Capability building for one of the top 5 IT services companies in the world
Objective
- Building business orientation without undermining core IT strengths
- Building alignment with the new Transformation Leadership team
- Maintain engagement of all stakeholders throughout the assignment
- Governance with respect to the assignment
Design
- Half day process to agree success criteria., defining overall capability clusters which needed to be addressed & commitment on leadership hours required
- Design broken into 70-20-10 learning model, with built in participant selection mechanism
- 3 blocks of five day workshops co-created and jointly delivered with client team, delivered over 6 months time period
- ALPs (Action Learning Projects) identified, linked to business objectives and mentors from the client team
Impact
- 100% ALP completion with 60% converted into larger projects
- Average conversion of 25% as secondment to transformation projects from every batch
- Positive and high scores on impact surveys and focus groups by participants and Managers
- Acknowledgement by the Global Leader about successful impact of the assignment
- Program became mandated development intervention for High potential CXO-1&2
Critical Success Factor- Aligning all the leaders that the solution is aimed to enable IT leaders to link IT solutions to business variables and not creating a pool of business transformation consultants