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From ambiguity to action
The one-day workshop that gets leaders aligned, decisions made, and a roadmap you can act on straight away.
You know something needs to change. You're just not sure where to start.
Most organisations don't lack ambition, they lack alignment. The challenge isn't that teams don't have ideas. It's that those ideas are fragmented across departments, leadership levels, and competing priorities. Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving in the same direction.
Sound familiar?
- You have a complex challenge but no agreed definition of the problem
- Your leadership team has different views on priorities and what success looks like
- You've been talking about a transformation for months — but haven't made a decision
- You know the current state isn't working, but the future state feels too vague to act on
That's exactly what the Discovery Accelerator is designed to solve.
A structured day that does what months of meetings can't
The Discovery Accelerator is a structured, expertly facilitated workshop that moves your team from ambiguity to an agreed vision and delivery pathway — in a single day.
It's not a conference. It's not a strategy offsite. It's a creative, hands-on working session where your team does the thinking, and our facilitators create the conditions for your best ideas to surface, collide, and become something actionable.
Using sketching, voting, and storytelling, every voice is heard. We balance solo thinking, small-group collaboration, and full-group discussion so you leave with outcomes that reflect the full intelligence of your team, not just the loudest voices in the room.
Our four-phased framework
Every Discovery follows a proven structure tailored to your context.
Phase 1: Alignment
We ensure key stakeholders agree on the purpose, goals, scope, and success measures of the work, and how it connects to your organisational strategy. Everyone leaves this phase with the same problem definition and priorities.
Phase 2: Current State
We build a shared, evidence-based picture of how things work today — your processes, people, technology, pain points, and strengths. Every decision we make from here is grounded in reality, not assumption.
Phase 3: Future State
We define what "good" looks like: the desired experiences, capabilities, processes, and outcomes your organisation is working toward. This becomes the target vision that guides design and decision-making.
Phase 4: Pathway
We turn the vision into a practical roadmap — with initiatives, sequencing, timelines, owners, and measures. You leave knowing exactly how to move from current to future state in realistic, manageable steps.
Common challenges we address
We've seen these challenges before. We know how to move through them.
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Legacy technology
Legacy technology
Outdated systems create inefficiency, inhibit innovation, and introduce cybersecurity and compliance risks. We help you map a realistic path to modernisation.
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Cost Constraints
Cost Constraints
Maintaining legacy infrastructure can consume up to 75% of IT spend, leaving little room for new investment. We help you prioritise where to focus first.
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Internal Delivery Challenges
Internal Delivery Challenges
Teams struggle to balance day-to-day operations with the need to evolve and innovate. We create the space and structure to make progress on both.
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Siloed data and processes
Siloed data and processes
Fragmented information flows and bottlenecks slow collaboration and informed decision-making. We surface the patterns and design a more connected future state.
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Rising Customer Expectations
Rising Customer Expectations
People expect speed, personalisation, and reliability — but old platforms make it hard to deliver consistently. We help you define what great looks like and how to get there.
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Keeping Pace With Emerging Technology
Keeping Pace With Emerging Technology
AI and other emerging technologies require ongoing investment and reskilling. We help you determine where to focus efforts first so you capture real value, not just noise.
Everything you need, before, during, and after
Workshop Prep Before the day, we conduct stakeholder interviews, design a bespoke agenda, and prepare all materials. We come ready. Your team comes ready. The day hits the ground running.
Full-Day Facilitated Session A structured, high-energy workshop delivering all four phases guided by expert facilitators who know how to draw out the best thinking in any room.
Follow-Up Summary & Playback Within one week of the session, you receive documented outcomes, clearly defined plans, and confirmed next steps packaged for sharing with your exec team, your board, or your delivery partners.
You won't leave with a deck. You'll leave with direction.
Strategic Clarity A shared definition of the problem space and scope, stakeholder alignment on goals and priorities, and a clear vision of what "good" looks like.
Actionable Insights An evidence-based understanding of your current state — processes, people, technology, pain points, and strengths — with prioritised opportunities and risks ready for validation.
A Delivery Roadmap A high-level 3–12 month roadmap with initiatives, sequencing, and timelines. Defined owners, quick wins, and pilots to build momentum from day one.
Reusable Artefacts A one-page problem space and insights summary, future-state sketches, diagrams, and journey maps, and a playback pack ready to share with executives, teams, and partners.
Choose the scope that fits your challenge
Not every challenge is the same size. The Discovery Accelerator scales to match the complexity of what you're working on.
Feature / Validation Discovery
Minimal scope, lowest complexity
Ideal for validating a single feature, process, or hypothesis before committing to a full build.
Product / Capability Uplift Discovery
Mid-level scope and complexity
Ideal for designing improvement across a domain, product, or set of connected processes.
Transformative / Roadmap Discovery
End-to-end scope, highest complexity
Ideal for shaping a whole-of-business or enterprise-wide transformation — where the stakes are high and alignment across the organisation is critical.
Not sure which is right for you? Let's chat about it.
What our clients say
Our strategy and planning workshop yesterday was a resounding success — the energy in the room was awesome, and it really showed in the outcomes we achieved. We made real progress on the things that matter.
Mahi Tahi Collective
Ready to turn ambiguity to action?
Whether you're facing a complex transformation, a product decision, or a strategic crossroads, the Discovery Accelerator gives your team the clarity and confidence to move forward — without the months of analysis. Let's start with a conversation.