Creating the conditions for fast, confident pivots.
We enable organizations to rapidly design and implement new strategies in response to disruption, new technologies and market shifts.
From disruption to direction
Ludic Pivot brings together leadership cohorts and stakeholder groups—from senior teams of 20 to larger groups of up to 250—in state-of-the-art decision-making environments to understand the uncertainty facing your markets, make decisions quickly, and put in place everything needed to shift the organization rapidly.
The Pivot Process
01. Pivot Discovery Lab
Understand the shift
A focused two-hour research and discussion experience designed to help leaders and teams make sense of the situation.
Hosted virtually or in person via SmartLab, the Pivot Discovery Lab helps participants explore risks, opportunities, possible responses, and the strategic choices ahead.
It can also draw on Ludic’s wider Discovery Labs to explore themes such as AI, sustainability, leadership, customer engagement, people change, and future operating models.
Hosted virtually or in person via SmartLab, the Pivot Discovery Lab helps participants explore risks, opportunities, possible responses, and the strategic choices ahead.
It can also draw on Ludic’s wider Discovery Labs to explore themes such as AI, sustainability, leadership, customer engagement, people change, and future operating models.
Outputs
- Shared understanding of the challenge
- Key risks and opportunities
- Initial solutions and hypotheses
- Priorities for deeper exploration
- Focus for the Pivot Event
02. Design & Decision Event
Make the decisions that move the organization forward
A two-day design and decision-making event, delivered in person, virtually, or as a hybrid experience through SmartLab.
The event brings leaders, experts, teams, and stakeholders together to test options, build consensus, design the strategy, and create a practical roadmap for implementation.
The event brings leaders, experts, teams, and stakeholders together to test options, build consensus, design the strategy, and create a practical roadmap for implementation.
Outputs
- Aligned strategic direction
- Leadership consensus
- Defined priorities and workstreams
- Implementation roadmap
- Engagement narrative
- Measures of success
03. Engagement & Alignment
Turn the pivot into action
A pivot only works when people understand it, believe in it, and know how to act on it.
SmartLab powers a longer engagement and alignment initiative to roll out the strategy across the organization through learning, resources, games, training, toolkits, discussion spaces, and communications.
SmartLab powers a longer engagement and alignment initiative to roll out the strategy across the organization through learning, resources, games, training, toolkits, discussion spaces, and communications.
Outputs
- Organization-wide awareness
- Learning and enablement resources
- Leader and manager toolkits
- Games and simulations
- Feedback and insight
- Ongoing engagement
Built for moments that demand movement
Use Ludic Pivot to respond to—
- Market disruption
- Emerging technologies
- AI adoption and automation
- Competitive threats
- Changing customer expectations
- Operating model transformation
- Leadership and culture shifts
- Mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring
- New strategic priorities
Why Ludic Pivot?
Fast and focused
Compress the time between insight, decision, and implementation.
Built around people
Create alignment by involving the right voices in shaping the way forward.
Compress the time between insight, decision, and implementation.
Built around people
Create alignment by involving the right voices in shaping the way forward.
Powered by SmartLab
Start online, accelerate through high-impact events, and continue through organization-wide activation.
Scalable by design
Engage a leadership team, a business unit, or thousands of people across the enterprise.
Start online, accelerate through high-impact events, and continue through organization-wide activation.
Scalable by design
Engage a leadership team, a business unit, or thousands of people across the enterprise.
The digital platform for delivering rapid change at scale.
SmartLab is the digital experience platform that enables high-impact collaboration, and organization-wide alignment through learning, engagement, resources, discussion, and insight.
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Discovery labs
Immersive experiences for exploring the future.
Discovery Labs are immersive, facilitator-led sessions that help organizations explore emerging trends, technologies, and strategic challenges. Through expert insight, collaboration, and interactive tools, teams learn, innovate, and prototype actionable solutions. Hosted virtually or in person via SmartLab.
