Strategy Sprint
In less than a week, our customizable strategy sprint will help you develop an action plan for growth alongside key decision-makers in your organization.
What is a Strategy Sprint?
A Strategy Sprint offers a fast and thorough way to envision and plan for the future, with a solid strategy.
Working alongside key stakeholders at your organization and our innovation strategy experts, you’ll set the right priorities, create innovation metrics to track your progress and build a clear action plan that everyone’s on board with.
Why use a Strategy Sprint?
A Strategy Sprint makes sense particularly if you want to solve a complex business problem that costs you money every day it goes unsolved.
A Strategy Sprint can help you to get a clear plan of action to achieve a long-term goal.
And it can do that without the endless meetings, failed hires, and without wasting time and money.
If you have a complex business problem, then you've probably already tried a lot of different options.
A Strategy Sprint can work for companies of any size, as long as they have an established customer and revenue base.
CALL THE SHOT
The strategy sprint is no workshop or brainstorming; its goal is to make decisions. That means that you need people on board who are authorized to call the shots. C-level buy-in is a crucial and indispensable part of the strategy sprint. If the decisions you take at the end of the week still need to pass the board of the management committee before they can be executed, don’t bother.
SET CLEAR KPIs
Measure the impact of your innovation strategy as you roll it out and pivot if needed. Set KPIs to demonstrate the effectiveness of your investment at quarterly reviews.
SIMPLIFY YOUR PLAN
Produce a clear innovation strategy that’s easily understood by people at all levels of your organization.
DEVELOP AN ACTION PLAN IN JUST A FEW DAYS
Map out how you’ll achieve your business goals, from the initiatives you’ll run, to the budget, and the governance model.
GET BUY-IN FROM STAKEHOLDERS
Bring the CEO, innovation manager, and R&D lead together to quickly make decisions you’re all on board with.
CUSTOMIZE THE AGENDA
Adjust the agenda to suit your needs and ensure it tackles your key challenges. Every organization is unique, as is each iteration of this program.
What does a Strategy Sprint look like?
The strategy sprint is an intense week in which the stakeholder team breaks out of its core activities and takes time to build an innovation roadmap that is ready for execution.
DAY 1-4
Discovery and Development
DAY 5
Actionable Strategy
Every Strategy Sprint ends with a validated and actionable strategy on the fifth day ready for implementation.
A Strategy Sprint produces results within a week.
The sprint consists of an iterative execution of 5 simple elements:
Day 1: Discover the status quo: just like in sports, before a sprint everyone should be well prepared. All warmed up, ready to go.
Day 2: Define your innovation mission: in this phase, the team agrees on specific goals that the innovation strategy aims to achieve.
Day 3: Design your innovation blueprint: how to reach the goals?
Day 4: Decide with key stakeholders: in this phase, the board narrows down and agrees on one specific blueprint.
Day 5: Deliver the strategy: the blueprint is put into a roadmap and is validated.
The strategy sprint is not a one-off: it can be repeated from time to time to revise the plan and make adjustments on the way.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,