How Long Does It Take?

Good question. Got any string?

If doing a "one-shot" session with a group of stakeholders and all you're aiming to produce is a Needs Matrix, it takes about a day.

Having said that, the quickest we've seen it done is 4 hours.

You can make the session shorter by encouraging the participants to come with some decisions already made. Such as:

• organisation goals and weightings
• "customer" types and weightings

However, we don't recommend it. Much of the value of a Strategenie stakeholder session is in the discussion around precisely these subject areas. Also, not everyone is great at describing a goal and the facilitator has an important role to play: simplifying sometimes complex business-speak and sometimes as an agent provocateur.