Create a Vision for the Future
Growth is always hard, but in times of change and uncertainty even successful organizations and companies can face steep obstacles to achieving it. Trusted business models run out of steam. Organizations that were once good at doing what made them successful face the “innovator’s dilemma” – and become victims of their own success. Traditional approaches to growth strategy often look to the past to predict the future. They are facing the wrong way. At Kali Group we believe that when you take a “future back” approach to setting your growth strategy, you can build new paths to growth that have not yet been imagined. By creating a vision of the future, we work with you and your team to align on this shared vision of who you will become, where to play, and how to win.
Specifically, we help organizations and businesses to:
Identify and pursue game-changing ideas and initiatives to accelerate growth
Develop a shared view of future aspirations, and a detailed plan for how to achieve them
Understand fast-moving and disruptive trends and the implications for your business or organization
Identify high-potential growth opportunities in adjacent and “white space” markets
Organizing to realize new opportunities. We help to design a portfolio of approaches to build organizational momentum for success. We help you:
Prioritize customer and stakeholder-driven opportunities
Blueprint new program and business models
Create and implement performance metrics and other systems to pursue the new and different
Develop plans to learn for new organizational program and business launches
Our approach is highly collaborative, driven by Kali Group’s values, with a focus on having real and lasting impact on your business and organization.
DEVELOP INNOVATION CAPABILITIES
For organizations just starting to build an innovation capability, or looking to bring more discipline to ad hoc efforts, a lean and mean approach can generate quick wins and lay the groundwork for broader change. Our “minimum viable strategic innovation system” (MVSIS) approach helps organizations put into place the essential building blocks that will allow them to begin creating a reliable, strategically focused innovation function. The MVSIS concept is inspired by the world of lean start-ups, where a “minimum viable product” allows entrepreneurs to design and launch new concepts and gain insights quickly. An MVSIS enables companies to ensure that good ideas are identified, prioritized, resourced, developed, rewarded, and celebrated. The payoff is often profound. We work with companies across a range of industries to create innovation systems in as little as 90 days by:
Determining the gap between growth goals and current operations
Creating distinct core and new-growth innovation efforts
Identifying priority areas to explore that align with what customers need and you can deliver
Creating a small, dedicated innovation team and embedding with the team on its first set of projects
Ensuring the right mechanisms and leadership are in place to accelerate good ideas
To exercise these capabilities, Kali Group often works with clients to launch a demonstration project. This involves selecting from a portfolio of proposals a concept that can lead to a quick win. Such demonstrations serve as a powerful proof point to the rest of the organization.