Andrew Constable, MBA, LSSBB

Do you have a real strategy or just a plan that looks like one? 

Most organisations fail because their strategy isn’t clearly defined or it isn’t consistently executed.

Leaders tell me the same thing again and again:

“We are not confident our strategy is the right one and even when it is, it’s not being delivered. 

This dual challenge - strategy design and execution - is the core problem I help organisations with. 

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡

CEOs, Chief Strategy Officers, transformation leaders, and senior teams who want to:

↳ Clarify strategic choices and sharpen where-to-play/how-to-win
↳ Align functions and break down siloed execution
↳ Turn Balanced Scorecards, KPIs, OKRs into performance drivers—not reporting tools
↳ Build a culture of discipline, focus, and accountability using EFQM
↳ Strengthen innovation and business model design
↳ Move from “strategic plans” to measurable, sustainable results

Whether working in Europe, North America, Asia, or the GCC, these challenges show up everywhere—and the costs are universal.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩

I partner with leadership teams in:

1. Strategy Formulation
Clear choices, evidence-based design, and actionable strategic narratives using tools like Play-to-Win, Blue Ocean Strategy, and strategic foresight.

2. Strategy Execution Systems
Balanced Scorecards, OKRs, KPI and EFQM systems built to activate action—not bureaucracy.

3. Business Model Innovation
Helping organisations reimagine how they create, deliver, and capture value using Strategyzer, Lean Startup, and evidence-based innovation practices.

My approach blends practical execution expertise with the rigour of academic research and global experience.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐞

↳ Thinkers360 Top Voice 2023–2025 for strategy / innovation
↳ International experience with organisations including IBM, Roche, Symrise, NEC, and Informa
↳ Deep expertise across strategy formulation, execution, and business model innovation
↳ 2x Master's degrees, MBA & Master of Professional Practice  + DBA candidate researching the root causes of strategy–execution failure
↳ Certified in the world's leading strategy / Innovation frameworks

Credentials matter only because they help me solve the problem that matters most:

👉 Closing the gap between strategy design and strategy delivery.

When organisations fix that gap, they move faster, innovate smarter, and sustain higher performance.

If your strategy isn’t fully translating into results, let’s talk.

📩 andrew.constable@visualisesolutions.co.uk
🌐 www.visualisesolutions.co.uk

Principal Managing Partner

We are a consulting firm headquartered in the heart of Leicestershire, UK.

We help medium-sized businesses innovate and make measurable progress towards their business outcomes so their companies thrive.

Over the years, we’ve used proven and guaranteed Innovation and strategy execution processes to generate tangible business outcomes in 12 weeks ⏱️ for companies including Roche, IBM and many others.

Our services include

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Working with a budget? Let’s talk.

Andrew Constable, MBA

Most companies don’t fail because of poor strategy.

They stall because their internal systems are misaligned.

☑ Strategy says one thing.
☑ Structure supports another.
☑ Culture, leadership, and capabilities aren’t in sync.

↳ The result? Confusion. Friction. Lost momentum.

Michael Beer makes this clear: organisational effectiveness depends on a high-fit system, where every part of your business reinforces the others.

And the fix isn’t a new framework or consultant deck.

It’s open, honest, and public conversations across all levels of the org. That’s how you expose misalignment—and start closing the gap.

Key takeaways for leaders:

1. Alignment isn’t a one-and-done. It’s ongoing.
2. Silence is riskier than candour.
3. Fitness = adaptability. Not perfection.
4. Your employees see the cracks before you do.

Organizational fitness is a moving target—but it’s one worth chasing.

Is your company built to compete?

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Andrew Constable, MBA, Prof M

Strategy fails long before execution.

It fails at posture.

Most organisations don’t have a strategy problem.
They have a strategic posture problem.

Here’s what that actually means:

☑ Strategic posture is your dominant orientation.
↳ Are you aggressive or defensive?
↳ Shaping markets or reacting to them?
↳ Optimising for efficiency or innovation?
↳ Protecting the core or exploring new growth?

It reflects:
↳ Risk appetite
↳ Growth ambition
↳ Competitive intent
↳ Innovation intensity
↳ Resource allocation bias

It’s the umbrella logic behind every " where to play " and " how to win " choice.

And most leaders never make it explicit.

The 4 classic postures (Miles & Snow model):

☑ Prospector
↳ Constant innovation
↳ First-mover behaviour
↳ High risk tolerance
↳ Heavy R&D investment

Example: Tesla in its early EV push.

☑ Defender
↳ Protects core markets
↳ Cost discipline
↳ Operational efficiency
↳ Limited innovation

Example: Ryanair.

☑ Analyzer
↳ Hybrid model
↳ Defends the core
↳ Selectively innovates
↳ Follows proven breakthroughs

Example: Apple.

☑ Reactor
↳ No consistent logic
↳ Strategy by pressure
↳ Internal misalignment

This isn’t a posture.
It’s a warning sign.

Now here’s where most companies get it wrong:

They confuse posture with strategy.

Strategic posture = broad stance.
Strategy = specific choices.

Posture shapes:
☑ Investment decisions
☑ KPI design
☑ Org structure
☑ Talent profile
☑ OKRs

If your KPIs reward Defender behaviour…
But leadership declares a Prospector ambition…

You don’t have a performance issue.

