As the country’s pre-eminent agricultural research & development corporation, AgriFutures Australiaworks with the agricultural industry on meeting the needs of rural Australia. Operating through its Industry Advisory Panels, each panel focusses on the collective research and development agenda specific to their levied industry. SJS Strategy has been brought on board by AgriFutures Australia to help ensure that their industry panels’ strategic plans are fit for the future. Through the Scenario Planning Sprint, SJS is assisting the panels – with input from their fellow industry stakeholders – through the co-development of scenarios to inform the build and/or pressure-test their forward-looking five-year industry plans.
The ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ will change entire systems of production, management andgovernance. To prepare the ASX-listed miner for this changing world, the company’s ExecutiveCommittee established the 4.0 Pioneer Lab to help Rio Tinto move firmly into the 21st century.Armed with this mandate, a team of six hand-picked emerging leaders from across the globe interviewed numerous experts ranging from technology to geopolitics and from manufacturing to sustainability. To turn the vast trove of information into actionable insights, the Pioneer Lab team engaged SJS Strategy to co-develop comprehensive scenarios of the organisation’s global future operating environment. The patterns that emerged, and the new and credible insights gained, underpinned the development of their adaptive strategy.
Building on a 140+ year heritage, the new CEO of this leading peak industry body wanted to make sure that its staff, members and stakeholders continue to embody and represent a forward-looking building and construction industry. Using the ‘Annual Engagement Day’ as its first major opportunity, MBAV held a Taster Masterclass organised by SJS Strategy. The masterclass collectively explored the future of the sector, created a shared understanding of the ensuing challenges and opportunities, and kick-started a structured dialogue about the future with its staff, members and stakeholders in a safe and inclusive manner.
One of Australia’s largest universities, RMIT aims to help shape the world through research, innovation and teaching, while creating transformative experiences for its students. As a central part of the university, the Research & Innovation (R&I) portfolio helps bridge the gap between research and impact. To meaningfully avoid ‘business-as-usual’ planning and optimise its five-year strategy for real-world impact, the R&I portfolio engaged SJS Strategy to facilitate its Scenario Planning Sprint, which brought together its key staff and stakeholders to develop scenarios for the future of research and innovation in order to inform the build of its strategy.
The Alpha Group – a collective of 20 self-licenced financial planning firms – comes together annually to share insights and learn. Recognising that the industry is changing and that the future will require different products, services, expertise and partnerships, their annual conference was aimed at igniting this conversation. Conducting the Taster Masterclass at their conference, SJS Strategy helped the participants collectively consider a range of extreme, yet plausible and relevant futures for the Australian financial planning industry, while simultaneously helping the participants apply the scenario planning principles on how to successfully navigate a changing and uncertain future.
As an accomplished leadership coach, Michelle Sales coaches and trains leaders in industries ranging from financial services to sports management to help them lift performance and maximise their impact. With Covid-19 changing the way that teams work and programs are delivered, Michelle and her team wanted to incorporate these impactful yet uncertain changes in their strategic planning. To do this, SJS Strategy assisted the team to conduct a business model analysis to create a shared understanding of how the organisation creates, delivers and captures value. The insights from this analysis were used to identify how Michelle Sales’ business model might be impacted by a range of relevant and plausible futures. The outcomes allowed Michelle and the team to create structure in uncertainty about the future and to make sense of it, thereby empowering confident decision-making in their strategic planning.
As the government authority responsible for managing and the longer-term protection of this Australian icon, the Authority’s Board wants the organisation to prepare for a changing future. Working with the Authority’s senior leadership team to include the wide range of perspectives ranging from strategy to field management, legal, science, and finance, SJS Strategy assisted the team to develop a range of relevant and plausible future scenarios and to identify the implications (opportunities and challenges) that these scenarios present the Authority with. The leadership team presented its work to the Board as part its strategy day, with the Board and leadership team collectively generating strategic options for the Authority so it can continue to protect and manage the environment, biodiversity and heritage values of the Great Barrier Reef.