20+ workshops for your organization, team and personal development.
Just two days of workshops, is what Bas needed to change the way we approach new business. Remarkably intelligent and adaptive to the individual needs of our company. It went above and beyond expectations.
Diana Lynch ~ CEO Kirinari Community Services
Design Thinking
Duration: 1 Day (extended version 2 Days)
This workshop focusses on understanding and applying the Design Thinking methodology to customer-centric projects in your organization.
Lean Startup Methodology
Duration: 1 Day (Extended version 2 Days)
This workshop has you explore the efficiency and ease with which correct use of this method for project management can enhance and further benefit the outcomes of your project, team communication, and direction.
Overcoming Innovation Blockers
Duration: 1 day
In this workshop, you will come to understand how to overcome common challenges in innovation. We’ll deep dive into blockers regarding ways of work, ease of decision making, adhering to deadlines, proper planing and structuring innovation.
Finding use cases for new technology
Duration: 1 Day
Do you just know that a new technology would have great potential for your organisation, but you just can’t seem to find a proper business case for adoption of the technology? In this workshop, we’ll make sure that, if there is a viable use case, we will find it.
Kick-off a project or initiative
Duration: 1/2 Day
There is arguably nothing more important than kicking-off a new project properly, with all key stakeholders aligned on goals and outcomes of a project and communicating this in a deployable manner to participants. This workshop will make sure you’ll communicate everything you need in a way it’s set-up for success.
Understand your customer
Duration: 1 Day
If you do not understand your customer, their needs, emotions, purchasing decisions and influencers, your chances of long-term success of your product or service diminishing significantly. In this workshop, you will immerse yourself into the mind of your target group, to truly understand who you are designing for.
Determine your Minimum Viable Product
Duration: 1 Day (Can be extended to two days)
Start small, think big, scale fast. It is essential to understand and define the moment your product or service becomes viable. That is, when it turns a net. profit. Which are the elements essential in your product, you need to design for first. As important, which elements are nice-to-haves, which you should not start developing until later in the product lifetime. In this workshop you will be confronted with the financial reality of your project, and how to make it reality as fast and efficient as possible.
In the extended version, we will build a roadmap, to transition your product or service back into BAU.
Assessing threats and opportunities in market disruption
Duration: 1 Day (Modifiable to 1/2 Day)
To disrupt or to be disrupted, that’s the question. You want to become, be and stay the best in your industry or niche. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are at constant risk of disruption. This workshop is aimed to assuring that your organisation or team understands and identifies all treats of disruption. We will start reframing these treats as opportunities for your organisation. In this intense workshop, we will assure you understand, define and assess treats and opportunities coming your way and make a plan for how to manage them.
Engaging partners in your project
Duration: 1 Day
To be truly effective in developing your new product or service, it’s crucial to engage partners in completion and execution in the right way, and at the right time. Innovation happens at intersections. In this workshop, you and/or your team will work with a strategic partner on progressing your initiative and assess opportunities that lie at the intersection of industries.
Brainstorm new solutions for your organization
Duration: 1 Day (Modifiable to 1/2 Day)
You know you have a problem worth solving for. How to progress in a creative, yet structured manner, to assess what is the best solution for this problem. In this workshop, everything is on the table. Gradually, we will start assessing the viability, desirability and feasibility of the solutions.
Business Model Comparison
Duration: 1/2 Day
In this workshop, we’ll assess and compare various business models. whether on a lean or a business model canvas, and the end you will have a clear view which concepts and elements of your product or service to prioritise over others, before getting ready for prototyping.
Competitor Deep-Dive
Duration: 1 Day (Modifiable to 1/2 Day)
By means of easy to use tools and techniques, in this workshop you and your team will get a clear understanding of the competitive landscape, and get clarity on your actual position in the market.
Getting Forward Momentum & Closure
Duration: 1/2 Day
Completed a project? How to move this forward and assure it will be taken up in the business? Properly closing a project and getting clear next steps is crucial to success. The final mile is the hardest to deliver. Make sure you do it well by making this workshop part of your roadmap.
Assess Desirability, Viability and Feasibility
Duration: 1 Day
This workshop guides you towards prioritizing the right solution to test first and align your team on an agreed upon way forward. We’ll assess which solution best resonates with a customer. If it’s technically possible and financially responsible.
Compile a Strong Business Case
Duration: 2 Days (Modifiable to 1 Day)
A comprehensive and detailed business plan is often required to acquire large investments in a corporate environment. In this workshop, you’ll get a clear understanding of exactly
- What needs to be included in your plan to ease decision making and secure the funding.
- How to best present your information in an easy, digestible, yet comprehensive manner.
Considering to Build, Borrow or Buy
Duration: 1 Day (Modifiable to 1/2 Day)
There are multiple ways to develop an idea. How to move forward is one of the most important decisions you’ll make about your project. The obvious one is to build it yourself. Often, ‘borrowing capacity and resources needed to develop a product or simply buying a similar product for your own use, can be as effective or even better. What is the responsible thing to do? Find out in this workshop.
Properly framing the problem
Duration: 1 Day
Most successful companies and people spend most time investigating which problem they are solving for. By truly and deeply understanding the problem you need to solve for, the eventual solution becomes of higher quality, easier to implement and more sustainable. Leaving egos out of the room, focussing on the presented fact and deriving the most accurate answers to your questions is key in this workshop. At the end, you’ll understand what it is you are solving for.
Identify Benefits, Baggage and Constraints
Duration: 1 Day
Setting up a new project within the constraints and limitations of a business can be very delicate. This workshop will help you to negotiate the optimal degree of separation between your project and the core “business-as-usual” activities of your company.
Optimize your growth process
Duration: 2 Days (Modifiable to 1 Day)
As an organization grows, the conditions and requirements for continuous growth change. This workshop helps you set up a scalable and repeatable process for continuous experimentation and improvement of your core growth metrics.
Prototyping
Duration: 1 Day
Prototyping takes many shapes and forms, at various levels of precision. Whether you are developing an app, a physical product, a service or a new process or concept, rapid prototyping can be to deciding factor in how well you are able to adjust your idea, share it with your stakeholders and get valuable feedback. In this workshop, we’ll find out the best, cheapest and most efficient way for you to build a prototype.
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