ADAPT
Strategic Agility:
Innovation &
Lean Startup
Methodology
In today's dynamic and hyper-competitive environment, organizations can't afford to have their employees stuck in a tactical mindset. At every level, employees must understand the perishable nature of value and how it is created and captured, analyze different courses of action, and move with greater speed and agility in execution. In short, we have entered an era in which all employees must develop the skills to create and maintain competitive advantage.
Strategic Agility Framework
Learning Objectives
Apply the 5-step ADAPT Cycle and tools in your current role to increase your strategic agility and accelerate the creation of value in the organization.
Audience
​​Managers and individual contributors at all levels, including both intact and cross-functional teams.
Delivery Options
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One-day course delivered on-site
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Customized virtual delivery
Agenda
WORKSHOP
TIMING
​​What's Strategic Agility?
• Strategy as the deliberate reduction of alternatives
• Strategy meet reality
• Deliberate vs. emergent strategy
• Execution vs. Innovation
• The perishable nature of value
• De-constructing a value proposition
​​Step 1: Analyze
• Explanatory vs. exploratory inquiry
• The group think danger zone
• Three categories of adaptive challenge
• Inflections points
• The cost/value matrix
• Innovation & recombination
• Incremental & derivative vs. radical & disruptive innovation
• The consequence map
Step 2: Decide
• The VCTR model of decision making
• Path dependence
• Decision traps
• Trade-off discipline
​​Step 3: Align
• The danger of being mostly aligned
• The 5 alignment questions
Step 4: Prototype
• The hypothesis & the prototype
• Performance criteria & goals
• Minimum viable product
​​Step 5: Test
• Overcoming status quo bias & loss aversion
• The question funnel
• Iteration & accelerated learning
• Gathering local knowledge
• Grit & failing forward
3-3-3 Plan
FINISH
Sample Content
Materials (Participants receive)
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Smart Card deck of key concepts, tools
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90-Day post-workshop drip-feed of development resources
Pricing
Pricing is based on a per participant license plus training facilitation