Roadmaps and Roadmapping    Technology Futures    Strategy        Roadmaps and Roadmapping Roadmapping enables a team to plan and execute a path to achieve their objectives, just as a roadmap enables a traveler to decide among alternative routes to reach a destination. Roadmaps link strategy to future actions and explicitly incorporate a plan for needed capabilities and technologies to be in place at the right times. Product-Technology Roadmaps link market and competitive strategy to product plans to technology strategy – with quantitative targets and plans for achieving objectives. Industry Roadmaps provide a shared industry vision and the path for the industry to achieve that vision. Science and Technology Roadmaps enable teams to link applications, technical challenges, and technology development for science-driven technologies. Capability Roadmaps, a new roadmap format, help service organizations -- such as manufacturing or IT -- create plans for future capabilities and technologies to meet the needs of customers or clients. A facilitated roadmapping process directs a team to set their strategy based on the most important market/customer needs and to determine linked product drivers, product feature evolution, and technology plans. The roadmap includes future actions needed to implement the strategy along with the key risks. The roadmap serves as a guide during their journey, allowing the team to recognize and act on events that require a change in direction. The roadmap also communicates the plan to decision makers, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. In an organization, roadmaps provide the basis for integrated management of product and technology portfolios. Our capabilities: Lead teams to develop roadmaps using proven, facilitated processes. Train teams in effective roadmapping skills and techniques in case-based settings. Design and implement roadmap-based portfolio management and technology strategy processes. More on Roadmapping: A short essay: Ten Reasons to Roadmap A new structure: Capability Roadmapping Architecture: A common roadmap framework Metrics: Measuring the Value of Roadmapping: A Roadmapping Scorecard The Roadmap Template A roadmap includes four major sections. Drivers link the sections connecting the product and technology plans to the market and competitive strategy.

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