Hello, Strategy Sprints
The Strategy Sprint is a structured, hands-on process for making decisions, setting goals and mapping next steps with your team. It compresses months of planning into action-driven work that aligns teams and produces tangible outcomes.
Nix the long meetings and months of drawn out planning. Work smarter. Gain alignment. Make effective decisions. Keep teams motivated. Ensure accountability. Avoid missteps and rework. Skip strategic planning and start strategic doing.
Use Cases
Strategy Sprints are designed for small to large teams and complex challenges. While tailored to each context, our past Strategy Sprints have helped Client teams:
Improve a Process or Experience
Develop and Execute Strategic Plans
Develop Business or Product Strategy
Create a Vision and Align Goals to that Vision
Better Understand Customers or Stakeholders
Get a Team or Customers to Adopt a New Behavior
Complete Foundational Work for a Design Sprint
When to Sprint
Strategy Sprints work best when one or more of these conditions are met:
The challenge is ill-defined, or there are knowledge gaps about the challenge
One or more stakeholders or teams need to align on the challenge
Goals and/or a vision need defining
The path forward is unclear
Strategy Sprint Methods
Strategy Sprints draw on leading innovation tools and methods, including Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Behavior Change and Business Strategy. Our experts leverage these tools to create a custom session that produces the results you need to move your project and team forward.
Who Uses Them
We've run Strategy Sprints for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, social enterprises, universities, and government teams. Past Strategy Sprint teams have included executives, boards of trustees, team leads, external stakeholders, strategic planners, product owners, IT professionals, customer/user experience designers and a host of other individual contributors. Our Strategy Sprints work for a wide range of contexts and teams because we design them with you to meet your specific needs.
Your Strategy Sprint
The design of your Strategy Sprint depends on what you're trying to accomplish, which is why each one includes at least 1-2 planning calls with our experts to ensure the workshop is designed in lockstep with your goals for the session. At a high level, Strategy Sprints generally follow the Discovery, Strategy and Roadmap steps described below:
Why Wily?
We run and teach sprints full time. This isn’t a side hustle or a hook for a bigger engagement. That means you get an effective, battle-tested process.
We’re practitioners first. We draw from our experience in strategy, design, lean, UX and agile to tailor sprints to your needs. That means you get the best chance of success.
We run sprints for Fortune 500’s, governments, social enterprises and educational institutions, and can go toe-to-toe with the largest agencies in the world. That means you get world class talent without the inflated egos or prices.
We love what we do and have chosen to spend our most valuable resource (our time) to create a vehicle (this company) to do our life's work. That means you are treated as a partner, and you get our commitment to deliver our very best work.
We are passionate. We are purpose driven. We Are Wily.