Map Where You Are to Get To What's Next

Discover how to define value, vision, direction, and alignment for your platform strategy through rapid, collaborative mapping in this 16-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2024. Learn to set targets, understand needs, and connect opportunities to action, transforming performance, alignment, confidence, happiness, and quality. Explore techniques to visualize and assess current value creation and flow, revealing opportunities for platform capabilities that support better outcomes. Gain insights on building and sharing your vision, saving hours of toil weekly, and confidently investing in platform capabilities with the greatest impact. Key takeaways include beginning with the end in mind, understanding how target outcomes, value streams, and dependencies affect flow, boosting alignment and clarity through collaborative mapping, building actionable data-driven maps, and using maps to make confident decisions on what to tackle and how.