STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
Designing Resilient Ecosystems for the AI Age
Strategy isn’t a static document—it is a dynamic system. Our Innovation Strategy Sprint is a high-intensity, 3-5 day engagement designed to help your leadership team move beyond “business as usual” and design a future-ready innovation ecosystem.
The Challenge
Organisations often fail not because they are doing the wrong things, but because they are doing the right things for too long—failing to adapt as the industry value landscape shifts. We help you navigate the “Exploit vs. Explore” tension, ensuring you maximise current profitability while aggressively de-risking future growth.
AI-Augmented Innovation: Human Insight, Machine Speed
We don’t use AI to replace the innovator; we use it to optimise the entire business design process. By leveraging Generative AI and LLMs, we compress months of work into days:
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Systems Understanding: Rapidly mapping complex market ecosystems and identifying hidden leverage points.
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Problem Exploration: Using AI-driven consumer research and synthetic users to validate meaningful problems before building solutions.
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Synthesis & Ideation: Leveraging tools like Gemini and GPT for prompt-driven ideation to diverge thinking far beyond standard brainstorming.
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Rapid Validation: Using AI for automated analysis of user reviews and sentiment to converge on the most viable value propositions.
Who It’s For
This sprint is designed for leadership teams and forward-thinking organisations that recognise the “Ecosystems and AI Age” requires a shift in how value is created. It is specifically for:
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Executive Leadership & Boards: Teams needing to solve the “Innovator’s Dilemma” by balancing the protection of core revenue (“Exploit”) with the aggressive pursuit of new growth (“Explore”).
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Strategic Growth & Innovation Leads: Professionals tasked with moving beyond simple ideation toward the actual commercialisation of ideas.
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Transformation Officers: Those responsible for shifting organisational culture and building the “6 Innovator’s Mindset Traits”—Curiosity, Growth Mindset, Adaptability, Challenger Spirit, Resilience, and Creativity.
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Cross-Functional Product Teams: Groups that need to move from “design science” to “ecosystem-centric” thinking to avoid industry disruption
How Does it Work?
We use a high-velocity, 3-5 day framework—the same methodology used in our Executive Management Programme (EMP) Innovation Strategy & Growth—to move from system complexity to strategic clarity.
STRATEGY SPRINT FOCUS
Step 1: System Mapping & Landscape Analysis (Diverge)
- We begin by mapping your current ecosystem. We leverage AI to rapidly synthesise market data, identify industry value shifts, and pinpoint where your current business model is vulnerable to “Incumbent Inertia”
Step 2: Problem Exploration & AI-Augmented Research
- Before building solutions, we validate the problem. We use tools like Synthetic Users and Userdoc AI to create buyer personas and journey maps, ensuring we are solving “meaningful problems” rather than just chasing novel ideas.
Step 3: Strategic Value Alignment
- Using our 130+ Value Types Canvas, we analyse the value your business currently delivers across People, Planet, Profit, and Progress.
- We then identify the specific value gaps you must bridge to remain resilient in the future
Step 4: Portfolio & Initiative Design (Converge)
- We help you select the right “Innovation Initiatives” to drive change.
- This includes deciding between Internal Accelerators, Innovation Labs, Strategic Partnerships, or Venture Funds to protect against disruption
Step 5: Governance & "Dual-Mode" Integration
- Strategy is useless without a system to execute it.
- We help you design a Dual-Mode Innovation Structure, integrating “Explore” and “Exploit” project funnels into your quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and OKRs to ensure long-term manageable growth.
Case Example
Our methodology is grounded in the same frameworks delivered to global leaders through the Executive Management Programme (EMP) Strategy & Growth
- Curriculum-Led Strategy: We leverage the EMP “Accelerating Profitable, Manageable Growth” syllabus, covering Innovation Tactics, Culture Readiness, and Risk Management.
- Mindset Transformation: We assess and build the “6 Innovator’s Mindset Traits”—Curiosity, Growth Mindset, Adaptability, Challenger Spirit, Resilience, and Creativity.
- Dual-Mode Infrastructure: Just as taught in the EMP, we help you implement a “Dual-Mode” structure to manage both Explore and Exploit project funnels via OKRs and Agile processes.
COMMON STRATEGY CHALLENGES
Changing appetite for risk
We already have experience in lean business and innovation approaches:
- How should we explore more risky organizational structures to support sustainable business innovation that delivers real impact?
Delivering on actionable strategy
We’ve made the C-level strategic shift in corporate strategy towards sustainable business impact:
- But where do we go from here and how do we make it actionable with impactful results?
No incrementalism or innovation theatre
We already have a lot of experience running Design Thinking and Design Sprints and Lean Startup approaches. However, we end up with incremental projects that go nowhere.
- How do we ensure we’re not doing innovation theatre and create measurable sustainable business impact?
Exploring new organizational structures
We’re happy to explore separate organizational entities to build sustainable business opportunities:
- But we’re not sure how they should be structured, executed, governed to assess value impact over time.
What You’ll Achieve
Equip your leadership with a validated roadmap of high-impact initiatives and the ‘Dual-Mode’ governance structures required to commercialize innovation at the speed of AI.
- A Defined Innovation Portfolio: A clear mix of core, adjacent, and disruptive initiatives—from Innovation Labs to Strategic Partnerships.
- Validated Value Propositions: Use of the 130+ Value Types Canvas to ensure your future offerings deliver across People, Planet, Profit, and Progress.
- AI Integration Roadmap: A practical plan for how your team can use AI tools to accelerate their own innovation workflows.
- Governance & Culture: A readiness assessment and structural plan to ensure your organisation can actually implement and commercialise ideas.
CLIENT EXPERIENCES
Our team has worked with the World’s largest organizations
Collaborate Remotely
No problem. We can guide and facilitate our programs fully hybrid or in person using some great tools to get the job done. Reach out to learn more.
Discuss Your Strategy Sprint
NAVIGATE THE FUTURE OF YOUR ECOSYSTEM
Book a call to discuss how to implement a Dual-Mode Innovation Structure that protects your core business while aggressively exploring new value in the AI and Ecosystems Age.
