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The ACT Process – Designed By Leaders for Leaders

More than 25 years ago, groups of CEOs, Division Presidents and their executive teams gathered each year to participate in an innovative program at Harvard Business School that was chaired by one of our founding partners, Bob Miles. The executives worked collaboratively on their top business challenges with peers and key faculty. They developed action plans to implement.

They returned nine months later to describe how the solutions worked and how they could be improved.

After several years of the program, a clear pattern emerged.

The biggest and most common problem facing executives was not in coming up with the next strategy, but rather how to turn big ideas into big results. The process, we now call ACT, was built on the best-practices that surfaced through that program. Over the years, the process has been refined and streamlined through its use by business leaders in their efforts to accelerate growth.

As a result, the ACT process stands as a unique leader-led approach specifically designed by leaders, for leaders.

A New Model
Some of the primary complaints about traditional consulting are that it is too expensive, focused more on analysis than results, generates impractical solutions, requires too many junior consultants to deliver, and it has a tendency to make the internal people disengage.

There is a new model of management consulting and Dissero is on the front end of that change.

The key principles for operating under the new model are:

• Create value by providing senior experts, not 'leveraged staff
• Leverage the full capabilities of the internal client teams
• Provide open source access to resources (tools, assessments, processes, etc.)
• Align compensation with business results

These principles are beginning to reshape the consulting industry and will bring into alignment the best interests of consulting firms with their clients.

Learn more at disseropartners.com.