Why we do what we do

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Some forces are disruptive and drive the need for fundamental change. Other forces are more subtle and drive the need for improvement:

• Exploration, is needed to identify, understand, visualise and re-invent elements of your future business. In the current conditions these focus on ecosystem interactions.
• Exploitation, to identify, understand, visualise and optimise, is focused on the existing business architecture. Often driven by cost cutting initiatives or time to market, CRM but often singularly focused.

Exploration requires a different set of capabilities (human and intrinsic) to exploitation. Exploration requires leaders who accept failure as a necessary step in innovation (fundamental change). Exploitation is managed to avoid failure as it upsets the results that operations are measured against (today) and thus focus is on optimisation (incremental change). 

To support both exploration and exploitation we have defined a lifecycle based business change framework identifying business areas that should be explored or exploited to discover and decide strategic business objectives and the key business capabilities needed to reach the objectives. 

The Circles, Blue, Green and yellow represent:

• Blue; Approach To Explore
• Green; Value exploration (how to; Create, Deliver, Capture and Measure value)
• Yellow; Documenting/Specifying how to execute on the values and what is required.

The Inner Diagram is made up of vertical and horizontal axises. This axis systems splits the business in to 2 sides with 2 quadrants on each side:

• Strategic side
  1. Business / Strategic quadrant
  2. Strategic / Technical quadrant

• Operational side.
  1. Technical / Operational quadrant
  2. Operational / Business quadrant