Apply Strategic Foresight to Enable IT-Led Growth
Be the disruptor, not the disrupted.
Onsite Workshop
Applying strategic foresight will help you overcome the following challenges:
- Rapid technological innovation that disrupts the organization’s business model and leaves little time to react.
- Larger, less agile organizations struggling to reallocate resources sunk into existing operations to accommodate shifting priorities.
- The need to establish a structured approach to innovation management that considers external trends as well as internal processes.
- Showing the CEO how an investment in IT innovation results in revenue growth by identifying the right opportunities.
Strategic foresight will help you:
- Become the disruptor, not the disrupted. Info-Tech’s methodology helps you plan proactively and identify opportunities early.
- Effectively process the signals in your environment, build an understanding of relevant trends, and turn this understanding into action.
- Be more proactive about technological innovation, and in doing so, become more competitive.
Module 1: Pre-workshop – Gather Signals and Build a Repository
The Purpose
- Gather relevant signals that will inform your organization about what is happening in the external competitive environment.
Note: this is preparation for the workshop and is not offered onsite.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A better understanding of the competitive landscape.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Gather relevant signals. |
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| 1.2 | Store signals in a repository for quick and easy recall during the workshop. |
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Module 2: Identify Trends and Uncover Drivers
The Purpose
- Uncover trends in your environment and assess their potential impact.
- Determine the causal forces behind relevant trends to inform strategic decisions.
Key Benefits Achieved
- An understanding of the underlying causal forces that are influencing a trend that is affecting your organization.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Cluster signals into trends. |
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| 2.2 | Analyze trend impact and select a key trend. |
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| 2.3 | Perform causal analysis. |
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| 2.4 | Select drivers. |
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Module 3: Build Scenarios and Ideate
The Purpose
- Leverage your understanding of trends and drivers to build plausible scenarios and apply them as a canvas for ideation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A set of potential responses or reactions to trends that are affecting your organization.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Build scenarios. |
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| 3.2 | Brainstorm potential strategic initiatives (ideation). |
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Module 4: Apply Wind Tunneling and Select Ideas
The Purpose
- Assess the various ideas based on which are most likely to succeed in the face of uncertainty.
Key Benefits Achieved
- An idea that you have tested in terms of risk and uncertainty.
- An idea that can be developed and pitched to the business or stored for later use.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Assign probabilities to scenarios. |
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| 4.2 | Apply wind tunneling. |
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| 4.3 | Select ideas. |
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| 4.4 | Discuss next steps and prototyping. |
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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