StarCore Nuclear
How StarCore Nuclear introduced helium-cooled Small Modular Reactor technology through Powering Together, an award-winning documentary and communications platform built on transparency, respect, and shared opportunity.
HCP turns research and insight into clear direction. For four decades, boards, executives, and public agencies have relied on HCP for strategic planning that defines priorities, identifies tradeoffs and creates a clear path forward.
Trends are temporary. Platforms come and go. Insight endures. Good strategy identifies the patterns, risks and opportunities that matter, then turns that understanding into clear choices.
That is the discipline of this strategy consulting firm. HCP helps leadership define priorities, make choices, align the organization and establish how progress will be measured. Strategy creates the direction. Marketing carries it forward. That order has not changed since 1986.
Much of that direction is brand strategy consulting. Positioning, brand architecture, and naming define what an organization stands for and help every part of it communicate with greater consistency. Leaders hire a brand strategy consultant to establish a position that is clear, meaningful and distinct. HCP brings the discipline to carry that position throughout the organization.
Strategic planning consulting services, engaged as a full planning process or as counsel on a specific decision facing leadership.
Multi year plans built with leadership and stakeholders, written so the objectives can actually be measured against something.
Board retreats, leadership sessions and stakeholder workshops facilitated by someone with no internal stake in the outcome.
Where the organization sits in its market, what it claims, and the language everyone uses to say it the same way. The core of brand strategy.
How a portfolio of services, divisions or acquired companies relates under one parent, and what each part is called.
A clear read on who else is in the room, what they own, and where the open ground actually is.
Internal communications strategy and change communications, so the people responsible for the plan understand it, support it, and can put it into practice.
Ongoing strategic counsel for executives who need an experienced perspective in the room, not another vendor.
Plans built before the crisis, and counsel during it. Seven years of standing crisis planning for the largest Florida Port Authority.
Stakeholder engagement, grassroots strategy and public affairs counsel for organizations operating in front of a public body.
An evaluation of what the organization is saying, where it is investing, and what it is getting in return.
Assessment of an existing plan against its objectives, commitments, and results.
Sequenced objectives with owners, timelines and the measures that decide whether it worked.
The current plan, the analytics, the spend and prior results are reviewed before anyone proposes anything new.
Board members, executives, staff, and stakeholders are heard individually. What leadership believes and what the organization experiences are not always the same thing.
We put the tradeoffs on the table and make the group choose. A plan that avoids the hard choice is not a plan.
The result is a plan leadership can put to work, with clear ownership, measures and accountability so progress can be tracked over time.
A selection from four decades of strategic planning, positioning and counsel across public, private and nonprofit organizations.
Grassroots and public affairs strategy across a national firm of more than 650 attorneys in 16 offices.
Seven years designing, implementing and maintaining a crisis communications plan and a proactive public relations strategy.
A 12 month strategy bringing separate practices under a parent brand, with speaking, tradeshow and content sequencing.
A strong market position turned into a three year strategy with accountability built in.
A comprehensive strategic plan built with new leadership and district stakeholders, grounded in original resident and worker research.
A strategic planning process evaluating brand awareness and setting the objectives to grow tourism over the following decade.
A strategic planning framework facilitated for the organization and adopted with County Administration.
Assessment of the prior plan, review of internal analytics, board and executive interviews, and facilitated strategic workshop sessions.
A seat on the C level management team, facilitating evaluation of business targets and market potential.
Counsel to destination leadership on restructuring the county film incentive program, and tourism strategy through the pandemic.
Branding and positioning recommendations extrapolated from the client’s own organizational planning work.
Interviews with board members, students, alumni, university staff and credit union staff before any long term strategy was proposed.
Leadership stakeholder sessions with the head of school, staff, board, admissions and development before positioning work began.
A full research study across high end and staple retail chains, used to set the market strategy that followed.
How StarCore Nuclear introduced helium-cooled Small Modular Reactor technology through Powering Together, an award-winning documentary and communications platform built on transparency, respect, and shared opportunity.
How the Hillsborough County Hotel & Lodging Association turned a strong market position into a three-year strategy with accountability built in.
How Source 1 Solutions aligned its brand, communications and marketing behind a five-year plan to grow from a midmarket technology company into a global enterprise.
Each discipline builds on the one before it. Research establishes what is true. Strategy determines what to do. Marketing puts that thinking to work.
Establish what is true.
Determine what to do.
Put the thinking to work.
Tell us what leadership is weighing. We’ll start by understanding the decision, what’s at stake and what information is already available. From there, we can determine whether the right next step is research, facilitated planning, strategic counsel or something else entirely.
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