There are risks hiding between your teams
You’ve gained traction, your business is growing, and you have great teams – but they’re working at pace.
It’s hard bringing them together to consider all the inter-dependencies in their strategies and roadmaps.
This creates risky assumptions, gaps in thinking, and misalignments that hide between your teams.
HIDDEN RISKS create barriers to scale
Business model issues
Infrastructure can’t scale
Business model issues
Not looking at the holistic business model in sufficient depth to optimise it for scale
Slow customer growth
Infrastructure can’t scale
Business model issues
Not ‘reaching the majority’; marketing too little, too late; retention; unclear KPIs and ROIs
Infrastructure can’t scale
Infrastructure can’t scale
Infrastructure can’t scale
Not having the systems, processes, operations, tech, etc., to support a business at scale
Unprofitable
Infrastructure can’t scale
Infrastructure can’t scale
Not enough revenue vs. costs to serve and run the business; financial mismanagement
Product bloat
Regulatory challenges
Being outcompeted
Too many features; over customising; support burdens; implementation; tech obstacles
Being outcompeted
Regulatory challenges
Being outcompeted
Not keeping up with others; not hitting product design and experience benchmarks
Internal misalignment
Regulatory challenges
Regulatory challenges
Silos; strategies / roadmaps not joined up; overpromising; under-delivering; comms issues
Regulatory challenges
Regulatory challenges
Regulatory challenges
Blocking the businesses; the time and costs involved in compliance and legal issues
Hidden risks cause a spectrum of pain
We turn risks into growth opportunities
What do you want us to focus on?
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
Holistic investigation to find hidden risks that exist between the core teams of your business.
Focus on inter-dependencies between your team and their respective strategies and roadmaps.
Identify business-wide barriers to scale that can be turned into major growth opportunities.
2. UNHAPPY PATHS
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
Deep dive investigation to find hidden risks that exist in your product roadmap or a specific feature.
Focus on worst case scenarios that can impact both your end-user and business in the mid-term.
Identify specific barriers to scale that will require co-ordination between your teams to address
3. MOUNTING DEBT
1. STRATEGIES / ROADMAPS
3. MOUNTING DEBT
Business-wide investigation to find hidden risks in the short-term decisions your teams had to make.
Focus on mid-term impact that the sum of these decisions will have on your growth ambitions.
Identify mid-term barriers to scale that can’t be ignored and need you to start planning for now
Rapid series of workshops
1. RISKS
2. BARRIERS
2. BARRIERS
Surface as many hidden risks as possible by looking at all the inter-dependencies between your team’s strategies and roadmaps.
2. BARRIERS
2. BARRIERS
2. BARRIERS
Consolidate the risks into barriers to scale challenges, mapping them out to identify the most important and complex to solve.
3. IDEAS
2. BARRIERS
3. IDEAS
Flesh out details in the prioritised challenges, then generate early ideas for how we might turn them into serious growth opportunities.
4. OPPORTUNITIES
6. JOINED-UP PLAN
4. OPPORTUNITIES
Consolidate, refine, and prioritise the growth opportunities and early ideas, to identify the biggest rewards versus time needed.
5. INITIATIVES
6. JOINED-UP PLAN
4. OPPORTUNITIES
Generate ideas for how to capitalise on the opportunities, consolidating these ideas into ‘initiatives’ to consider further.
6. JOINED-UP PLAN
6. JOINED-UP PLAN
6. JOINED-UP PLAN
Prioritise the initiatives to identify the strongest to act on, drafting a joined-up plan with high-level milestones and actions.
ExampleS of what this looks like
Value we deliver
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
We surfaced major risks and barriers to scaling that were hiding between your teams
Turned these into growth opportunities
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
We turned your biggest risks and barriers to scaling into big opportunities for growth
Worked as one-team on a joined-up plan
Surfaced hidden risks / barriers to scaling
Worked as one-team on a joined-up plan
We started to build a joined-up plan for how to go after the biggest growth opportunities
Workshops are our superpower
James Bailey // 1210s Design Director
15+ years experience helping businesses to unlock more value from their products, services, and business models to drive real growth.
- 25+ businesses helped over 75+ engagements
- Certified design coach and workshop facilitator
- Masterclasses at iXDA and SDN global conferences
- Invented methodologies and 1,000s hours experience
+ Additional Expert // Hand picked to your needs
We leverage our network of industry leading practitioners from the worlds of innovation, ventures, strategy, consultancy, and more.
- Co-deliver all workshops and outputs with James
- Bring an additional value-add skillset into the mix
- Elevate our thinking and outputs even further
- Ensure you get maximum value from us