"No matter how good the team or how efficient the methodology, if we’re not solving the right problem, the project fails.”
Woody Williams
At Wilson Biz Consulting
Opportunity Framing Workshops are used for early project planning and to bring key decision-makers, the team, and stakeholders together in a professionally facilitated setting to understand, explore, articulate, and align upon what the project frame is about.
We specialize in bringing project teams together, unleashing their collective wisdom, and guiding them through dynamic and highly productive sessions.
Our facilitation expertise drives clarity, alignment, and establishes a clear roadmap for project success.
Through our facilitation process, we help your teams gain a deep understanding of project objectives, value drivers, scope, givens and assumptions, understand strategic fit, iand establish a shared vision. We navigate through complexities, identify potential roadblocks, opportunities and collectively develop strategies to overcome challenges.
The outcome? A cohesive project team that is aligned, motivated, and equipped with a robust roadmap for success. Our dynamic facilitation techniques drive consensus, foster efficient decision-making, and enable your team to execute projects with precision and confidence.
Project Managers, Does It Sound Familiar?
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Jumping to conclusions too quickly without understanding what we are trying to achieve and why
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Making decisions using unconscious assumptions
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Misalignment between the team doing the work and leadership groups providing funding
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Team feeling overwhelmed by not knowing what to focus on first
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Teams falling into a groupthink trap. Decisions are frequently made by the same, most vocal person. Teams repeatedly drift toward a particular idea, and they fail to recognize contradictory information or better solutions.
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Lack of early planning that results in poor services, frustration and even lack of funding or misalignment.
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Executing projects or initiatives without having a clarity on the purpose and what our customers want
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Our facilitation expertise together with a well designed opportunity framing workshop, drives clarity, alignment, and establishes a clear roadmap for project success.
5 Benefits From Using Opportunity Framing Workshops:
Understand the context and agree upon the purpose, issues, and scope of complex, high-value opportunity
Avoid solving the wrong problem, which results in wasted time, resources, or opportunities.
Achieve strategic fit by making sure all your projects are aligned with your organizational strategies and directions
Confidence in decision - making during the phase and at the decision gate, especially at the early phase of project development.
Improved risk management by making sure only projects with a good definition and clear value preposition are going through decision gates.
4 Phase Approach To Opportunity Framing Workshop
Phase 1
Prepare
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Sponsor’s meeting
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Identify key stakeholders
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Guiding principles
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Report structure
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Key inputs
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Organizational directives, strategies, and givens
Phase 2
Understand
Current state
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Grounding presentation
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Issues, risks, questions, opportunities, and concerns
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Value drivers
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Givens versus assumptions
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Scope (in, out, on)
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Opportunity statement
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Strategic fit
Phase 3
Create
Desired State
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Definition of success
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Critical success factors
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Measures of success
Phase 4
The Way
forward
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Phases and gates – project milestones
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Decision hierarchy
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Stakeholders’ identification and basic analysis
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Deliverables
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Assurance activities
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Action Planning
Testimonial
Tony Ryan,
Woodside Energy, Project Manager,
Greater Enfield FEED
Framing Update
