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Service overview
Salsa provides access to our most experienced and skillful digital consultants to help you explore your latest idea/opportunity for true digital transformation. Maybe you have the seed of an idea and need help assessing pathways and potential, maybe you have a well-developed concept but need to further understand possible execution paths to verify business benefit, or perhaps you’re thinking you need to reset a particular project but struggling with such an impactful decision.
Salsa will work with you and your stakeholders to facilitate a free two-hour workshop and present findings in a follow-up session.
Think tank workshop
Salsa uses a workshop to explore your opportunity and formulate possible technical and execution approaches. An interactive canvas is used to gather inputs for the problem space, define success and high level roadmaps for success.
The workshop process will be tailored to the particular opportunity or business challenge, however it generally follows the following process:
Discover the opportunity
Explore the problem space
Outline objectives, outcomes and success
Discuss present digital landscape constraints, relevance, options, etc.
Outcome: Distill into a handful of key business requirements
Identify high level strategies
Assess fit of latest digital trends, products and/or options to opportunity, for example:
Application of design systems
Whole-of-government digital platforms
Open solutions - open data, open API
Content API/headless architectures
Resilient and/or high performance architectures
Assess fit of delivery strategy options
Agile delivery with appropriate-sized scope/discovery, build, rollout
Conceptual proof-of-concept/proof-of-value
Lean sprints with continuous assessment/re-assessment of success and hypothesis
Outcome: Compile headline solution approach options
Outcome: Compile headline execution approach
Think tank solution pathway
With the problem space, success criteria and high level approaches agreed in the workshop Salsa compiles possible solution pathways offline ready to present back to you. Salsa is able to make considered choices and informed recommendations that build on the high level solution approaches discussed in the workshop. The general process is as follows:
Formulate pathways
Offline analysis of possible sizing based on understanding of problem, success and possible strategies
Compile one-page strategic roadmap
Document pathway sizing as delivery activities/sprints based on delivery strategies, e.g.:
User research
Discovery
Design
Proof-of-concept/value
Prototypes
Outcome: Design solution approaches and sizing
Present pathways
Presentation of possible pathways via further focused conference call
Iteration if/as required
Next step planning
Outcome: Present considered pathways to success to allow you to formulate next steps
Service benefits
The benefits of the think tank for government service for customers include:
Low investment, high-value assistance with your digital transformation challenges and solutions
Access to experts to enable you and your team to co-create ideas and solutions (let Salsa bring you and your team on a shared journey)
A qualified understanding of fit of digital trends to your problem space — be more certain about opportunities and approaches
Confidence in pathways to capitalise on opportunities
Assurance that an objective, informed and independent assessment will be conducted
Confidence that various options to success will be considered, in particular lean methods will be presented to further assess/validate ideas and opportunities where appropriate
A better appreciation of project delivery methodologies tailored for efficiency and to your needs
Assurance that the initial process will provide an order of magnitude assessment of timeline and costs based on requirements and experience in delivery of similar projects
Early inputs for business cases with minimal investment
Feel encouraged that Salsa can drive a lean process for you and your team to explore ideas
How we can help
Salsa makes available its most experienced consultants to explore your options and opportunities. The workshop will be staffed with Salsa digital experts who have delivered programs and projects across many government jurisdictions and are experts in many facets of digital delivery.
We’ll work with you to compile a high impact Salsa team to facilitate your workshop. Representatives will be included from our leadership team (e.g. Alfred, Paul, Stuart, engagement management team (e.g. Julie) and technical leadership team (e.g. Steve).
If you want to know more, or you’re interested in getting your think tank for government underway please contact us.
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If you want to know more or get your think tank for government underway please contact us.