Faced with multiple disruptive threats, new product innovation group was challenged with strategic alignment and execution support for transformational new growth opportunities.
We helped facilitate the development of a vision and operational processes for development of new lines of business and new business models. The process included a portfolio and stage gated investment approach to new opportunities and precise methodology for strategy development, analysis, and governance. Provided training on creating and managing platform strategies with virtuous feedback loops and coached on application to their strategies.
Client wanted to integrate more innovation, business and strategy skills into technical leadership development to improve cross-functional team collaboration and identify new process & product innovation opportunities.
We developed a tailored Innovation Methodology & Tools, and Innovation Leadership training workshop followed by applied training to leadership sponsored challenges over 10 weeks with bi-weekly progress and coaching.
Client anted to provide senior technical and business leaders with leadership and strategic skills development opportunity while addressing specific strategic issues the organization was facing.
BRI facilitated a five-week active learning and strategy development program with one week of immersive applied methods and best practices training to establish vision and strategy option hypotheses followed by four part-time weeks of rapid iteration of evaluation and evidence gathering culminating in real actionable proposals for presentation to executive management.
This client had a strong historic focus on pure technology research and development. As they were shifting to more commercial focus, they needed help developing a long-term business strategy, with specific emphasis on how to stage their strategy in a way that would enabling them to build a Platform Strategy that would generate leverage from ecosystem partners and build sustainable entry barriers for competing technologies.
We provided training on Platform Strategy fundamental and the key differences in the operational best practices for Platform vs. Product Strategies. We helped them identify where in their technology stack they could eventually build Platform interfaces and what implications that would have on their products scope and roadmap. We developed a short, medium, and long-term business strategy & incremental investment approach for key risks. We also provided guidance on business leadership org. plan and staffing criteria.
The client had an established corporate innovation program in place for several years but was struggling with hand-off from early-stage concept development & validation to scaled commercial operation in business units.
We did a 1-day workshop with key stakeholders where we diagnosed the issues and shared model for company fit alignment assessment (understand why it’s challenging) and best practices to mitigate followed by collaborative framing of alternative organization and governance model for this stage of the innovation life cycle.
Client wanted to improve innovation skills for technical individual contributors and 1st line managers globally to help better align technology development with real business impact.
We developed and delivered an action-based training program starting with a live Innovation methodology, tools, & best practices training workshop followed by applied training where each cohort worked on real, leadership sponsored challenges over 100 days with intermediate coaching sessions. At the end, the project teams delivered to decision makers, comprehensive project proposals for investment.
