All Systems Go!Your plan was overturned. Now what?
A new technology, a new competitor, or a new rule changed the ground under your plan. We help you see what changed, weigh the options and write the strategy that fits the market as it is now.
Four things we deliver
Future scenarios
Plausible futures for your market, built from interviews and evidence, with the causal chains that connect them.
Strategic options
The real choices on the table, with what each one demands and what it gives up.
A strategy brief
One document that states where you are going, why, and what happens first.
Strategy skills for your team
Workshops that teach your people to think, plan and present strategically.
Clarity you can hand to someone else
Sense made of the chaos
The forces acting on your market, sorted into what matters and what does not.
A clear path forward
A direction chosen from real options, with the first moves named.
A document in hand
A strategy brief your leadership, board, and teams can read and act on.
The people who call us
Head of Product or Product Strategy Lead
A technology shift has overturned the plan, and the roadmap no longer matches the market.
Strategy and Transformation Lead
Leadership needs one shared view of what changed before committing to a direction.
Head of Market Strategy
A product has to be repositioned while the category around it is being redefined.
Business and technical leaders
Technical teams and business leaders need to agree on a shared direction.
Part expert consulting, part facilitation.
A handful of expert calls and a handful of workshops, shaped around the people who own the decision.
The Microsoft future series
Seventeen papers over 22 months, each one a scenario-based look at an industry's future. The concept and outline of every paper came from us. These eight carry our credit.
A new vision of cybersecurity
Identity, trust, and the shape of the threat
The future banking ecosystem
Banks as platforms in a network of partners
Refactoring manufacturing
Production rebuilt around the customer order
Charting the course
Navigating a market that reshapes itself
Resourcefulness reimagined
D365 for the digital organization
Customer experience orchestration
The experience imperative
Building on brilliance
Where product cycles shrink to days
The future banking workforce
Work, workers, and the ecosystem model
Published in 2017 and 2018
Remote and gig work
"Software developers, risk analysts, or equity researchers ... just as effective on a beach in Bali as in an office on Wall Street." Employees become multitenant, "something akin to a gig economy".
The future banking workforce, 2018Personalization at mass-production cost
Stores that produce on-demand personalized products, with supply chains rebuilt around the individual order.
Charting the course, 2017 / Refactoring manufacturing, 2017Product cycles measured in days
Time to market trending to zero as the build, test and launch loop collapses.
Building on brilliance, 2018Identity from behavior
A fourth identity component joins what you know, have, and are: what a person does.
A new vision of cybersecurity, 2017Chatbots handling routine requests
"Day-to-day client requests that previously required an individual to process them will soon be handled by chatbots in the cloud."
The future banking workforce, 2018Where strategy changed the plan
Tell us what you're facing.
A short conversation is enough to see whether strategy, a roadmap, or a sprint is the right place to start.
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