Andrew Constable, MBA, LSSBB

Do you have a real strategy or just a plan that looks like one? 

Most organisations fail because their strategy isn’t clearly defined or it isn’t consistently executed.

Leaders tell me the same thing again and again:

“We are not confident our strategy is the right one and even when it is, it’s not being delivered. 

This dual challenge - strategy design and execution - is the core problem I help organisations with. 

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡

CEOs, Chief Strategy Officers, transformation leaders, and senior teams who want to:

↳ Clarify strategic choices and sharpen where-to-play/how-to-win
↳ Align functions and break down siloed execution
↳ Turn Balanced Scorecards, KPIs, OKRs into performance drivers—not reporting tools
↳ Build a culture of discipline, focus, and accountability using EFQM
↳ Strengthen innovation and business model design
↳ Move from “strategic plans” to measurable, sustainable results

Whether working in Europe, North America, Asia, or the GCC, these challenges show up everywhere—and the costs are universal.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩

I partner with leadership teams in:

1. Strategy Formulation
Clear choices, evidence-based design, and actionable strategic narratives using tools like Play-to-Win, Blue Ocean Strategy, and strategic foresight.

2. Strategy Execution Systems
Balanced Scorecards, OKRs, KPI and EFQM systems built to activate action—not bureaucracy.

3. Business Model Innovation
Helping organisations reimagine how they create, deliver, and capture value using Strategyzer, Lean Startup, and evidence-based innovation practices.

My approach blends practical execution expertise with the rigour of academic research and global experience.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐞

↳ Thinkers360 Top Voice 2023–2025 for strategy / innovation
↳ International experience with organisations including IBM, Roche, Symrise, NEC, and Informa
↳ Deep expertise across strategy formulation, execution, and business model innovation
↳ 2x Master's degrees, MBA & Master of Professional Practice  + DBA candidate researching the root causes of strategy–execution failure
↳ Certified in the world's leading strategy / Innovation frameworks

Credentials matter only because they help me solve the problem that matters most:

👉 Closing the gap between strategy design and strategy delivery.

When organisations fix that gap, they move faster, innovate smarter, and sustain higher performance.

If your strategy isn’t fully translating into results, let’s talk.

📩 andrew.constable@visualisesolutions.co.uk
🌐 www.visualisesolutions.co.uk

Principal Managing Partner

We are a consulting firm headquartered in the heart of Leicestershire, UK.

We help medium-sized businesses innovate and make measurable progress towards their business outcomes so their companies thrive.

Over the years, we’ve used proven and guaranteed Innovation and strategy execution processes to generate tangible business outcomes in 12 weeks ⏱️ for companies including Roche, IBM and many others.

Our services include

Innovation Programmes 🌟
Strategy Execution Programmes 🌟
OKR Programmes 🌟
Strategic Management 🌟

Working with a budget? Let’s talk.

Andrew Constable, MBA

Strategy fails long before execution.

It fails at posture.

Most organisations don’t have a strategy problem.
They have a strategic posture problem.

Here’s what that actually means:

☑ Strategic posture is your dominant orientation.
↳ Are you aggressive or defensive?
↳ Shaping markets or reacting to them?
↳ Optimising for efficiency or innovation?
↳ Protecting the core or exploring new growth?

It reflects:
↳ Risk appetite
↳ Growth ambition
↳ Competitive intent
↳ Innovation intensity
↳ Resource allocation bias

It’s the umbrella logic behind every " where to play " and " how to win " choice.

And most leaders never make it explicit.

The 4 classic postures (Miles & Snow model):

☑ Prospector
↳ Constant innovation
↳ First-mover behaviour
↳ High risk tolerance
↳ Heavy R&D investment

Example: Tesla in its early EV push.

☑ Defender
↳ Protects core markets
↳ Cost discipline
↳ Operational efficiency
↳ Limited innovation

Example: Ryanair.

☑ Analyzer
↳ Hybrid model
↳ Defends the core
↳ Selectively innovates
↳ Follows proven breakthroughs

Example: Apple.

☑ Reactor
↳ No consistent logic
↳ Strategy by pressure
↳ Internal misalignment

This isn’t a posture.
It’s a warning sign.

Now here’s where most companies get it wrong:

They confuse posture with strategy.

Strategic posture = broad stance.
Strategy = specific choices.

Posture shapes:
☑ Investment decisions
☑ KPI design
☑ Org structure
☑ Talent profile
☑ OKRs

If your KPIs reward Defender behaviour…
But leadership declares a Prospector ambition…

You don’t have a performance issue.

You have structural hypocrisy.

That’s how the strategy–execution gap widens.

Posture must be visible in:

☑ Capital allocation
☑ Leadership behaviour
☑ Performance systems
☑ Capability building

If it’s not embedded in systems,
it’s just rhetoric.

Another lens to think about posture:

☑ Offensive vs Defensive
☑ Growth vs Harvest
☑ Differentiation vs Cost Leadership
☑ Exploration vs Exploitation

At its core:

Strategic posture is your organisation’s attitude toward uncertainty and competition.

Make it explicit.
Align systems to it.
Or accept drift.

Strategy doesn’t fail in PowerPoint.
It fails in posture.

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Just over 4 years ago this business was a twinkle in my eye…

3 years ago we held our first event

This week was C2C Live #7 and as usual it was amazing (+ a bit emotional)

Loads of our clients in a room together + an all-client + team speaker line-up.

Thanks for taking the trip → I’m glad it was valuable!

Another thank you to the amazing speakers: (especially Fern and Sandie who flew in from NYC and Denmark)

And of course the team who I’m grateful to have on my side every day… Katie Viktoria 

Even though they gang up on me. 

Now I’m gonna eat pizza and sleeeeeep 🍕…

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Just because someone’s post has lots of likes doesn’t mean they’re good. 

Remember - The Cheeky Girls got to number 1. 

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Today’s the day the C2C team + clients come together to make some big in-person moves. 

Every single event without exception has been amazing. 

Wanna know why? 

Most event organisers make you sit + listen to a load of uninspiring speakers. 

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But we only let people speak if it’ll help our clients take action. 

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Just read a post from someone…

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Here’s my perspective…

If I can’t call you mate, don’t ever buy from me

Glad we cleared that up mate 🤣

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If I see another

“You don’t have an X problem”

“You have a Y problem”

Then you’re gonna have a “one less follower” problem

👀 Everyone was staring at me in the supermarket car park.

Don’t worry… I was fully clothed this time.

I walked out of the shop pushing a trolley with 20 cases of Liquid Death.

That’s 240 cans of water.

They’re usually £18 a case but they were reduced to £1.

And before you roll your eyes at me for buying water in a can…

…it’s not because I’m “too good” for tap water. My body IS a temple but the temple’s been…well used.

I bought 240 cans of water because when I know they’re in the fridge, I actually drink water.

When I don’t I forget, get dehydrated and the temple gets even more neglected.

I say this ALL the time to our clients inside C2C:

Create the systems, environment + conditions that will make it more likely you’ll succeed.

Want more clients? 
Create systems + workflows that mean you know what you have to do every day. 

Want consistent income? 
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You can keep telling yourself you’re gonna do the right things more consistently. Or you can put actual mechanisms in place to make it more likely.

Ask yourself now - what are you winging and what are you doing intentionally?

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Apparently this is abnormal…. 

I don’t wash my face. 

Water, moisturiser, maybe a bit of beard cream if I’m feeling fancy. 

Job done. 

Tell me about your skincare routine. 

JOKING don’t, I don’t care…

tell me what other people tell you you’re abnormal for doing or not doing instead. 

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