COMMERCIAL
Turn Complexity to Your Advantage
THE PROBLEM
Traditional business education relies nearly exclusively on structured, cause-and-effect, Newtonian logic-based analysis. It approaches problem-solving in terms of a linear process where the success of individual business activities doesn’t result in lasting strategic success.
Traditional leadership skills, all of which were successful in the past, are no longer applicable in today’s interconnected, complex world, where cause-and-effect cannot be clearly discerned, and complex human interactions (individuals, groups, and organizations) result in unintended and unplanned second and third-order effects.
THE SOLUTION
I.D.E.A.L.
ILLUMINATE
Illuminating Ill-Structured, Complex Problems and Challenges.
- Uncover hidden root causes beyond traditional business analysis using our proprietary design thinking-based methodology to frame complex problems.
- Understand complex threat actions, campaigns, and strategies to forecast threat actions and inform friendly counter strategies.
- Leverage artificial intelligence’s structured analytics at scale to “structure the known” and allow leaders to then harness the unique capacity of humans to apply ill-structured analytics and problem-solving.
DESIGN
Designing innovative strategies to overcome complex problems and challenges.
- Solve complex, ill-structured problems using our proprietary design methodology, including strategies, implementation plans (also known as campaign plans), assessment plans, and organizational design.
- Use the ends-ways-means model as the foundation for strategy formulation, where means inform resourcing and authority processes, which, in turn, enable strategy implementation, also known as campaigning.
- Develop multi-year strategies or strategic frameworks and implementation plans with nested assessments, innovation initiatives, and risk mitigation measures as a framework for decision-making at all levels.
EXPERIENCE
Experiencing complexity to test strategies and train leaders and organizations through safe-to-fail complex simulations.
- Validate strategies and implementation plans in safe-to-fail complex simulations and tabletop exercises that match real-world complexity to identify second and third-order effects before real-world execution.
- Understand how complex environments will adapt throughout the cycle of strategy implementation, enhancing the identification of risks, opportunities, and the forecast of future actions and impacts.
- Train leaders and organizations to become comfortable with complexity—including complex environments, complex challenges, and complex friendly organizational interactions.
ADDRESS
Addressing complex challenges by implementing strategies through adaptable and integrated campaigning
- Overcome complex challenges by linking real-time tactical actions employing resources and new processes to achieve desired strategic outcomes to gain and maintain strategic advantage.
- Use the measures of effectiveness and performance together to understand successes, learn from failures, and adapt strategy implementation to the ever-changing, complex environment.
- Use the measures of effectiveness and performance together to understand successes, learn from failures, and adapt strategy implementation to the ever-changing, complex environment.
LEAD
Leading complex teams in complex environments to successfully overcome complex challenges.
- Develop leaders and organizations comfortable with complexity theory and operating in complexity.
- Grow unique leadership skills required to lead complex teams of humans, such as experimentation, true mission command, and comfort with failure, unknowns, and low-data, high-risk environments.
- Use behavioral assessments to understand and optimize team dynamics and opportunities for success.
Commercial Services
Business Analysis
Mapping the business environment, competitors, geopolitical and regulatory threats, and relevant trends to your industry to illuminate the root cause, problems and challenges.
Stakeholder Analysis
Mapping the business environment, competitors, geopolitical and regulatory threats, and relevant trends to your industry to illuminate the root cause, problems and challenges.,
Business Strategy Design
Designing innovative strategies with you, through teaching, coaching, and mentoring, to solve your specific complex business and organizational problems and challenges.
Integrated Strategy Assessment
Adapting to the real-world through integrated assessment plans that allow leaders to make data-driven resource application decisions (means) to achieve the desired outcomes or ends.
Implementation Support
Executing the strategy through actual implementation, where we train, coach, and mentor your team in execution—where the rubber meets the road.
Simulations and Tabletop Exercises
Ensuring successful real-life strategy implementation through tailored, facilitated safe-to-fail events to allow leaders and organizations to experience complexity.
Leadership Coaching
Providing tailored leadership coaching to increase comfort with complexity theory and how it applies to decision-making and leadership in industry.
Team Optimization
Providing leaders with unique insights into their teams’ dynamics using behavioral assessments to optimize the team’s performance to overcome complex challenges.