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Future vision, disruptive innovation mindset, agile licence to think

The Intricacies of our methodology

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Management teams must urgently align on the pace and extent of external changes affecting their organizations, understand the resulting impact, and prioritise innovative strategies for resilience. Disruptive Mindset process encompasses three stages: future-proofing strategy for leadership and innovation teams, an igniting innovation workshop and an accelerating change phase:

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Future-proofing strategy through the eyes of the senior management

This involves framing the challenges and setting the course:

1. Understanding who you are and who you could be:

Define organisational identity, assessing mission, values and distinctive capabilities.

2. Envisioning the future paradigm's impact:

Forecast the future landscape. Anticipate industry shifts and their effects on your business.

3. Identifying areas of vulnerability and opportunity:

Stress-test revenue streams against future scenarios and assess how well the organisation's capabilities equip it for success.
Set objectives and innovation priorities.
Establish criteria for selecting an Innovation team.

Outcomes:

Agreement on short, medium, and long-term business prospects.
Identify critical areas for focus and innovation.
Establish the process for team selection.

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Future-proofing strategy, with the innovation team, from a bottom-up perspective

This involves clarifying project objectives and parameters, engaging the team, aligning views, and gathering perspectives:

1. Understanding who you are and who you could be:

Deepen understanding of organizational identity, mission, values, distinctive capabilities, agility, and opportunities for change from an operational point of view.

2. Envisioning the future paradigm's impact:

Forecast the future landscape. Anticipate industry shifts and their effects on your business.

3. Identifying areas of vulnerability and opportunity:

Validate the senior management stress-test.
Ensure the company's unique capabilities equip it for the future by identifying key success factors and focusing on areas crucial for igniting innovation.

4. Debrief senior management team.

Outcomes:

Highlight new focus areas and gaps between senior and operational management.
Senior management decide whether to alter or add areas for innovation.

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Igniting innovation and seeing things from new angles

This involves: idea generation, design thinking and prioritisation with the innovation team:

1. Leading innovation workshops fuelled by Responsive Strategic Play to reimagine new product, service and business model solutions:

Inspire creativity through open discussion, storytelling, and free-flowing exploration to generate new innovative ideas for products, services, and business models.
Use a blend of techniques to refine and prioritise ideas effectively.

2. Debrief to senior management team:

Present ideas to senior management and select initial idea.
Agree to the agile development plan and budget.

Outcomes:

Whilst revolutionary ideas can never be guaranteed, our goal is to help your teams instill products, services, and business models with distinctive features and imagine brand new opportunities.
Showcase positioning boards of the most promising concepts.
Present an indicative roadmap for derivative, platform and breakthrough innovation.
This roadmap would form the basis of the accelerating change phase.

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Accelerating change and preparing for decision making

This involves using a mix of methods to gauge user interest in new ideas:

1. Selecting the best the innovative concepts and business models from the Ignite Innovation workshop, assess market opportunity and reduce the risk inherent in launching new concepts:

Web test new concepts.
Fast prototype and measure interest and market demand.
Conduct an accelerating change conversation to hone strategic platforms, value chains, and go-to-market options.
Prepare a stop, go or pivot decision making session.
Accompany innovation team in managing an agile NPD process.
Outline further recommendations to achieve increased agility.

2. Debrief senior management team

Outcomes:

Present strategic platforms and stop, go or pivot recommendations.

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