| Cambridge Executive Workshops
(CEWs) |
The CTE Center of Innovation (CCI)
has innovated Cambridge Executive Workshops (CEWs)
to help enterprises find transformational and
integration solutions that turn technology innovation
into business results and help them evolve into
future-ready businesses.
An integral part of CCI’s unique Cambridge
Collaborative Delivery™ (CCD™) methodology,
CEWs enable client enterprises to envision customized
business solutions. Through CEWs, the CCI provides
a forum for rapid identification, development
and presentation of innovative, technology-driven
solutions to business problems. These solutions
deliver competitive advantages, add new revenue
streams, reduce operating expenses, and streamline
business operations.
CEW
Approach
CEW
Process
CEW
Enablers
CEW
Approach
Cambridge Executive Workshops (CEWs) are innovative
forums that bring together CTE’s expert
business and technology consultants and the strategic
management team of the client enterprise, for
rapid identification, development, and presentation
of innovative, technology driven-solutions to
business problems. Through CEWs, CTE helps client
enterprises visualize and develop the road map
for solutions that can reinvent their business
processes and workflows by aligning appropriate
IT solutions with well-developed business strategies
and plans.
CEWs enable client enterprises to harness CTE’s
expertise in business consulting, system integration
and application outsourcing, its outstanding partner
alliances, industry and business process knowledge,
deep understanding of emerging technologies, functional
capabilities and global resources and technology.
The CEW approach enables the client enterprise
to make quick and successful transitions with
visible and measurable ROIs from executive support
& organizational sponsorship, executive visibility
& team representation, prototype & implementation
roadmap, and new strategies and solution support.
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CEW
Process
Visioning Session
Visioning Seminar
Architecture Assessment
Innovation Workshop
Application Workshop
Pilot Development
During the workshops, CTE shares knowledge of
its methodologies, processes, and systems to
ensure that client teams can fully and independently
represent the outcome of the workshop. CTE delivers
the framework for idea generation and prioritization,
tools, technologies and techniques used for
rapid development.
At the end of the CEW engagement, the client
enterprise team presents the solution and business
case to its senior management, and uses the
deliverables from the Workshops as the first
step toward extending IT infrastructure to solve
their business problems, and developing an IT
strategy that supports their business objectives.
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| Visioning
Session |
Executive Seminars are designed
to put business case analyses in an executive education
context. Discussions center on near-term opportunities,
business process advancement, IT developments, CIO
concerns, and strategic initiatives. |
1 Day |
| Visioning
Seminar |
Innovation Visioning Seminars
focuses on CTE’s unique Right Hand /Left Hand
framework, trying to lead the customer into new
ideas. Attendees learn how this model for innovation
can be specifically applied to their organization. |
1 Day |
| Architecture
Assessment |
An Architecture Assessment focuses
on creating an Affordable & Adaptable IT (A2IT)
Blueprint. It is meant to help tie IT to business
on a global scale looking at business, process and
technology. The Assessment looks at architecture,
infrastructure, planning and governance. |
1-8 Weeks |
| Innovation
Workshop |
Visioning Workshops are conducted
to define a shared business/IT vision. The process
starts by profoundly understanding the business
problem and engaging key senior stakeholders in
an idea generation environment. The team groups
and prioritizes ideas to structure high-level workstreams
that collectively move the organization from the
“as-is” situation to the “to-be”
stage. |
3 Weeks |
| Application
Workshop |
The Application Workshop builds
on the vision and goals as developed in the Visioning
Workshop (or equivalent) by taking one if the identified
workstreams and creating a focused requirements-based
prototype visualization of the desired end product. |
3-4 Weeks |
| Pilot |
The Pilot takes a spiral-based
delivery approach to rapidly demonstrate value to
the customer. It is a natural extension off of an
application workshop, and it can be viewed as the
1st spiral of a rapid application development process. |
15-20 Weeks |
CEW
Enablers
CEWs enable organizations to transition quickly and
successfully from Problem to Solution
and then to Implementation by addressing the
following four areas: Support, Empowerment, Implementation,
and Business Case.
- CTE ensures that the focus is aligned with
the client organization's key goals and objectives
by working with a senior champion for the workshop
effort
- Through team member selection and the final
presentation to the client's executive management,
CTE’s workshop approach secures support
across the organization for the strategy and
solution
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- CTE assists the customer in identifying the
right team members to maximize the workshop's
value to the organization, based on criteria such
as expertise, influence, and team dynamics
- Cross-functional customer teams brainstorm and
contribute ideas freely as they work with one
another and with the CTE staff
- CTE professionally trains the customer team
to present the solution and accompanying business
case in a compelling manner to customer senior
executives
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- The prototype visualizes the solution ideas
and provides the basis for application deployment
- Daily iterations of the prototype allow rapid
idea incorporation; this flexibility is reflected
in the resulting application, ideal for changing
business environments
- An implementation road map tailored to the
customer's organizational plans shows next steps
to build the solution in independently beneficial
15-week phases, enabling quick capture of the
returns shown in the business case
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- Using the "Right Hand/Left Hand"
framework as well as identifying goals, critical
success factors and lazy assets, CTE assists
and empower the customer to create new competitive
strategies
- During the intense workshop process, CTE teaches
the customer team to develop and present compelling
quantitative and qualitative benefits, costs
analysis, and the deployment roadmap for these
strategies
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