You have structural hypocrisy.

That’s how the strategy–execution gap widens.

Posture must be visible in:

☑ Capital allocation
☑ Leadership behaviour
☑ Performance systems
☑ Capability building

If it’s not embedded in systems,
it’s just rhetoric.

Another lens to think about posture:

☑ Offensive vs Defensive
☑ Growth vs Harvest
☑ Differentiation vs Cost Leadership
☑ Exploration vs Exploitation

At its core:

Strategic posture is your organisation’s attitude toward uncertainty and competition.

Make it explicit.
Align systems to it.
Or accept drift.

Strategy doesn’t fail in PowerPoint.
It fails in posture.

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Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.

Making innovation happen is a tough job! It requires priority, management buy-in, creativity, structure and perseverance.

Do you want to double your innovation effectiveness and create a culture for innovation? Then I can help you for sure.

As an empathic storyteller with 40 years of innovation experience all over the world, I will inspire you with my speeches, workshops and innovation methods, in a practical way, delivering quick wins and changing mindsets leading to long term change in your organisation. 

I am honoured to be chosen by LinkedIn as Influencer, thanking all of my 310.000+ followers. Thinkers360 just awarded me as Number One Global Thought Leader on Design Thinking in 2024. And my book ‘The Innovation Maze’ was crowned as Management Book of the Year.

When you want to spark a culture for innovation in your organisation, I can add value in four ways:

1. As author with 5 innovation books. Check out 'Inspiration for Innovation', 'The Innovation Maze' and my 'classic' on innovation 'The Innovation Expedition', an my innovation bestseller on Amazon.

2. As storyteller with keynote lectures (online). As illustrative storyteller with an informal style, full of insight, humor, and entertainment I inspire leadership teams, innovators and business professionals on innovation and design thinking (see gijsvanwulfen.com).

3. As practical trainer in workshops (online). In 1 -, or 2-day workshops, I train your people in a very practical way how to start innovation and create a culture for innovation within your organisation (see gijsvanwulfen.com).

4. As facilitator with the proven FORTH innovation method. With the structured FORTH methodology I help people in organizations worldwide to jumpstart innovation and create new products, services and business models (see www.forth-innovation.com). Scientific research has proven that FORTH doubles the effectiveness of your innovation process, as 3 out of 4 new business cases get launched.

Call or direct message me when you are looking for a speaker, workshop facilitator to increase your innovation effectiveness at 0030 6985716289 or gijs@forth-innovation.com

Specialties: Innovation. Design Thinking. Ideation. Service Innovation. Innovation management. Innovation Organisation. Innovation culture. Innovation leadership. Concept development. Product innovation. New business development. New Product Development (NPD). Design Thinking. Brainstorming. Innovation seminars, innovation workshops, innovation presentations, innovation key-notes, FORTH innovation method, innovation consulting, innovation training.

Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen

I am honoured to speak at the Saudi Innovation Club | نادي الابتكار السعودي as their first international guest.

Innovators across Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 will gain new insights into how to double their innovation effectiveness using the proven FORTH Innovation Method

I’m looking forward to meeting you in person this Tuesday evening in Riyadh.

#Innovation #CorporateInnovation #InnovationLeadership #SaudiArabia #FORTHInnovationMethod

Award-winning innovation keynote speaker | Founder of the FORTH innovation method | Empowering and training the world’s innovation facilitators

Thank you for your great hospitality at your inspiring innovation centre at SAB, Iffat AlRowaithy. It is indeed the pefect place to introduce the FORTH Innovation Method in arabic. 

I deeply appreciate inviting your innovation network and sharing your wonderful words above about my keynote. I’m truly glad it inspired you and your innochampions to boost innovation results. Let’s work together to double innovation effectiveness in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 in the coming years.

A big hug too for Bassam Albahra for his great enthusiasm, endless energy and full dedication.

Status quo' is Latin for, 'The mess we're in.' [Ronald Reagan] …

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.[Robert C. Gallagher]

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near. [Azim Premji]

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Wearing a traditional Saudi Arabian 🇸🇦 outfit today feels special — not just because of the culture and hospitality, but because of the great conversations I have .

I’m genuinely happy and grateful for the incredible responses to my keynotes here. The energy, the openness to change, and the VISION 2030 ambition to innovate are inspiring.

What I see again and again is this:
Innovation only delivers when it becomes structured, practical, and business-driven.

That’s exactly why I developed the FORTH Innovation Method — to help organisations double their innovation effectiveness by combining design thinking with strong business thinking.

A very special thank you to Bassam Albahra for all your deduction, and to everyone for your hospitality and for sharing insights, challenges, and ambitions with me after the sessions in our private conversations.

#Innovation #FORTHInnovationMethod #InnovationLeadership #KeynoteSpeaker #DesignThinking #BusinessInnovation #InnovationExecution #MiddleEast #InnovationCulture #Leadership #FutureOfWork

I am honoured to be the first international guest of the Saudi Innovation Club | نادي الابتكار السعودي to inspire all innovators in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 how you can double your innovation effectiveness with the proven FORTH Innovation Method. 

Looking forward to meet you in person Tuesday evening in Riyadh.

Saudi Innovation Club | نادي الابتكار السعودي

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