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What this pathway involves
Two questions. One disciplined approach.
Discovery is used when there isn't yet enough evidence to justify significant action or investment.
Sometimes the uncertainty is about what is happening and why. At other times it is about which idea, proposition or opportunity is worth pursuing.
Diagnostic Discovery examines organisational issues, recurring problems and their underlying causes.
Proposition Discovery examines ideas, products, services and opportunities to establish what is worth developing, testing or taking forward.
Both start from the same principle: understand the evidence before committing to the response.
Discovery Includes
- Review of the presenting situation, context and available evidence
- Facilitated Discovery structured around the problem or opportunity being explored
- Deliberate testing of assumptions, evidence and uncertainty
- Clear separation of what is known, interpreted and still needs to be tested
- Structured decision making before significant action or investment
By the end of Discovery, you will have a clearer understanding of the problem or opportunity being explored, what the evidence supports and what remains uncertain.
Sometimes that creates sufficient clarity to act independently. Sometimes further evidence or testing is needed. And sometimes the most valuable finding is that the action originally being considered isn't justified by the evidence.
Diagnostic Discovery concludes with evidence-led findings, recommendations and practical next actions.
Proposition Discovery concludes with a clearer proposition, priorities, validation requirements and evidence about what should be tested or taken forward.
Discovery is a complete intervention in its own right.
Where continued support is appropriate, the evidence determines what happens next. That may include Leadership Actualisation, Board Support, implementation, further specialist support or no further intervention.
Discovery Delivers
- A clearer definition of the problem, opportunity or decision being explored
- Separation of evidence, interpretation and assumption
- Greater clarity about what is causing the situation or what opportunity is worth pursuing
- Deliberate challenge before action or investment is recommended
- Credible options, priorities and the uncertainty surrounding them
- Clarity about what can responsibly be decided now and what requires further evidence
- Evidence-led recommendations and practical next actions
When Discovery may help
You don't need to know which form of Discovery you need. The starting point is the situation you are facing and what remains uncertain.
Diagnostic Discovery
Diagnostic Discovery may help when:
- the same problems keep returning
- growth is creating unexpected friction
- priorities keep shifting
- decisions are repeatedly revisited.
It can also provide greater clarity before a significant intervention or leadership succession where the underlying situation needs to be better understood.
Proposition Discovery
Proposition Discovery may help when:
- you are turning an idea into a proposition
- defining or validating a minimal viable product (MVP)
- scaling and the proposition needs to evolve.
It can also help an established organisation assess new products, services, features, markets or opportunities before committing significant resources.
Next step
Is this the right pathway for you?
There is no obligation and nothing to prepare. A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether this is the right route, or whether another one fits your situation better.
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