When we approach a consultation, we act as facilitators. Ultimately this is your design. It can, and will, be everything you want it to be. it’s important that you and your fellow stakeholders play an active role in the process.

I’ve been spending a lot of time speaking with clients and partners over the last few months. With so much disruption in the market, i’ve made it my mission to reach out and seek as many perspectives on this unique time as possible.

Hybrid and Distributed Teams are a probability for most organizations. We’ve developed a simple checklist to help ensure you’re ready for Hybrid teams and the Future of Work.

Experiential design flips this around with a focus on the “experience” the stakeholders would like to achieve at the end of the project. When we focus on the experience, this stimulates important conversations and drives important decisions.

The second phase in our proven process is the concept development phase. In this phase we will hold one or more meetings to present our initial concept to the stakeholder group. In the initial Stakeholder Engagement meeting, we collect information about your business and your needs. In the second phase, we convert those needs into an experiential concept - i.e. how will you interact with these systems. By starting with the experiential design, we aim to focus the attention on the user, and not the technology. This is essential to driving project success.m

The Stakeholder Engagement meeting is an important first step in project success and in finding alignment around function, budget, and schedule. In the Stakeholder Engagement meeting, we will conduct a structured conversation that will aim to understand the needs and wants of each stakeholder in the group.

Selecting your stakeholder group is essential to achieving the best results from our Forte process. Effective communications within your team, with your clients, and in the boardroom are of strategic importance to your company. The stakeholder group will represent the various stakeholders within this project and are essential to our goal of achieving alignment behind function, budget, and schedule.

When done well, distributed work allows a business to be more nimble, more resilient, improve productivity, and reduce costs, without anyone feeling “remote”. The reality is that most successful global companies are already practicing distributed work without even realizing it.

This post asks business leadership questions that you might not yet have considered as you make the transition to remote work.

Will your business be able to survive a second lock down? Will the next lock down be the same as the last?

In the last week, with strict Covid-19 restrictions in place, and lots of communication with business leaders in my network I’ve noticed a few trends.

Purpose, People, Risk, Reward, Rollout.

Have you taken the time to consider how all of these will be affected by your remote work strategy?