Advisory

Most of our engagements start with this. A shock & awe workshop balanced with agitation and provocation designed to inspire action and raise leaders out of the trenches. We explore patterns of disruption; why most organizations miss it; the deceptive curve of disappointment.

We also spend a chunk of time exploring how to respond to the ever increasing pace of change, and importantly, what not to do.

We tailor the key messages for boards, executives or wider leadership groups.

A combination of all of our services to help support your acceleration into the Future, where we will engage our wide network of Thought Leaders and Subject Matter Experts to drive your Organization's Transformation.  

Sometimes you have someone already accountable for transformation but need to amplify their efforts with on-demand executive-level expertise. That is what this service is for.

It can be a lifesaver to have an un-biased person that has been down these tricky paths to rely on. We offer our insight, frameworks and approaches. When you need it we will also get our hands dirty; our only agenda is your success.

We’ve blended more traditional approaches to strategy from the big consulting firms with ExO approaches into a unique paper-light and momentum-heavy playbook.

Almost entirely workshop-based, we start with purpose as the north star to explore ‘where to play’ using market attractiveness and competitive advantage to prioritize markets. Next in ‘how to play’ we hypothesize about what it will take to win in the future and therefore the capabilities to be built now.

Finally, we define ‘what to do’ in a simple portfolio of initiatives/OKRs with a single point of accountability and clear metrics.

70% of transformation efforts fail each year - this is nearly $1Tn wasted every year!

Our approach to transformation is in coordination with OpenExo and was developed to address this failure rate. It deals with the corporate immune system, has an explicit growth ambition, and expects the rate of change in the environment to be dynamic.

Most importantly, this is an internally driven process powered by small autonomous cross-functional teams of people from right through the organization. We act as coaches and guides, not consultants.

We have created and deployed corporate venture capital funds and brokered countless other partnerships with early-stage companies.

We deeply understand how to navigate the inherent tensions between new ventures and corporates.

Our approach was developed to specifically enable startup agility and space for learning/failure while also creating discipline, transparency and structure required by corporate parents.