GET TO NEXT|Sprints
Envision
and
Expand
Activate What Matters
Envision And Expand
Aligning Teams Around Action
Recognizing The Future Today
Introduction
Once upon a time, strategy sessions were enough to take a company to the next level. Development was incremental and either simply a linear projection of the past or a vision into an intimidating realm of science fiction. Today we need a research-based, disciplined process to develop early-stage hunches into a clear roadmap. Beyond traditional strategies like design thinking, lean startup sprints – Get To Next establishes commercial impact that can grow to scale making ideas real – Now.
Who Is This For?
- Teams who bring early-stage investments to market success
- Drive of change for a company division, a non-profit, or purpose-driven organization
- Lone innovators looking to get people on board with a great idea
- Change agents with ideas for transformation or growth
Objectives and Outcomes
We all want to GET AHEAD OF THE FUTURE but in order to do that, we need to see beyond our NOW.
Anticipating the future is critical to the innovation process. So how do we effectively see what is coming down the pipeline? How do we recognize the future today? How do we create the future we want? In order to EXPAND our innovative ideas, we need to learn and master new things. To find new horizons we must kindle our hunger for knowledge and not feel overwhelmed with how to catch up.
Envison & Expand Modules
- Tap into your initial hunches
- Take stock of the new realities
- See the future, today
- Assess the gaps: Ideal, Missing
- See today, in the future
- Make it real in small ways, planting, testing, tangible, visible, practical + bigger
- Explore your hunches: test and learn
- Build momentum
Format
Format
In-Person – Virtual – Hybrid options.
Group size 10-50.
Sprints can also be conducted for individuals, teams, or cohorts in 6-12-week cohorts.
FacilITator
Andrea Kates
Andrea Kates is a San Francisco Bay Area-based authority at moving innovation to revenue. She focuses on uncovering untapped opportunities and galvanizing strategic vision. For 20 years she’s led bold initiatives in virtually every sector and every geography that help companies figure out where to place their bets on emerging products, services and technologies and to scale dynamic business models. In essence: How do you disrupt before being disrupted, avoid the blind side and get ahead of the future? Leaders who work with Andrea develop a new mindset about future growth, informed by both data and new insights.
Andrea was CEO of the San Francisco SaaS software company that pioneered the application of Lean Startup with scaleup and large companies. In that capacity, she had visibility into more than 13,000 commercialization, technology, and innovation initiatives covering a broad spectrum of companies within the innovation ecosystem from government research labs to large companies (3M, Intel), and a wide range of startups.
Based on her experience, she developed the original Get to Next methodology which is specifically designed to equip corporate teams to ACTIVATE Innovation. The core components are: ENVISION emerging opportunities with fresh eyes, EXPAND rapidly through new lenses and future-focused technologies, BUILD initiatives from early stage through to scale, and ENGAGE leaders and teams with the new direction.
She has “futureproofed” teams in virtually every sector including mobile (Ford US + China, GM, Audi), manufacturing/energy (ABB, Audi, GM, Shell-Asia Pacific + Europe), technology/mobile (Fujitsu, HP, Cisco); healthcare (Atrium Health, Mayo Clinic, Roche), B2C consumer goods/hospitality (United Airlines, Sodexo, ALFA-Middle East) and financial services (Allstate, AIG, Citi). Her original research in cross-industry growth was published in her book, Find Your Next.
Andrea has been the featured keynote speaker and global thought leader on the TED main stage, Aspen Ideas Festival, CXO Forum in Tokyo, Rueda de Innovación (Colombia), and in corporate settings (3M, Cisco, Phocuswright: The Future of Travel, OpenFinance Mexico: The Future of Finance, Dubai 2020). Her board affiliations include: Embrace Global, Copenhagen Fintech, OpenFinance Mexico, and Stanford University’s global institute on Responsible Digital Leadership.
Today, Andrea works with leaders to discover their best future with a tangible, practical set of steps called: GET TO NEXT.
What Clients HAVE TOLD US
Innovation has become the buzzword for new thinking. Andrea has truly created a playbook to make innovative thinking something that can actually be implemented. It’s what we’ve all needed! Working with Andrea Kates brings a sense of new possibility, the spirit of co-creation, as well as an ecosystem-based strategic mindset that drives all of us to go bolder.
There has never been more pressure on business leaders to innovate than today. Market pressures, geopolitical shifts, changing technology paradigms, you name it. There has simply never been a more urgent need to identify solutions to new and important problems than right now. But how do you go about venturing into the unknown and emerging stronger for it?
The Get to Next methodology delivers an essential set tool that will help you navigate the challenges ahead of you. You will find it not only a great read, but an invaluable business asset.
