The Anvil™ Program
Forge Ideas Into Results
What if you could see tangible results on your most important strategic priorities within 30 days?
The Anvil™ program is a series of interactive sessions delivered in flexible, digestible 2-hour modules designed to help organizations move forward quickly, effectively, and efficiently to drive new growth in a rapidly changing world. By applying proven methodologies to your real-world situations, your team will see tangible results inside of 30 days.
As the industry leader in helping financial institutions build and leverage their innovation capacity, we have facilitated this program for hundreds of participants around the world for organizations of all sizes.
We call this program Anvil™ because it is the foundation for forging ideas into results.
Anvil™ Part 1 - Foundry: For Senior Leadership Teams
Strategic Alignment and Prioritization
Designed to align executive teams around key opportunities and threats, identify top strategic priorities, translate them into actionable steps, and define internal structures and programs to manage them effectively and efficiently. Four 2-hour sessions usually completed in the same week
Foundry Module 1
Differentiating Through Strategy
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Go beyond operational effectiveness to create real value
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Create sustainable competitive advantage
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Build agility to minimize disruption risk
Foundry Module 2
Allocating Limited Resources
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Identify growth vectors for investment
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Align current and future activities with strategic priorities
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Determine risk and return allocations
Foundry Module 3
Creating Capacity to Innovate
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Establish scalable program to balance execution and growth
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Create structure and process for funding and governance of new initiatives
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Measure and improve your team's innovation maturity Learn More
Foundry Module 4
Forging Ideas into Results
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Implement rapid customer discovery cycles
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Generate better user insights
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Balance feasibility and viability with user desirability
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Define success metrics
Anvil™ Part 2 - FIRE™ Teams & Tools: For Delivery Teams
Agile Execution for Teams
Designed to help the cross-functional team(s) charged with delivering results move quickly from strategy to execution in a way that maximizes learning and rapid tangible progress within 30 days. Four 2-hour sessions generally completed within the same month.
FIRE Team™ Session 1
Understanding the Opportunity
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Identify customer jobs to be done, gains sought, and pain points
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Apply Minimum Viable Product approach to solution design
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Set high level objectives, key metrics and big picture vision
FIRE Team™ Session 2
Envisioning Potential Solutions
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Map current and/or proposed process or journey map and identify critical elements
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Explore potential solutions
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Gather external data to prioritize critical elements in the design
FIRE Team™ Session 3
Framing the Experiment
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Identify core hypotheses and assumptions
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Decide areas of greatest uncertainty and highest importance to prioritize testing
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Design initial experiments
FIRE Team™ Session 4
Advancing the Experiment
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Design agile risk management approach
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Define success criteria
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Formulate pitch for approval and resources to the governance group
SPARKTANK: Where Strategy Meets Execution
The culmination of the Anvil™ program is an interactive SparkTank review session with your FIRE™ Team(s) and your senior leadership team.
Structured to emphasize tangible progress and rapid learning rather than complex project management in the early stages, teams reduce risk on new ventures by testing the most important elements quickly and cheaply.
