Workshops Packed with Action Learning

Alignment between different business entities and constructs is a must to ensure a successful strategy journey. We will apply alignment techniques and how to deploy them across the strategy journey. 

It is critical to develop a 360 mindset when formulating your strategy. We study the formulation process – its inputs, mechanics and outputs. 

Now there is a strategy developed, the next step is reflect on communication and missing no one to ensure the right strategy support. What follows is the right implementation of cascading it through the organization network. 

Throughout the strategy journey, we will emphasize tools for every day use with C-level, middle managers, teams, partners and other stakeholders. Upgrading our thinking skills is a non-negotiable outcome with Strategy Platforms. 

The Future of Strategy is the cherry on the top in this workshop. We imagine different futures of strategy, its process, its implications and even its customers. 

If a strategy is formulated or a transformation is targeted, now what? Enter business architecture with all its concepts and tools to create the glue that holds technology, processes, organizations and information together in one coherent system. 

BMs are critical to define architecture – their structure, impact and utility. We will experience how they are connected to strategy, business architecture and orgnaizational structure. 

BA cannot be addressed without full understanding of capabilities, their mapping and applications to achieve strategic objectives. Capability gap analysis and roadmapping are addressed in details. 

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a world class framework that helps business architects realize their mission during change or transformation projects.  

The deliverables of this workshop are artifacts of business architecture. While we move from one step to another, we will be getting closer to defining our target business architecture. 

After this workout, you will be comfortable with building the entire capability model. This visual representation shows functions, outcomes, behaviours and activities required to carry out business operations. 

We circle back to business architecture and launch the alignment process with strategy, operating and business models,  so that the intended projects or change are more setup for success. 

Benchmarking is one important approach to improvement. We will apply methods to measure your capabilities and understand where you are compared to business needs. 

Executing your strategy requires roadmapping of your capabilities and full visualization on what capabilities need deployment by when aligned with other business architecture components. 

In this project, we will generate the full capabilities artifact required for the right strategic goals. You can then deploy this transferrable skill of capability building to your own organization. 

At this stage, we go through different organization structures to set the stage for systems mindset to analyze and interact with organizations, roles and capabilities. 

We move from the stiff org chart diagrams to understand how interactions between organizations can be represented and how systems thinking will help us reshape these dynamics. 

We see challenges through different lenses now. We utilize different systems thinking frameworks to rethinking challenges and how to resolve them. 

We look at change differently – from a systemic and sustainable perspective. The workshop focuses on how we can implant mechanism that give early warning signals and propose correction mechanisms. 

Systems thinking is a dynamic company capability. We build together the list of how to get there and how to install this capability in your organization. 

Deep dive into complexity concepts and science cannot be missed when addressing leadership challenges and opportunities. We deliver a practical 360 view of complexity and its implications. 

The core of the workshop will provide a framework for contemporary leadership skills needed, beyond the basic and archaic models of leadership that were defined for a world that does not exist anymore. 

The role of leaders in driving the specific competitive advantage of innovation cannot be missed in our framework. We explore the different options available for leaders to institutionalize innovation at their organizations. 

Leaders build futures. Without the capability to imagine possible futures, understand the vocabulary of the future, the will face stonewalls. We train leaders on how to communicate the future to their followers. 

Throughout the workshop we will be running leadership assessment in parallel. This includes outputs from case studies to be put into an action plan. 

Following the global framework of five transformation domains, we present an example of how to address digital transformation impact. Cases from multiple industries will be presented. 

Technology is a key transformation enabler. Different tools and applications are analyzed – we focus on how such platforms impact the transformation domains. 

Technology foresight is one of the inputs into the digital transformation journey. We zoom in on how technology roadmapping is utilized in transformational projects. 

Digital strategy is a subset of the overall business strategy. By analyzing different digital strategy to understand the principles that govern robust digital strategies and their connection to the business, and its architecture. 

The ALP will guide the learning journey of digital trasnformation. From principles to strategy formulation to roadmapping, we will simulate an entire transformation process.