Continuous strategy mapping & refreshes

Service Description

This service focuses on bringing activities to make strategy a continuous collaborative process. The service is organised around two key activities, which may be combined or deployed independently. Continuous strategic mapping: - This service spots challenges, monitors weak signals and creates serendipitous ideas in the strategy, - We identify diverse teams who will meet fortnightly to discuss strategy. The focus of their discussion may be guided by an ask for research or self-guided by what they feel is important, - Their discussions are live-mapped using Wardley Maps, bringing depth, collaboration and ideas. People do not need a prior understanding of Wardley Maps as they will understand them through practice, - The team periodically summarises its findings, which are presented at strategy refresh events for consideration in deployment and strategic pivots, - We facilitate the cadence of the meetings and support the Live mapping. We also apply mapping patterns to highlight constraints and strategic plays. Strategy refresh events: - We work with you to establish strategy consolidation points in the business (often aligned to teams or business units), - We facilitate strategy refresh events that will review the progress of strategies in play, whether they are delivering to the business case and what to re-prioritise in light of what is emerging from the market and the insight of the continuous mapping, We use the xMatrix for all the teams to capture their strategies and contribute to the joint strategy. Collaboration during strategy refreshes focuses on a joint higher-level xMatrix, ensuring coherence, which the teams can then self-actuate in their respective strategies. We help you develop and facilitate the operating model for continuous strategy, including facilitating continuous mapping, preparing refreshes, running refresh events, and tracking strategic plans. We can also deploy a strategy visualisation tool to offer dashboards ('Obeya') of the overall strategy deployment. Establishing a Continuous Strategy Operating Model is a considerable undertaking requiring multiple progress cycles, and it assumes some crucial prerequisites. We help you start and get on this journey of adaptive organisations. Please book some time to start establishing your journey to the Continuous Strategy Operating Model.