Creating the Enterprise of the Future – Propel Your Business Forward
Recognizing what new technology will be next year’s product is challenging enough let alone how to integrate that information with a business strategy. Technology changes everything and fast. Pervasive access to networked devices for example has changed the way we work, learn, play, buy and communicate.
Deep Innovation explores business models and organizing principles, within the context of important emerging technologies and business trends. Its goal is to provide you with an integrated view of future business possibilities related to your objectives, issues and markets.
The course is based on the findings of IBM’s Enterprise of the Future team, which included both leaders in IBM’s technical and consulting communities, as well as external participation with clients, business partners and industry leaders. It is intended to help you shape new ideas in propelling your business forward to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Who Will Benefit?
The course is aimed at executives representing both line of business and technical organizations including leaders who need to understand how new technical capabilities can be brought together for competitive advantage.
What You Will Learn
Through group discussions, case studies, and simulations, you will:
- Identify trends, emerging capabilities and potential opportunities applicable to business planning
- Exchange ideas with IBM's technical leadership and business/IT decision makers
- Understand how next-generation business models and IT solutions may apply to your business or industry
- Acquire insight from business and technical communities on how to create successful change initiatives
- Identify key roles of different business units involved in change
- Learn how to evaluate and assess development opportunities that may lower costs, improve customer satisfaction and position a business ahead of competitors
Course Outline
In preparation for this course, an EBI faculty member will contact you to gather input on current issues and interests, and your reaction to some related scenarios. These responses then form a narrative that draws upon emerging technologies and an extrapolation of a relevant case history, to create a workshop scenario. For more information about this workshop process, see What is Deep Innovation?
Day 1 – Introduction to Future Enterprise Models and Technologies
- Review and validation of issues, concerns and hopes elicited from the advance interviews
- Introduction to Enterprise of the Future - origins, accomplishments, goals
- Enterprise of the Future visions, game changers and potential impacts on business
- Focus on the future of attendee industries and the key challenges they face
- In-Class Exercise - Analyzing a new technology
- Crafted scenarios from attendee reactions
Day 2 – Workshop Scenarios and Horizons Process
- Eight challenges to business
- Introduction to Horizons process of requirements analysis - exploring explicit, implicit, disruptive possibilities from the scenario
- Small group workshops - Hot points / Expressed and implied needs
- Presentations of small groups - ideas and insights
- Small group workshops - Going from the vision of the future to executing on it
- Attendee voices - The next steps
- Discussion and agreement on actions and follow-up - Activity planning
- Summary and reflections on the workshop
Course Leaders
Peter Andrews has spent his career bridging the gap between the potential and realized gains from emerging technologies. He uses that knowledge in the courses he leads. He is an emerging technologies analyst and the author over 150 articles on science and technology. He has participated in numerous IBM Academy studies.