Strategic Business Case and Roadmap Planning

The ‘Opportunity’ Problem

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You and your teams have finite resources.  Investment and resource focus needs prioritisation.  Where will growth come from and how do we ensure we are maximising our potential to get the growth and returns we need to take our business forward.

A clear business case and plan is something that has the potential to drive every business forward, building the strongest possible view of the opportunity ahead and how to execute. 

Leadership teams however need to ensure that their teams are maximising their potential for success by creating the business case and plan that is founded on clear hypotheses and a line of sight to getting to market with a minimum viable product allowing the company to gain invaluable market feedback and learnings on the whole solution that needs to be iterated and developed as rapidly as possible to capitalise on the opportunity..

Based on over 20 years of hands on technology product and proposition leadership, we help businesses to build innovative and scalable whole solutions and propositions.

Our Strategic Roadmap Planning Framework offers companies independent, data centric support in identifying opportunities the ‘whole solution’ path to getting to market, building the customer voice into your MVP and ensuring the right information flows back into all stakeholder groups to rapidly iterate and evolve the end to end proposition to meet the demands and opportunities in the market.

Key Benefits

  • An independent & objective assessment of the current planning and business case development processes

  • Recommended changes in market evaluation, design centric solution design, customer and prospect feedback loops, prototype and market testing

  • Strategic and tactical plans to support your business in building effective and integrated idea to invoice flows

How it Works

  • Review and assessment of the current market sensing, voice of the customer & business case development and prioritisation processes

  • Organisational capability assessment – identifying challenges in prioritisation, role definition and information flows impeding the teams’ ability to hear and react to market needs and feedback in a structured and integrated approach

  • Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data sources to support strategic business case development and roadmap development

Service Deliverables

  • Strategic Roadmap Framework defined and tailored for your organisations’ specific needs

  • Recommendations on market sensing flows, improving voice of the customer inputs to strategic planning and prioritisation

  • OKR and Product Metrics Development to maximise early indicators of trajectory and improved ability to predict & plan vs react and fix