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.

Ps. if you like content like this, please follow me.

Andrew Constable, MBA, Prof M

Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.

Making innovation happen is a tough job! It requires priority, management buy-in, creativity, structure and perseverance.

Do you want to double your innovation effectiveness and create a culture for innovation? Then I can help you for sure.

As an empathic storyteller with 40 years of innovation experience all over the world, I will inspire you with my speeches, workshops and innovation methods, in a practical way, delivering quick wins and changing mindsets leading to long term change in your organisation. 

I am honoured to be chosen by LinkedIn as Influencer, thanking all of my 310.000+ followers. Thinkers360 just awarded me as Number One Global Thought Leader on Design Thinking in 2024. And my book ‘The Innovation Maze’ was crowned as Management Book of the Year.

When you want to spark a culture for innovation in your organisation, I can add value in four ways:

1. As author with 5 innovation books. Check out 'Inspiration for Innovation', 'The Innovation Maze' and my 'classic' on innovation 'The Innovation Expedition', an my innovation bestseller on Amazon.

2. As storyteller with keynote lectures (online). As illustrative storyteller with an informal style, full of insight, humor, and entertainment I inspire leadership teams, innovators and business professionals on innovation and design thinking (see gijsvanwulfen.com).

3. As practical trainer in workshops (online). In 1 -, or 2-day workshops, I train your people in a very practical way how to start innovation and create a culture for innovation within your organisation (see gijsvanwulfen.com).

4. As facilitator with the proven FORTH innovation method. With the structured FORTH methodology I help people in organizations worldwide to jumpstart innovation and create new products, services and business models (see www.forth-innovation.com). Scientific research has proven that FORTH doubles the effectiveness of your innovation process, as 3 out of 4 new business cases get launched.

Call or direct message me when you are looking for a speaker, workshop facilitator to increase your innovation effectiveness at 0030 6985716289 or gijs@forth-innovation.com

Specialties: Innovation. Design Thinking. Ideation. Service Innovation. Innovation management. Innovation Organisation. Innovation culture. Innovation leadership. Concept development. Product innovation. New business development. New Product Development (NPD). Design Thinking. Brainstorming. Innovation seminars, innovation workshops, innovation presentations, innovation key-notes, FORTH innovation method, innovation consulting, innovation training.

Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen

Innovators live in the ‘land of NO’. Here’s what to do …

No budget.
No time.
My boss won’t like it.
It doesn’t fit the system.
We’ve never done this before.

No.
No.
No.
No.

Real innovators, innovation consultants and facilitators like us, hear these words every day.

What to do to end the ‘FRUSTRATION’

🎬 Here is my 30-second reflection from the brown chair.

Lots of success,

Gijs van Wulfen

Keynote speaker innovation 
Founder FORTH innovation method
Nr. One influencer on design thinking (speakers360)

#innovation #leadership #intrapreneurship #corporateinnovation #InnovationCulture #notoinnovation #frustation #innovationvideo

Award-winning innovation keynote speaker | Founder of the FORTH innovation method | Empowering and training the world’s innovation facilitators

How do you become a world-class innovation facilitator in just 6 days? 

By joining me in Italy 🇮🇹, June 7–12, 2026.

I’m hosting a small, intimate FORTH Innovation Certification Training (10~12 participants) at Cascina Caremma, an authentic organic farm just south of Milan. Six intense days, in English, working on a real innovation challenge – and you’ll be facilitating from the start.  

You will learn how to:
	•	Apply the FORTH Innovation Method – a proven approach that doubles innovation effectiveness compared to regular stage-gate processes.
	•	Facilitate hybrid innovation journeys: in-person workshops combined with online collaboration MIRO.
	•	Move from fuzzy front end to validated concepts that your organisation (or clients) can actually implement.
	•	Boost your personal facilitation skills and confidence with a diverse international group.
	•	Enjoy an unforgettable culinary Italian week – all breakfasts, lunches and dinners together, creating a true community of innovators.

