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Roadmapping

IfM approach

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Roadmapping

IfM approach

Consultancy

Courses

Case studies

Resources

Our scalable toolkit platform provides the building blocks to rapidly design and deploy a set of tools for addressing a wide range of strategic planning, technology management and innovation activities. The platform is based on a minimum core set of three tools (roadmaps, portfolio matrices and interlinked grids) with the roadmap as the key tool.

Toolkit platform benefits

Customisable to the different technology strategy issues and their analyses.

Coherent as a common framework is used across the various issues allowing for integration, synchronisation and alignment of the analyses.

Scalable and applicable to both broad and specific analyses and at different organisational levels e.g. technology, product/service/process and business levels, as required for technology strategy.

Toolkit platform benefits

Customisable to the different technology strategy issues and their analyses.

Coherent as a common framework is used across the various issues allowing for integration, synchronisation and alignment of the analyses.

Scalable and applicable to both broad and specific analyses and at different organisational levels e.g. technology, product/service/process and business levels, as required for technology strategy.

THE CORE TOOLS

Roadmaps – used to align and plan, enabling different groups or disciplines to achieve consensus on how best to move forward and realise a vision.

Matrices – used to prioritise and balance, providing focus on specific layers or areas of the roadmap or analysis resulting from the interlinked grid.

Interlinked grids – used to plot and weight. Plotting uncovers relationships, unravels complex interconnections, emphasises interdependencies and highlights gaps or overlaps. Weighting can then be applied to provide contrast and significance to the plots.

STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOLS

We can use this platform to integrate a range of tools and expertise to support decision-making and overall technology management and innovation, including:

Evaluation and selection of technology-based projects

Make or buy (competence assessment)

Uncertainty and risk management

Open innovation

Use multi-factor scoring techniques to prioritise and choose between possible innovation projects.

Make the choice of which technology to develop and work with in-house and similarly where and how to source technology from outside the business.

Risk management tools and frameworks can be integrated with roadmapping to better understand and manage the risks and uncertainties inherent with
technological innovation.

Innovation is an increasingly distributed process, involving networks of geographically dispersed players with a variety of possible and dynamic value chain configurations.

Scenarios

Technology and market intelligence

Trends and drivers analyses

Visualisation

Manage the risks associated with long-term uncertainties, scenario planning provides a structured approach for exploring how possible futures can be considered in strategy today.

Shape intelligence activity, systems functions and processes to keep abreast of the latest technology developments.

Map and analyse external trends and drivers that may pose strategic threats and opportunities for an organisation.

Set strategic direction to mobilise and align thinking and action for innovation, ensuring a common view between commercial and technical perspectives.