Awareness deep dive

Awareness is the first step in getting set up for success. Here we are conducting workshops, having conversations and doing analyses that provide the following target outcomes:

• An executive review and endorsement of the current business strategy that answers three questions: 1) What is our winning aspiration, 2) Where will we play, and 3) How will we win?
• A shared understanding of the business drivers for change/merger/acquisition
• The specific business objectives that will need to be achieved in order to realize the vision
• A succinct vision statement that communicates what, why and why now
• A clear sense of urgency for the change, i.e. what might happen if we don't act now
• A shared understanding of the organization's current strengths, challenges, capabilities, risks, business environment and technology stack
• A high-level view of the current decision model, i.e. who makes what decisions, when do they do it and with what information
• A schematic operating model that illustrates how value flows through the system
• An initial gap analysis between the desired future state and the current state, potential impacts, costs and timing
• A defined appetite for change and awareness of the fit between appetite for change and the expected impacts, costs and risks 

• Organization system design
• Prosci ADKAR
• Kotter's 8 steps
• Decision analysis
• Lewin's model of change
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Hambrick-Fredrickson Strategy Diamond
• Open Space Technology
• Human Systems Dynamics
• Value-driven risk analysis
• Business architecture
• People Capability Maturity Model
• Learning organization principles
• Product management principles

• Force-field analysis
• Value  and capability chain mapping
• Social network analysis
• Efficiency-effectiveness matrix
• Analytic Hierarchy Process
• Key personnel interviews
• Brainstorming
• Influence mapping
• Business model canvas
• Objectives & Key Results
• Stakeholder mapping and analysis
• Organization learning disabilities
• SWOT
• Tornado diagrams
• Customer journey mapping

A list of typical training classes that I typically conduct at this stage:

• Leading change (executives & senior leaders)
• Leading change (team)
• Strategic planning
• Basic organization system design
• Change management fundamentals
• Change communication
• Agile methods and business agility
• Product management principles