Visioning and Futuring
WHAT VALUE DO WE CREATE?
Organizations that can clearly see their potential futures show greater success, adapt more readily to changing environments, and create the futures they strive toward.
WHO NEEDS THIS SERVICE?
Simply, every organization! In an era of rapid, discontinuous change, smart leaders know that they need to keep their organizations focused on spotting future possibilities. Thinking strategically about this helps organizations understand the various future-oriented time horizons in which strategy can unfold, continually scan the environment for signals of change and new ideas, and adapt to these changes in the external environment.
WHAT DO WE DO?
The team members at Sierra Learning Solutions are experts at helping organizations envision the future and create changes in the present to best reach the destinations they desire.
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Expeditionary Strategy CraftingApplying design thinking to strategy crafting brings new tools to a critical organizational need and requires four stages in the design process. These distinct but highly interdependent stages provide a sound foundation for a large variety of possible planning tools and experiences. Often lasting three to twelve months or more, what results is a clear roadmap for implementation and a fully engaged organization.
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Problem-Based DesignWhen a clear, or even hazy, problem is the center of the task at hand, we employ our six-stage innovation approach that includes collaborative design; discovery and assessment; divergent thinking and ideation; convergent planning, selecting; prototyping; and implementation, tracking, and adjusting course.
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Traditional Strategic PlanningWe customize solutions to meet each client’s needs by drawing on proven approaches from long-range scenario planning, to action planning, to designing competitive advantage.