HOW DO YOU BUILD LASTING MOMENTUM AROUND YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN?

Launching a strategic plan is one of the most exposed moments in a company’s calendar. It sets the direction, commits the organisation, and signals intent to every stakeholder for years to come.

Unilever, Orange, AXA, Air Liquide, Barclays. Different sectors. Different ambitions. One shared challenge: making a strategic plan land and keeping it alive with employees, investors, and partners over time.

This benchmark examines the editorial and communication frameworks each organisation deployed. Who speaks, when, on which channel, in which format. And what those choices say about strategy itself.

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5 strategies analysed in depth

The full communication sequence for each organisation. Before, during, and after the plan announcement.

50+ pages of operational content

Launches, formats, channels, sequencing: a practical read for communication teams.

20+ examples of innovative content

LinkedIn, C-suite communications, video, corporate newsrooms, podcasts, internal campaigns – what organisations are actually doing.

Challenges

HOW DO YOU BUILD A COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE THAT SUSTAINS A STRATEGIC PLAN OVER TIME?

McKinsey estimates that 70% of strategic plans fail to mobilise teams. The issue is rarely the quality of the plan. It is the ability to make it understood and to maintain momentum across months and years.

This benchmark starts from that observation and works at the operational level: editorial frameworks, formats, sequencing, performance indicators.

In Brief

WHAT’S INSIDE

  • 5 strategic audiences and their associated content journeys
  • Editorial frameworks deployed by 5 major international organisations
  • The formats activated at each stage
  • How to structure communications over time – before launch, at launch, and beyond
  • The role of senior leadership in embodying the plan
  • The metrics to track performance over the long term

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