Ecosystem Strategy Sprint
Start the ecosystem strategy sprint
The strategy sprint is perfect for business leaders and their teams to build the foundation for ecosystem success. Over 3-6 months, we will analyze the ecosystem environment, evaluate strategic positioning moves, define the ecosystem strategy and design use cases.
Strategy Sprint timeframe
Your 3 month strategy sprint.
Phase 1: Explore
The exploration phase is all about aligning the leadership and teams with their goals and roles and understanding your company's current ecosystem situation.
- Alignment with leadership and team to set the right expectations and goals
- Alignment with leadership and team to clarify roles, responsibilities, project sponsors, resources and helpful data and knowledge sources
- Setup of project management infrastructures like scheduling and meeting tools
- Kick-off workshop to review company status quo, trends, competitors/ecosystem players and customers
- The Ecosystemizer tools - Part 1: Ecosystem Strategy Map, Offering Matrix
Phase 2: Elaborate
During the elaboration phase, teams will go through several workshops to define ecosystem strategy and positioning options and then ideate within this scope to develop business use cases on current and future customer needs.
- Positioning workshop to develop hypotheses for strategic ecosystem positioning
- The Ecosystemizer tools - Part 2: Standard Ecosystem Strategies, Stakeholder Sheet, Ecosystem Canvas
- Ecosystem creator workshops to ideate use cases and identify potential partners and other ecosystem requirements
Phase 3: Evolve
The evolution phase helps define business use case specification and budget requirements. In addition, ecosystem strategy and positioning, prioritizing initiatives, roadmap, and resource planning decisions are all made.
- Closing workshop to define objectives and evaluate use cases
- The final decisions for target positioning
- Planning of resources, roadmap and next steps
- Preparing for implementation
Your outcome
- Alignment of the management team
- Definition of ecosystem strategy and positioning
- Development of ecosystem skills
- Definition of ecosystem initiatives and budget requirements
- Clear priorities and next steps for implementation
Kind words from our clients
In the course of a sprint program lasting several weeks on the strategic ecosystem positioning of Consorsbank, led by Prof. Dr. Kawohl and Prof. Borchers, very good results were achieved. Some measures were implemented directly, others are flowing into our current planning process. The Ecosystemizer methodology and the concepts behind it have proven to be very intuitively applicable for the teams involved. They will continue to be used in the follow-up of the project for the design of the ecosystem initiatives.
Dr. Sven Deglow
In the course of a sprint program lasting several weeks on the strategic ecosystem positioning of Consorsbank, led by Prof. Dr. Kawohl and Prof. Borchers, very good results were achieved. Some measures were implemented directly, others are flowing into our current planning process. The Ecosystemizer methodology and the concepts behind it have proven to be very intuitively applicable for the teams involved. They will continue to be used in the follow-up of the project for the design of the ecosystem initiatives.