Corporate and Executive Programs
to help
UNBREAK THE BANK
Our immersive, hands-on Anvil™ program is designed to help organizations build and leverage their innovative capacity to create and maintain competitive advantage and drive exponential growth.
Each module of the Anvil™ program serves a specific purpose, and they’re all designed to work together. Each module is available separately, but for optimal results and value, we strongly recommend completing the entire program, which can be completed inside of 30 days.
The specific content areas of the program is custom-tailored to your unique situation and goals. Each session is professionally facilitated live in real-time by our team who bring real-world expertise and experience, along with our industry-leading tools and frameworks.
Part 1 - Foundry: For Senior Leadership Teams
Strategic Alignment and Prioritization
Designed to align executive teams around key opportunities and threats, identify top strategic priorities, translate them into actionable steps, and define internal structures and programs to manage them effectively and efficiently.
Foundry Module 1
Differentiating Through Strategy
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Go beyond operational effectiveness to create real value
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Create sustainable competitive advantage
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Build agility to minimize disruption risk
Foundry Module 2
Allocating Limited Resources
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Identify growth vectors for investment
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Align current and future activities with strategic priorities
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Determine risk and return allocations
Foundry Module 3
Creating Capacity to Innovate
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Establish scalable program to balance execution and growth
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Create structure and process for funding and governance of new initiatives
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Measure and improve your team's innovation maturity Learn More
Foundry Module 4
Forging Ideas into Results
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Implement rapid customer discovery cycles
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Generate better user insights
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Balance feasibility and viability with user desirability
Part 2 - FIRE™ Teams & Tools: For Delivery Teams
Agile Execution for Teams
Designed to help the cross-functional team(s) charged with delivering results move quickly from strategy to execution in a way that maximizes learning and rapid tangible progress within 30 days.
FIRE Team™ Session 1
Understanding the Opportunity
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Identify customer jobs to be done, gains sought, and pain points
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Apply Minimum Viable Product approach to solution design
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Set high level objectives, key metrics and big picture vision
FIRE Team™ Session 2
Envisioning Potential Solutions
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Map current and/or proposed process or journey map and identify critical elements
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Explore potential solutions
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Gather external data to prioritize critical elements in the design
FIRE Team™ Session 3
Framing the Experiment
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Identify core hypotheses and assumptions
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Decide areas of greatest uncertainty and highest importance to prioritize testing
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Design initial experiments
FIRE Team™ Session 4
Advancing the Experiment
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Design agile risk management approach
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Define success criteria
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Formulate pitch for approval and resources to the governance group
SPARKTANK: Where Strategy Meets Execution
The culmination of the Anvil™ program is an interactive SparkTank review session with your FIRE™ Team(s) and your senior leadership team.
Structured to emphasize tangible progress and rapid learning rather than complex project management in the early stages, teams reduce risk on new ventures by testing the most important elements quickly and cheaply.
