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1.2.3. Sprint!

1.2.3. Sprint!

The 1.2.3. Sprint! service brings focus, sense of urgency, and momentum. It aims to deliver top performance and sustainable growth in one hundred days.

1.2.3. Sprint! Services | Idilia Consulting
1.2.3. Sprint! Services | Idilia Consulting

Program

The Next Level Service 1.2.3. Sprint! guides clients in three agile spring phases through our journey and delivers inspiring, purposeful, and actionable competitive strategies, top performance and sustainable growth while building capabilities for competitive advantage.

Sprint 1 Deliverables

  • Strategic Goals and Objectives.

  • Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values.
  • Shared Vision and Aligned Objectives.
  • Competitive Analysis.
  • Health Check and Deficiencies.
  • Market Insights and Trends.
  • Actionable Competitive Strategies.

Sprint 2  Deliverables

  • Capability Development Plans.
  • Ecosystem Development Plans.
  • Talent Management Plans.
  • Risk Management Plans / Scenarios.
  • Business Strategy Mapping.
  • Profitable Growth Plans.
  • Innovation and Change Portfolios.

Sprint 3 Deliverables

  • Concepts / Value Creation Plans.
  • Communication Plans.
  • Operational and Functional Plans.
  • Corporate Alignment.
  • Sustainable Growth Awareness.
  • Performance Improvement.
  • Profitable Growth.

Activities

Our 1.2.3. Sprint! service comprises the following activities:

1.  Set competitive strategies that drive performance and growth.

2. Define project portfolios that achieve strategic goals.

3. Transform firms into top performers, fit for the future:

  • Optimize key business processes.
  • Align corporate structure and business processes.
  • Foment an innovation, learning, and growth culture.
  • Bolster (agile) project management and team building skills.
  • Strengthen performance and growth leadership capabilities.
  • Spearhead sustainable growth (mindset) change.

Key Deliverables

1.2.3. Sprint!

Actionable Competitive Strategies

Yes

Innovation and Change Portfolios

Yes

Performance Improvement

Yes

Sustainable Growth

Advanced

>35%

Improved Business Processes

Intermediate

Enhanced Corporate Structure

Basic

Learning & Growth Culture

Basic

Superior Leadership Capabilities

Intermediate

Detailed Program Description

The three program phases are all intense (i.e., 100% support) agile sprints that include all building block activities (not to be confused with the services) denoted by their number 1, 2 or 3 at the bottom row in the above figure. After every phase, the strategic plans are (re)evaluated until they sufficiently integrate the possibilities of technology, the requirements for business success, and the needs of people. This results in desirable product (goods and services) innovations and engaging change measures that drive performance and growth. The first phase takes 5 weeks with 200 hours of our support and delivers inspiring, purposeful, and actionable competitive strategies. The second phase takes 5 weeks with 200 hours of our support and delivers engaging and realistic innovation and change project portfolios. The third phase takes 6 weeks with 240 hours of our support and delivers top performance and sustainable growth.

The last phase ends with a four-week period to finalize project implementations, monitor performance and growth objectives, and evaluate the capabilities to be further strengthened for competitive advantage.

Duration and Support

The program lasts approximately 16 weeks and requires 640 hours (100%) of our support to maintain focus, sense of urgency and momentum. Selected leaders will need to spend 640 hours to build on the firm's capabilities for competitive advantage.

Costs, Benefits and Risks

The 1.2.3.Sprint! service aims to deliver top performance and sustainable growth in one hundred days by bringing focus, sense of urgency, and momentum. We make the competitive strategies inspiring, purposeful, and actionable by following the design thinking principles in our journey through a top-down and bottom-up approach with an intense agile sprint that synergizes the bundled building block activities.. Similarly, we make the innovation and change portfolios engaging and realistic using this approach. The 1.2.3. All-in service follows the program phases of a traditional top-down strategic process and, consequently, does not synergize the activities. This yields a longer lead time, higher service costs, and more management time of the selected leaders in the program than in the 1.2.3. Sprint! service. The 1.2.3. Sprint! service reduces the lead time for delivery as compared to 1.2.3. All-in by 43% from 28 to 16 weeks (without slack time). The time needed for support reduces by 33% from 960 hours to 640 hours, which makes the 1.2.3. Sprint! service intense (no idle time) but very cost-effective. The top-down and bottom-up approach aims to deliver desirable product innovations and engaging change measures that drive performance and growth and repair the high failure rate (between 70% and 90%) of traditionally managed innovation and change programs. The costs of this approach are 640 hours of support and an equal amount of management time from the selected leaders in the program, who gain in return superior leadership capabilities to drive performance and sustainable growth. The risk of any agile sprint is, however, scope creep which makes the achievement of the strategic goals in the 1.2.3. Sprint! service less solid than in the 1.2.3. All-in service.

Requests

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We are happy to clarify our principles, approach, journey, deliverables, as well as our services to you in more detail.

Please send us a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for standard guidance on all our predefined  services.

Please send us a Request for Proposal (RFP) in case you expect to need specialist support to evaluate deliverables (e.g., market research), or foresee the need for extra support to implement vast innovation and change project portfolios.

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We will be delighted to serve and help you deliver top performance and sustainable growth while improving your capabilities for competitive advantage.