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Strategic Visioning for Your Organization

An approach to developing a strategic vision for your organization helping lead to sustainable change.

Agree on core values, drivers for change, compelling goals, and aligned action with IfM's Strategic Visioning.

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IfM Strategic Visioning

Who is the solution for and why?

This solution is for senior strategy, innovation, technology and business leaders with responsibility for managing innovation, R&D and/or process/product development, in small, medium and large organizations.

A strategic vision is essential for the future of a business because it reflects its values, purposes, and goals. A strategic vision should be aspirational, ambitious, and achievable. 

A strategic vision combines the best practices of strategic planning, visioning tools, and change management strategies. It brings together key stakeholders to develop a future vision for an organization over a defined period, and enables organizations and groups to agree on drivers for change, compelling goals, and aligned actions. 

An organization accomplishes its mission in order to achieve its vision. A mission statement defines what an organization does and how the organization conducts business. A vision statement is basically the ultimate goal of what the organization would like to accomplish and is more aspirational and forward-facing.

What makes an effective vision statement?

  • Future Focused: Provides the “big picture” and clearly describes what your organization will be like in several years.
  • Directional: Serves as guide to organizational plans and strategies.
  • Specific: Clear to guide decision-making.
  • Relevant and Purpose-Driven: Reflects the company’s response to external factors.
  • Values-Based: Alignment of values inherent within the organization.
  • Challenging: Inspires members of the organization to do great things and strive for higher level results.
  • Unique and Memorable: Highlights what makes the organization different and why it matters.
  • Inspiring: Appealing and engages people to commit to a cause.



 

Why our customers love this approach

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Systemic long-term benefits
Systemic long-term benefits Focusing on improving culture, technology and innovation efforts improves understanding of how to increase innovative capabilities of the business.
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Quick, easy and free
Quick, easy and free A free self assessment for up to 2 people in your organization. Consider the opportunity vs the feasibility of improving elements within your business and its benefits.
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See the big picture
See the big picture Look holistically across the business environment, leadership, practices & processes, and more to reveal your priorities.
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Tried and tested
Tried and tested Developed with support from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), and tested by a number of research groups and outside organizations.

7 steps to get started

Welcome to your Strategic Vision, powered by SharpCloud

1
Define Strategic Priorities

Your organization's Strategic Priorities should be already known and relayed to be entered into SharpCloud pre-workshop.

2
Create Driver Statements

Write at least one Driver Statement per Driver Category. A well-structured and precise Driver Statement should be written in two parts: 1) Observation 2) Consequence.

3
Organize Driver Statements by Strategic Priority

Systematically categorize and arrange driver statements based on their alignment with strategic priorities.

4
Vote on Driver Statements

Use the voting Form to vote on the most important Driver Statements for your strategic vision.

5
Define a Vision Statement for each Strategic Priority

From the weighted Driver Statements connected to each Strategic Priority, write a Vision Statement that accounts for the relative importance of each Driver Statement.

6
Vote on Vision Statements

Use the voting widget within the panels of each Vision Statement to vote on how important they are to your strategic vision.

7
Write your integrated Vision Statement

From the weighted Vision Statements, write one Strategic Vision that accounts for the relative importance of each Vision Statement.

Talk to us to find out more

IfM are dedicated to ensuring your Strategic Visioning is successful and is implemented seamlessly. As part of the University of Cambridge, we bring world-leading approaches, tools and insights to solve our clients’ complex challenges. If you encounter any issues, please get in-touch with the IfM team for their expert guidance and support.

Get in touch

For more information on how IfM approaches and frameworks can be applied on the SharpCloud platform, please contact John Saiz, Industrial Associate at IfM Engage.

John, former Chief Technology Officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center, leads collaborations with manufacturing and technology-intensive companies worldwide to enhance their innovation capabilities.

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IfM Engage Services

For more information on IfM Engage services, including case studies, webinars, and insights into how IfM approaches support organisations across industry, government, and academia, visit the IfM Engage website.

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