Perspective · Board and PMO

See where your strategy lands

You see where your strategy lands and where it quietly seeps away.

In short

With SPARKs, the TATIN Institute for Strategy Activation translates a company’s strategic priorities into short team routines within the existing regular team meeting. There, each team solves a real operational issue in a way that contributes to the strategy. From week 4, the board and PMO see in the Executive Dashboard where execution is holding up and where it is stalling, aggregated and anonymous.

Your leaders work on their most pressing operational issues, in sales, HR or controlling. Every solution contributes to your strategic priorities. This way, the strategy is executed through day-to-day business instead of competing with it for attention.

What do you see from week 4, and what do you decide?

You see

Two priorities compete for the same resources in many teams.
Alignment loops and approvals pile up at one interface.
One division is falling behind the others in execution.

You decide

Sharpen, postpone or drop a priority.
Clarify responsibilities and shorten approval paths.
Provide targeted support before it shows up in the KPIs.

How does your strategy reach every team?

Your prioritiesare translated into tailored SPARK questions.
Every teamworks on them for around 20 minutes in the regular team meeting, typically every two weeks.
Action with ownershipwithin the team’s own sphere of influence, with a binding timeline and impact check.
Patterns across all teamsreveal what repeatedly slows things down.
Executive Dashboardaggregated from five leaders upwards, live from week 4.

What’s in it for you?

Focus on what mattersEvery team regularly makes a concrete decision aligned with your priorities.

Early warning signalsPriority conflicts, friction at interfaces and overload become visible before they show up in the KPIs.

Reach without a cascadeAll teams, all locations, in person, online and hybrid. No trainers or offsites.

Impact measuredActions are tracked through to results. You don’t need a separate evaluation.

PlannableThree phases with clearly defined packages at a fixed fee. After each phase you decide on the next step based on measured impact.

GDPR-compliantAnonymous by design. No assessment of individuals.

What role does AI play, and how is the data protected?

The AI is a tool, not a decision-maker. It makes visible what people are thinking within a team and across many teams. What follows from that is decided by people.

The AI takes care of

Clustering anonymous contributions into topics
Showing patterns that recur across many teams
Documentation, follow-up and impact measurement

The team keeps

Which topic gets put on the table
What the patterns mean
Which action is taken and who owns it
Whether it worked

Contributions are anonymous. Names only appear where an action is given an owner, and only within the team itself. Analysis is exclusively aggregated across at least five leaders, at department or division level, never for individual teams. Precisely because nobody is being monitored, the data is honest. On request, we will present the system to your works council before the project starts.

How do SPARKs differ from classic approaches?

Kick-off, workshops, coaching

Time required: extra meetings and offsites
Reach: top management and pilot groups
After three months: day-to-day business has won
Measurement: manual or at extra cost
Ownership: ends with the consultant

SPARKs

Time required: around 20 minutes in the regular team meeting
Reach: all teams, digitally scalable
After three months: the rhythm keeps going
Measurement: automatic, in real time
Ownership: stays within the company

Steering from the top and improvement from below combine for maximum impact.