The Rapid Strategy Toolkit
Traditional approaches to strategic thinking (and the business plans that are produced) are failing to meet your pressing and immediate needs. How do you engage your people and create confidence amongst your fellow leaders and supporters when the methods you’ve historically relied on are no longer working effectively?
This workshop not only introduces you to a way of thinking, it helps you understand and apply methods and approaches to bring a sense of purpose to your strategic thinking and execution.
The lean start-up methodology has made the process of starting a company less risky. Those same approaches are now extensively used in mature companies to re-imagine and re-work their approach.
Lean start-ups favour experimentation over-elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. They think about the “minimum viable product” and “pivoting” and all of these ideas can be adopted and applied by leaders and managers in more mature companies to bring focus and energy to the growth of their business.
Who should attend this workshop?
This workshop is aimed at business owners, leaders and managers with responsibilities for creating and executing strategies.
Please note that this workshop is open to trading SMEs based in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Businesses located outside of this area will be unable to attend and instead directed to alternative support.
What will be covered?
In the workshop participants will:
- Explore the lean start-up approach
- Learn about value propositions and how to create a Value Proposition Canvas for your own business
- Learn about business models and how to create a Business Model Canvas for your own business
- Learn how to design experiments to validate thinking and test hypotheses
What outcomes can you expect from joining the workshop?
After attending this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify elements of your strategic thinking to revisit using lean start-up approaches
- Create your own Value Proposition Canvas
- Identify where you are making assumptions in your value proposition thinking
- Create your own Business Model canvas
- Identify where you are making assumptions in your business model thinking
- Design experiments to validate your thinking and test your hypotheses
- Create a plan to work through all activities over time
This workshop is hosted by the D2N2 Growth Hub, East Midlands Chamber and part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
