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Shift Thought helps you manage in the context of complex environments and ecosystems through:

  • Integrating Knowledge, Strategy and Capability
  • Transforming through Change Management, Programme Design and Transition Management
  • Leveraging software through Product and Application Management

Shift Thought develops thinking and solutions directed towards understanding models and strategies, and architecting and deploying solutions in order to exploit the opportunities that complex ecosystems provide.

Integration

Knowledge Integration

Knowledge Integration

Content

  • Technologies and platforms
  • Knowledge integration processes
  • Best Practices
  • Core Taxonomies
  • Quick Start Strategy

Benefits

  • Develop shared and collaborative knowledge asset
  • Shared vocabulary across community
  • Responsive and incremental growth of knowledge

Strategic Development

Strategic Development

Content

  • Business Strategy
  • Process Strategy
  • IT Strategy
  • Product Strategy
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Outsourcing Strategy

Benefits

  • Wide coverage in terms of developing strategy
  • Integrated strategy development process
  • Cohesive and consistent end result

Capability Development

Capability Development

Content

  • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
  • Balanced Scorecards
  • Structural Tension Theories

Benefits

  • Development of internal resources
  • Development of structures, policies and governance
  • Development of processes and metrics

Change

Change Management

Change Management

Content

  • Change Targets
  • Change Goals
  • Strategy for Change
  • Change Structure
  • Change Process
  • Change Evaluation

Benefits

  • Clearly formulated specification and motivation
  • Construction of change capability
  • Full lifecycle management of change
  • Embedding and evaluation of change

Programme Management

Programme Management

Content

  • Problem Definition
  • Goal Definition
  • Outcome Mapping
  • Programme development
  • Project Alignment
  • Programme Direction

Benefits

  • Full lifecycle programme coverage
  • Focused on delivering business outcomes
  • Initiative reuse through project alignment
  • Continuous visibility of risks and benefits

Transition Management

Transition Management

Content

  • Programme management
  • Operations management
  • IT management
  • Sales and Marketing management

Benefits

  • Focused, time-boxed role execution
  • Bounded cost, defined outcomes
  • Knowledge transfer and embedding
  • Seamless induction and hand-offs

Software

Product Management

Product Management

Content

  • Product Positioning
  • Product Lifecycle
  • Application Development Lifecycle

Benefits

  • Building SPM capability
  • Feature Prioritisation Framework
  • Issue Management Framework
  • Product Portfolio Architecture

Application Rationalisation

Application Rationalisation

Content

  • Application Portfolio Analysis
  • Function Distribution Strategy
  • Application Portfolio Strategy

Benefits

  • Building Application Management capability
  • Function Configuration and Distribution
  • Issue Management Framework
  • Application Portfolio Architecture