How do you make speedboat teams in a large organization?
The truth is that we are all in a bad situation.
The open secret of the Enterprise world is quite similar to Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal.
The feeling that runs through the countless business and digital transformation processes that we have been leading in recent years at Strauss Strategy can be described in one word: anxiety.
Most of us come from Israel’s heaviest aircraft carriers, it is clear to all of us that the icebergs around us are growing, in the form of competition and the forces of disruption
in the market, when at any moment the whole market can change and the organization of the enterprise can become irrelevant.
We are surrounded by startups that change everything – manage to reach new continents, at record speed, look at the crazy rate at which unicorns are born all around us.
The feeling of anxiety is accompanied by a feeling of frustration.
The frustration that, based on the existing organizational structure and management method, it is not possible to create in the enterprise organizations a true Digitalfactory capability in the organization – the same constant rhythm of launching innovative-digital ventures that bring to the market, quickly, a response to clear business needs, and make it possible to preserve and even increase the competitive advantage time after time!
Everything is stuck – like the Ever Given in Suez.
so what are we doing?
Most organizations try to bring an outside solution such as Agile, acquisitions, Open API-based collaborations, outsource the activity or through an agency.
These are actually band-aids, and everything fades slowly.
Our aircraft carriers need a new engine, a new organizational mindset – a new method!
What if we could, we change the system from the inside? A method by which aircraft carrier speedboat crews are made.
We at Strauss Strategy have succeeded in distilling the process, the method and the tools that enable an answer to this challenge, an answer that is a Game Changer that makes it possible to shorten the entire process of creating and launching a new digital business venture to the level of a few weeks.
This is already happening in our continuous work with organizations in Israel, those who have realized that they must change the system from within.
This method is called X-Labs
We decided at Strauss that once a year together with Microsoft Israel we share the method and methodology with senior managers from the business, digital and technological side of the most significant organizations in the economy.
25 senior managers from different organizations meet together and within 3 months become a team and go through a full process of planning and building a working digital business venture.
Together with a very broad team of mentors – 12 mentors, business-marketing, organizational-process, digital, data, cloud – learn the method using tools and methodologies from the startup world
In a framework of hands-on learning and doing, in the painstaking construction of 3 digital ventures – from identifying the business idea to the stage of a business venture, building a real working MVP, and up to the presentation of the venture, and the business and application pitch, TED style in front of their CEOs. Because that’s the only way you learn!
You know what happens when you put together talents from different organizations, those senior managers from the spectrum of enterprise organizations in Israel who have the X-Factor?
Magic was just born!!
At Strauss, a movement has begun that changes everything we knew about innovation in large organizations, and we invite you to be a part of it.
We would like to thank the People & Computers group for giving us the opportunity to describe the X-Labs change method at their amazing conference in Dubai with all the top executives of the industry.
Israel & UAE – IT & Business Conference
