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