with Shapecast, we were able to plan our portfolio of programmes and projects ensuring they were aligned with our objectives and vision, allowing us to de-prioritise certain programmes with low value and focus our attentions on those that were critical to achieving our key outcomes.

When it came to executing the plan, the leadership team had complete visibility over the whole portfolio and could see where and why projects were stalling or tracking behind their timelines. At the same time, our project teams had a clearer understanding of their responsibilities and accountabilities as well as an appreciation of the company vision and the part they played in supporting it.

We now have a fully aligned and joined up activity plan, the outcomes of which will enable us to take full advantage of the global opportunities that will present themselves over the next 12 months leading to a conservative budgeted revenue increase of around 15% on 2017 results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about StrategyWorks?

Ease of use, beautifully designed and the fact that we could see in a single platform all the initiatives we are running, how they are contributing to our goals and complete visibility of when and who is responsible for delivering the various activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StrategyWorks?

Ability to attach files to the various initiatives would be great? Dashboard is really useful but an added ability to improve notifications?? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering StrategyWorks:

If you want a product which forces you to have clarity on our goals and keep you on track by providing the high-level overview of all your activities and yet at the same time allowing you to zoom in on areas which needed attention, then I highly recommend the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StrategyWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?

By allowing us to link our goals and objectives to every activity, we found it to be a powerful tool to communicate the ‘Why’ we were following a certain path to our staff and enabled them to focus on activities which contributed most to our growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.