Components of Adaptive-Management
Strategic Business Development
- Business Model definition and clarification
- Strategic Opportunity identification and assessment
- Creating sustainable advantages from business and technology inflections
Product Life Cycle Management
- A 7 stage, "template-lite" process model, focuses on the most important aspects
- A single financial metric: Return on Product Development Expense - RoPDE™
- Easily adopted, non-intrusive, highly collaborative, in-line work products
- Employs Atlassian Confluence for developing and managing the deliverables.
- Employs Atlassian Jira for project cost tracking
Systematic go-to market tracking of RoPDE
- Sales stage criteria established
- Implemented in spreadsheets or interfaces to CRM packages; reports thru Atlassian Confluence pages
- Highlights gaps in performance vs. plan and enables course corrections
Market experience data collection and mining
- Uses Atlassian Jira for issue tracking and categorization
- Categorizes by Customer, Competitor and Inflection
- Feeds and drives the organizations "Innovation Atmosphere"
Implementing an Adaptive-Management Program
Initial Consultation - approx. 1 day
- Determine if Adaptive Management can help your business
- Interview 2-3 senior managers
- Results in a scope of work and proposal
Assessment - approx. 5-10 days
- Select and interview key individuals applying the Adaptive-Management Assessment Questionnaire
- Observe aspects of the organizations innovation and operations workflows
- Result is an assessment report, recommended opportunities and priorities, and proposed implementation plan
Implementation
- Execute the implementation plan
- Length is dependent on the plan, scope and goals.
- Result is a re-assessment to measure the improvements and achievements.
Support - approx. 4 hours per week for 12-16 weeks
- As needed to assure the changes and improvements are self-sustaining
- Training as needed for employee turnover
- Improvements and new features in tools and process documentation
