Strategic Planning
Define your processes, empower your employees, get out of the weeds, and make your strategic goals a reality.
It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of keeping your organization running. Our team understands the challenge and can work with you to prioritize the good work. Strategic planning and cross-functional discovery sessions help to establish your team or organization’s core strengths and weaknesses.
DataBank’s experts can guide you through exercises and discussions to map out your most important opportunities and define clear objectives. From this work, the roadmapping process can begin. When we are focused on the bigger picture or mission, our joint roadmaps and individual projects naturally become centered on return on investment. When done properly, the work we do isn’t a long-term expense to organizations – rather investments that will pay dividends.
Pain Points
Backlogged Projects
A large backlog of projects is a key indicator to take a step back and reassess strategy. Our strategic planning sessions focus on defining and roadmapping priorities so that you and your team walk away with renewed focus. We work to uncover inefficiencies, broader program management issues, and staffing gaps that could be leading to the lack of momentum.
Staffing Challenges
As part of our strategic planning offerings, we regularly host staffing and talent discovery sessions with our clients. This allows us to dig deeper into your existing resources and outline gaps, whether that be in capability, or simply hours in the day. We assess potential opportunities and threats, including staffing and bandwidth, to evaluate how your team’s capabilities can be amplified and focused.
Disjointed Teams
Getting multiple divisions and departments on the same page is no easy task, but truly impactful organizational change is impossible without it. Over the years we have established a methodology for bringing teams together. From cross-functional roadmapping sessions, to dedicated educational events, we collaborate with you to build the best approach and walk you through the activation of the plan.