HBMG Inc

Over the Horizon Seminars

Another future perspectives methodology is to organize a series of meetings with leading researchers for the organization and its partners to learn about pertinent technology that is emerging from their labs. This is the time in the technology readiness path where the technology can be shaped to meet the needs of a customer set in an more expeditious, focused, and less-risky way.

Grand Challenges Workshops

Understanding the future is a difficult process to jump start within a group. Diverse care-abouts, mindsets, and knowledge assets are needed to develop, communicate, and implement an organization’s strategy. Grand Challenges Workshops are used to accomplish getting the organization’s stakeholders on the right starting block. When people realize and agree on the challenges facing the organization, it is easier for them to work on solutions together. The HBMG SI&F team organizes, conducts, and documents such workshops. 

Planning for Technological Impact Seminars

This training is built to the specific needs and culture of the organization. This educational seminar is structured to provide insight that leads an organization to the realization that it must transform, and then giving it the tools, cultural orientation, and incentive to make that transformation.

Collaborative Processes Training

Successful focusing projects involve input from every current and future stakeholder within the project’s scope. This involvement brings dividends in terms of the innovativeness and wisdom of the focus area selection, the sophistication of the resulting action plans, and the increase of buy-in. This involves learning to work collaboratively in a team of teams. Instruction in the new methods, tools, and techniques of collaboration is a valuable part of any focusing activity.

Transformation/Innovation Assistance

In any phase of a strategic or tactical planning endeavor, HBMG is available to move the effort forward. Whether by conducting ideation sessions using its high impact techniques or by small workshops based a set of its tools or by searching out hidden agendas, the team’s insights and tradecraft can be called on for point services.

Technology Management Education

Technology management is a new competency for most organizations. HBMG’s Strategic Insights and Futures team has transferred years of experience in the field, frameworks it has developed, and tools it has built and refined into in-house education for this critical new business function. Beyond a stand alone offering, this education package can be done in conjunction with project engagement to provide a basic level of skills and a vocabulary that can be used during the engagement and afterwards, assuring that the activity is sustainable.

Red Teaming

Through an independent peer review of a strategy, strategic assessment, or the strategy setting process itself, the strategy can be improved and risk mitigated. The HBMG team is experienced in strategy setting, has a wide range of applicable knowledge in technology, organizational theory, and societal trends, and offers a fresh perspective in connecting the dots.

Business Simulation Games

These games are serious. Adapted from the world of video games and war games, they are a powerful way to engage people who are more action oriented than cerebral. They can make a strategy more actionable, promote tighter collaboration between planner and implementer, and bring out additional innovative elements to the strategy. A valuable feature of this methodology is its ability to use remote collaboration to improve the time, efficiency, and scope of the strategy setting process.

Strategic Planning Education

It is important that people within an organization be equipped with the tradecraft to understand the future and find ways to harness it. Our training not only provides the tools for knowing the future, but it introduces methodologies to communicate it and to organize collaborative teams for planning for the future.

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