Who is the solution for and why?
This solution is designed for senior leaders in strategy, innovation, technology, and business - particularly those responsible for managing innovation, R&D, and product or process development within organizations of all sizes.

Agile and iterative approach for strategy and planning.

Flexible and adaptable to fit the needs of any business, organization or sector.

The latest research combined with human expertise and thinking.

Consensus-building approach to decision-making for key stakeholders to action workshop outputs.

Visual outputs enable easy to understand and effective communication of strategic intent.

Alignment of commercial and technical strategy.
Activities and steps to get started
Exercise administrators will begin by customizing the Project Selection Tool, selecting 3 - 5 opportunity and feasibility factors from the provided options and tailoring them as needed. They will then establish scaling statements with assigned scores for each factor, and define a showstopper condition that overrides all scoring. You are then ready to enter all projects into the scoring tool on Step 1.
The first step of the process is to enter all projects into the scoring tool. Use the Smart Form in SharpCloud to provide a comprehensive brief of each project.
The instructor must select up to 20 voters and assign them a number between 1 and 20. Voters names can be displayed in step 4.
The exercise administrator(s) will prescribe Screening Criteria corresponding to the minimum threshold for a project to satisfy each metric and be considered for voting. Compare the project brief information to the screening criteria and reject any project below any screening threshold.
Each reviewer will navigate to their personal voting table to provide a score from 0-12 per project for each selected factor. Reviewers may add comments or assumptions to any project that they review.
The group will review the aggregated and individual opportunity and feasibility scores per project. Optionally, reviewers may choose to edit their scoring based on the group discussion.
The group will review the Opportunity x Feasibility matrix to select or reject all projects. Projects are mapped by their average opportunity and feasibility scores:
The group will discuss and assign next steps and important actions to take post-workshop.
Talk to us to find out more
This solution is based on latest research and practice activities at the IfM, part of the University of Cambridge. The combination of the highest quality research, alongside expert application and delivery, sets the IfM approach apart from other roadmapping methods and practitioners. These templates have been designed and are supported by expert practitioners from IfM Engage, the knowledge transfer arm of the IfM.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.
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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