Agile Sprints for Strategic Growth

  • Start Date:
    Held monthly
  • Duration:
    3-6 days
  • Delivery:
    Online
  • Subsidised Fees:
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The Agile Sprints for Strategic Growth programme is designed to be run alongside your normal business operations. It is aligned to your risk appetite with a heavy emphasis on the risk / reward balance of outcomes and is designed to deliver tangible results that are strategically enhancing and capital accretive.

These growth sprints will help your internal and external customer propositions.

They will create competitive advantage.

They will provide you a new perspective on the organisational environment, and new ways to explore areas of focus and the ability to execute on same.

You will achieve real outcomes quickly. The expectation is that you will be willing to engage and be open to achieve these ends.  It will complement business-as-usual and it will require effort, but not too much.

In summary, if you are ambitious for your business, then these programmes could be the right fit for you.

Each sprint session is a masterclass that develops and tests the projects from inception to the target outcome (ranging from prototype, pilot, operational system etc). A significant component is the integrated mentoring, which supports and challenges each team as they progress on the journey. Throughout the course of the sprint sessions, the participants will accumulate tools and processes that are repeatable and will accumulate in a personalised toolkit.

 

Sprint 1 Summary

This sprint addresses 3 main questions.

> Is your organisation set up to address change effectively?

> Do you want to benchmark and evidence your innovation / change readiness?

> Do you want a transformation roadmap to help your organisation deliver better results?

 

This proposal will help your customers by setting up your organisation to more effectively meet new and emerging customer needs. It creates competitive advantage by delivering a clear picture of an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, in line with ISO standards.

What happens if we do nothing?

The “do nothing” fallacy risks not being fully aware of organisational shortcomings, platform gaps, stakeholder engagement weaknesses which may hamper or result in fewer new initiatives.

 

Takeaway & Outcomes

Sprint 1  provides structure, clarity and high-quality debate on strategy and organisational capability for innovation and change. It aligns with ISO 56002, and delivers a detailed time bound roadmap with tangible priorities.

 

Timeline

Day 1 – One-to-one structured interviews and research Customer Discovery.

Day 2 – Workshops to develop strategy and capability roadmap.

Day 3 – Comprehensive Report / Roadmap Completion and Presentation to the Leadership team for approval and actioning of strategic outcomes.

 

Sprint 2 Summary

This sprint addresses 3 main questions.

> Do you want to get better at selecting, prioritizing, and testing new ideas?

> Do you have a consistent methodology for managing disruption?

> Are you using tools to scope and shape new initiatives?

 

This proposal will help your customers by assisting to choose and define the right areas of focus and right engagement model with customers. It will create competitive advantage by enabling the organization to create a portfolio of the best fit customer opportunities. The sprint will provide you a new perspective on the organisational environment and new ways to explore new areas of focus and the ability to execute on same.

 

Takeaway & Outcomes

Identifies and prioritises opportunities and challenges.

Validates and tests feasibility.

Delivers the methodology to evaluate business model and digital disruption.

Defines the v1 project scope for each initiative.

 

Timeline

Sprint 2 – Typical Format of Days – (Varies depending on the company’s own starting point – may involve 1-to-1 and/or group activities)

Day 1 – Review thematic areas and apply screening methodologies to identify candidate opportunity and challenges.  Evaluate the change and stakeholder environment.

Day 2 – Workshops to evaluate the DFC, VP, BMC.

Day 3 – Finalising the v1 project scope for the top initiatives.

N.B: you can have a small or large group in Sprint 2.

 

Sprint 3 Summary

This sprint addresses 3 main questions.

> Do you want to execute change and innovation projects effectively?

> Do you want to develop people, processes, and tools to deliver better outcomes?

> Do you want a robust pipeline of new products and services?

 

This proposal will help your customers by delivering proven concepts and /or new products and services to external and internal customers. It creates competitive advantage by generating revenue from new products and services and differentiates talent through their ability to use the latest tools and processes. What happens if we do nothing? Fewer new successful products and services – this sprint focuses on delivery / execution of prioritized opportunities.

 

Takeaway & Outcomes

Provides workshop discipline to execute innovation and change projects.

Aligns talent, develops skills, uses latest innovation processes and tools.

Delivers proven concepts that can be scaled and measured.

 

Timeline

Day 1 – Focus on the challenge.

Day 2 – Explore the options/data.

Day 3 – Prototyping possibilities.

Day 4 – Build framework / possibilities.

Day 5 – Pilot with the target audience.

Day 6 – Scale considerations.