Change happens. It is inevitable, and makes uncertainty ever-present. Knowhow, skills and experience definitely deliver some advantage, but success also is the benefit of luck and chance. Are you READY for what ever happens?
A prepared mind looks past what they know and what they have done. They openly and actively question what else they may be missing, what else makes somethings better. Their constantly seek to stretch, expand and connect their present understanding of one thing, place, time, person and or situation to any other. Learning is not finite and in the past, its’ very much in every moment and infinitely possible.
Doing it Yourself–going alone is faster and fine for a race, but to go far, at scale and/or create impact, pull together with your team.
Paraphrase Rudyard Kipling by Cyrus H. McCormick, 1917 The Harvester Club
Arkay Solutions prepares leaders to be Ready, Resourceful and Resilient.
How? Our job is to instill questioning that prepares them to find allies to remind, recognize blind-spots and troubleshot alternatives. We bring situational insights, and critical thinking tools to consider more than the first option, and avoid getting stuck in indecision.
Seeking to speed your progress, increase performance and quality, and/or align jobs that need doing to strategic intention?
Strategic Visioning
Strategic visions aren’t just mission statements that express your why. Your strategy reflects your organization’s belief about what’s possible, and extending potential into the probable.
Our solutions help you bring more clarity and depth to your purpose, and tell relatable stories that resonate. The key to effectively communicate your why and the what and still be you– more effortlessly, concisely and consistently.
- Guided experiences, facilitated reflection to make decisions right.
- Broader understanding, deeper awareness and clearer associations open pathways to growth faster.
Situational Awareness
At every level of the organization, your greatest source of compettive advantage begins with awareness. Actively collecting and nurturing collective senses. Encourage and reward a sense of what matters, what can be done, discovering what potential warrants developing, and investing in what’s most probable.
Practice that NUDGEs SOLUTIONS also AVOIDs CONFUSION and AMPLIFies IMPACT
Greater awareness is the greatest source of advantage.
By developing situational awareness at every level , marrying it with strategic intent, everyone’s capabilities grow.
Invest in communicating better and increase the value of all your systems’ investments, remove the ambiguity and automation, and AI agents will extend limited resources, and increase efficiency.
Connective checklists assure execution competency, bolster decision-making confidence and purpose driven engagement.
Don’t Feel Blindsided.
Experience change sooner, address unmet client/customer needs and enable your team to move forward, faster more effectively.
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Benefit from our extensive Professional advisory and operational Experiences:
- mining, modeling and activating data for planning
- driving technology transformations in regulated and competitive industries
- Leading, managing and delivering Outcomes in Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy services, Education, and Non-profits.
Our Services:
- Strategic Assessments. If you experience more risk than opportunity, challenged to validate or refute assumption, and short on resources as well as business intelligence, we can help.
- From Report and dashboard design, our assessment and recommendations Amplify internal Systems awareness and compose Connective checklists that bolster confidence and engagement
- Competitive Intelligence–Gauging Business Climate uncovering trends near and far most likely to impact your business.
- Gap Analysis–Evaluate what is, and what else can and will improve and close resource and competency gaps in Strategic Planning, Communications, and Daily Operations.
- Transformation–improves decision and operating efficiency and effectiveness with additional data Sources where and when most valuable.
- Workshops and Training
- Managerial Communications that Enhance Execution–practical role play, team building, and follow-through increase competency.
- Data Fundamentals–understanding statistical decision making to leverage AI, speed workflow, and optimize human intelligence.
- Strategic planning and Development–Situational awareness, risk management and alignment of people, processes to principles.
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Not Goldilocks
WELCOME
Oh hello. My name’s Rachel, and I’m the founder/principal of Arkay Solutions. (yes, named as the transliterated spelling of my initials). I’m based in Chicago and never tire of my vista of the city scape to the east. I’ve been an independent consultant since I left Corporate Banking to start my first internet business in NYC. Naively I thought hey I wanted to do for me personally what I was doing everyday for the bank– move and manipulate mountains of data and develop tools to optimize and report risk and reward. HA! I learned owning the data, systems and tools to manipulate was pretty critical to my success. So, naturally I used my skills to help other risk takers who too had hoped to bring their dreams to life with this wonderful new tool the internet.
I don’t write for a living, rather this blog is a place where I focus on sharing ideas to help other startups and small business founders think about their business. Not tools and tips to run it, but provoking them to lead and challenge their thinking about what’s possible.
As a complement to my Strategic Business Advisory services, this blog is leadership focused. It may suggest references or resources or even link to other blogs I write on either perception shifts, or strategic cases and reference articles on a specific topic and/or company. By all means I’m writing to be provocative, press for some emotion, so please do reply, post your thoughts or reaction.
If that’s not your cup of tea, I definitely recommend this tea. It’s my favorite.
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