Strategic Planning Resources

One approach to integrating legacy and digital transformation strategies.

Facilitation - Problem solving. Get people at the same stage first.

Research is starting to surface around the Lean Startup method and its relationship to entrepreneurial success. Within that research is a key question that should drive your experiments - "What is your hypothesis about the world based on your unique knowledge and beliefs?"

Small data projects / low-hanging-fruit helps provide a more stable foundation for big data initiatives by asking easily understood and rapidly applicable questions, leveraging familiar tools and data sources, and providing lower-risk / higher reward opportunities to practice both the data science and the application of the findings into real-world solutions. Side benefits include the improvement of overall data quality and an increase data science capacity among your staff.

Higher education has the added challenge of money that the central organization never sees because it goes to specific programs - through research grants, donations to certain colleges, donations for the construction of specific buildings and/or naming rights - making the central strategic planning process even more of a cat-herding exercise. The principles, however, remain the same no matter what industry/organization you are working with.

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