Open Strategy

Open Strategy is a collaborative approach to strategy that emphasises transparency and inclusiveness, inviting employees and external stakeholders into the strategy process. It transforms strategy from a closed, top-down exercise into an adaptive, participatory system that fosters engagement and better outcomes.

Foundstone Insights Article

What is Open Strategy?

Open Strategy is about actively involving people outside top management in the strategy process. This can include front-line staff, customers and other management who are outside of the executive team.

Foundstone Webinar

What is Open Strategy?

Foundstone Advisory hosted an Open Strategy webinar with Julia Hautz and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen, the co-authors of Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite. The webinar shed more light on Open Strategy and addressed some of the most frequently asked questions.

Hear about the fundamentals of Open Strategy from the global original authors themselves. Learn from real-world examples and how you can start applying the principles to your own leadership and organisation.

Our Take

The Foundstone Strategy Methodology

Over many years we’ve honed our proven method through real-world strategy work and client outcomes. We get that it’s not always a linear process. We work with you to construct the right approach for your organisation and modernise your strategy.

Taking an Open Strategy approach speeds up the overall strategy and execution process by 30-50% compared to the traditional approach.

Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen – Co-author of Open Strategy