Discovery Sprints - What If We...
The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Discovery Sprints Mission: To build out scenarios and backcast to action, surfacing outlooks and unlocking breakthroughs.
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Formats: Scenario Planning, Opportunity Assessment, Rapid Exploratory, Lead or Edge User Co-Creation, Open Crowd Challenges
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Defined: Tapping into deep wells of strategic foresight, futures thinking, open collaboration and experimental research, Discovery Sprints open the curtain to a better future, incorporating workshop facilitation, rapid exploratory participation & development and open forums to capture and catalyze imaginations. The intent of these sprints are to unearth strategic issues of importance to the firm, derive relevant future scenarios of possibility and create new prototype-able solutions to the various uncertainties presented.
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The Cygnus Difference:
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Speed & Urgency - researchers can sometimes take months to just get sensors in field, we do it in three months or less
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Platforms - access to platforms where we can host research, collaborative development & open challenges
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The Lead 10% - when you want to see new possibility, it helps to tap the opinion of pioneers and early adopters ahead of the curve
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Doubles, Triples and Home Runs - able to look at different ambitions, scopes and time spans of change
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Implications w/ Evidence - combines the strength of actions, loosened constraints and supporting plausibility
Options: Add as a follow up to Strategy & Innovation Sprints, create reputation-driving, content marketing from conclusions
SCENARIO PLANNING
Build a more robust future and have confidence in your path having considered all potential paths. Plot out the potential trajectories and actions for dealing with your biggest uncertainties and risks on projects, strategies, teams or organizations..
OPPORTUNITY
ASSESSMENT
Evaluate a potential venture before it's an official project, Take a second look before more investment happens. An opportunity assessment can ensure that you have considered and estimated the angles ahead of big commitments.
RAPID EXPLORATORY
Exploratory testing encourages evaluative thinking in real time. Speed is critical to today's business but sometimes you need to step back even as things are being built and designed. and estimate the thinkable, consider the unthinkable, surface the edges and get mission critical feedback before things roll to press.
LEAD/EDGE USER CO-CREATION
A business, product, design, experience or intelligence discovery sprint, where input from customers, users or experts (particularly early or advanced ones).plays a central role in development from beginning to end.
OPEN CROWD CHALLENGES
Invite interested participants into your circle. Plan and match resourceful people and talented partners with nagging questions and untapped opportunities. Advance issues that organizations grapple with and build medium- to long-term solutions with cross-industry expertise. and diverse perspectives.
CYGNUS SPRINTS
Cygnus Sprints is your leading on-demand management consulting, strategic advisory and change navigation group designed for your complex and sped-up world.
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Faster. Better. On-Demand.
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Get your Marco Polo, Shakleton and Lewis & Clark in motion, set your compass to a Cygnus Discovery Sprint
A perplexing challenge? A tough to solve for problem? A need for partnered help? An objective viewpoint needed? A quick gutcheck required? A need to consider the range of options ahead of us? A stress test required?