how we help

Our Mission

We design practical, comprehensive, and inclusive solutions that leading organizations deserve to make confident decisions and solve their most compelling product, customer, and organizational challenges.

Bago City, Philippines

Case Study
A Vision
for 1 Million
Entrepreneurs

At the end of 2021, Partners Worldwide (PW) asked OnCenter to bring clarity and structure to their long-range plan and process. Over the next eight weeks, OnCenter collaborated with PW's Global Strategy Team to deliver ​a clear, inspirational plan that honored and retained the voices of the global partner network.

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Chicago, IL

Case Study
Sustainability
That Keeps
"Good" Alive

The Simple Good approached OnCenter to construct a custom strategy to build corporate infrastructure, create board governance, and invest in program growth. Over the next 10 weeks, ​OnCenter and TSG built a plan where organizational strategy, funding strategy, and program strategy were all aligned.

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Nairobi, Kenya

Case Study
Confident
Decisions That
Spur Growth

The Humanity Share engaged OnCenter to craft the organization's first long-range plan. Six months later, the team was aligned around a flexible strategic plan that allowed them to grow staff, fundraising, and programs during a pandemic, while honoring the voices of their East African partners.

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Our Approach

Our approach is different than any other team you've partnered with. Three main distinctives separate us from a crowd of potential consultancies and design agencies who are often focused more on sounding smart than delivering value. Our work is comprehensive, our style is deeply inclusive, and our resulting solutions are practical and useful.

Comprehensive

In order to make wise decisions, we must first be able to see the full picture. Our approach reveals deep, often hidden truths that lift the blindfold and help teams see the whole playing field.
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We utilize a robust research and discovery process—including design research interviews, human-centered design, and industry research—to understand the full scope of a client’s business, industry, teams, and customers. The result is a full set of potential long-term strategic choices that truly relate to and support desired outcomes.

Inclusive

In decision-making, we must consider diverse perspectives and look at the picture through multiple lenses. Our approach welcomes and hears all key stakeholders, ensuring our solutions are relevant and vetted.

We invite, make paths for, and give equal merit to different styles of thinking, contributing, and problem-solving across seniority levels. Teammates, customers, and industry experts are comfortable speaking up and overcoming biases towards common information. This results in grounded, vetted insights and potential solutions supported with full buy-in, alignment, empowerment, and the benefit of the team seeing and believing the vision.

Practical

If our plans are to be useful, our set of potential strategic choices must be clear and actionable. Our approach doesn’t overcomplicate or obfuscate the situation, but rather takes a full and wholly-considered view of the problem and delivers a grounded, useful, and effective solution.

We carefully balance the grand opportunism of big picture thinking with the tangible necessities of making teams’ tasks tangible and actionable. Our solutions rely on language that anyone can understand and interpret. Every word is clear, digestible and actionable.

How We Help

 

Strategic Advisory

We help the world's difference-makers become the world's wisest decision-makers by focusing on their business, people, and products.

Business

95% of employees are unaware of—or do not understand—their company's strategy. It's no wonder then that over 66% of strategies fail. From long-range planning and succession planning to change management, we're here to help leaders make better decisions. We'd love to be your partner.

People

Effective strategies endure unexpected challenges because they flow through engaged teams in high trust organizations. Our approach to organizational challenges like leadership and talent development goes well beyond coaching and educational portals.

Product

Whether you're launching a new product or refining your current service offering, we can support your next effort from idea to prototype to go-to-market. Our inclusive, comprehensive, and practical approach is designed to keep your best ideas off the cutting room floor, so they can mature and shape the world we live in.

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