I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a evening of “unplugged” business eco system discussions with a group of very experienced executive business leaders from a variety of industries such as engineering, digital services, hospitality, pharma, public sector, physical security, convenience … etc.
The idea behind spending an evening in informal settings discussing with other leaders, is to bring a common understanding of the components of the corporate eco system to the table, and then, organically, walk through each leaders successes and challenges and place these business items in the eco system.
Interestingly, when walking through the challenges, there are more similarities across industries than one would expect, which in itself is a valuable result of having the opportunity to discuss this with other executive business leaders. Your challenges are rarely unique and there is room for sparring with other leaders.
Similarly, looking at the primary business focus areas ahead, and relating that to what was identified in the first part of the discussion, brings helpful clarity to what investments are required (resources, direction, leadership focus), and where emphasis should be put for these goals to actually materialize as planned – or where strategy has to be rethought and revamped.
It is an exercise that is easy to approach and it lends itself to transforming the takeaways directly into the company strategy.
Interested in organising a facilitated eco system discussion in your leadership team? Feel free to contact me!