The demanding and highly competitive environment, within which companies/businesses develop today, calls for extra efficient management. In this context, strategy-driven decision-making becomes a pressurising process, which needs to be dealt with fast and efficiently.

Management needs to be driven by an excellent sense of strategy and highly efficient monitoring of crucial activities and undertakings within a company, so that a precise evaluation of performance and outcomes can take place. This kind of evaluation can be seen as the basis on which strategy-driven decision-making will be done.

In the context of management design, which pre-requires well-planned strategic design, there are provided consulting services to help work out a strategy/business plan towards a company's development. This is done in line with the chosen, at the time, strategy. Management design examines and focuses on the following:

The following points are connected to the setting of management targets (that will ultimately serve the company's strategy).

• How these targets will be achieved
• How they will be subsidised
• How they will be materialised
• How the progress of their materialisation will be monitored (this requires the setting of specific and monitorable progress indicators and, if required, the development of a related logistics system)

The inspiration behind putting together a business plan lies in the methodologies Balanced Scorecard and Appreciative Inquiry, which are an indispensable part of everyday business practise and help companies and organisations to materialise efficiently their strategies, at the same time turning these strategies into monitorable targets. Dr Robert Kaplan (Harvard University), produced the Balanced Scoreboard methodology and is considered ''the most highly regarded specialist in Business Plan development to have appeared in the last 35 years''