And yes, you’ll go home as a certified FORTH Innovation Facilitator – with access to the digital toolbox and our global community.

If you’re:
	•	an innovation manager or project leader
	•	a consultant or facilitator
	•	or simply the one who always pushes for new ideas…

…then this week in Italy might be a turning point in your career.

👉 Interested? Download the brochure and send me a direct message.

#FORTHInnovation #InnovationFacilitation #DesignThinking #InnovationLeadership #InnovationTraining #HybridWorkshops #Creativity #Italy2026

Become a world-class innovation facilitator in six days

Most innovations fail because of invisible barriers.

In my latest book Breaking Innovation Barriers I describe the Wall of Innovation: 15 obstacles that quietly stop innovation inside organisations.

A few common ones:

• Fear of failure
• Bureaucracy
• Organisational silos
• Short-term focus
• Risk aversion
• “This worked before” thinking
• Unclear innovation ROI

Sound familiar?

The good news: every barrier can be broken.

That’s why this book shares 15 practical strategies to win management buy-in and move innovation forward. So check out the link in the comments to boost your effectiveness.

Which barrier do you encounter most often?

#innovation #leadership #business #management #strategy #entrepreneurship #change #growth 🚀

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“Innovation without strategy is shooting in the dark.”

Too often innovation starts without a clear direction.

Teams brainstorm.
Ideas are generated.
Workshops are organised.

And then… nothing happens.

Why? Because innovation without strategy rarely leads to real impact.

That’s exactly why I developed the FORTH Innovation Method.

FORTH connects innovation with business strategy and guides teams step-by-step from opportunity to validated concept. Instead of random ideas, you build innovation that management wants to support.

Over the past years, organisations worldwide have used FORTH to double their innovation effectiveness. The method is now available in 14 languages and applied by companies across many industries.

If you want to learn how to apply this structured innovation approach yourself, join the FORTH Innovation Facilitator Training.

📍 Italy 🇮🇹 
📅 June 7–12, 2026
👥 A small international group of innovation professionals
🧠 Learn how to guide teams from opportunity to validated business concepts

You will leave with:
✔ A proven innovation method
✔ World-class Facilitation skills
✔ Real cases and tools you can immediately apply

If you believe innovation should be strategic, structured, and successful, this training is for you.

Let’s stop shooting in the dark. Send me a direct message to get a brochure.

#innovation #strategy #innovationmanagement #forthinnovationmethod #innovationtraining #designthinking #innovationfacilitation

Innovators: “make them nervous!”

When every new initiative is frozen, many innovators ask: What can I still do?

My advice: make your bosses nervous.

Not about innovation.
About doing nothing.

Right now, many organisations think freezing initiatives reduces risk. But the real risk is standing still while markets shift, competitors move, and technologies accelerate.

So change the conversation.

Don’t only pitch new ideas.
Show the cost of inaction.

Show what competitors are doing.
Show where customers are moving.
Show what will happen if nothing changes.

Because when leaders start to realise that doing nothing is the bigger risk, innovation suddenly becomes the safer option.

Watch 🎥 my short armchair thought for innovators facing frozen budgets.

#innovation #leadership #changemanagement #corporateinnovation #innovationstrategy #innovationvideo

💥 Frustrated by Innovation? This Book Is My Gift to You.


Let’s be honest.
Innovation can be frustrating — and right now, it’s even tougher.

That’s why I wrote Breaking Innovation Barriers.

It’s a practical book for everyone who still believes in progress — even when resources are tight.

👉 I’m giving it away for free to everyone on LinkedIn who feels stuck or unheard in innovation today.

Simply type ‘breaking innovation barriers’ in the comments (and send me a connection request).

I’ll personally send you a pdf of the book in a direct message as a first contact.

Ps. Don’t tell my publisher 😉.

#innovation #designthinking #corporateinnovation #innovationmanagement #innovationBook #culture #creativity #freebook

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