Strategic Solutions Lab
Find the right problem. Create the right conditions. Move with confidence.
Most strategy work rushes to solve the problem in front of it. The symptom, not the cause. A Strategic Solutions Lab helps leadership teams step back, name the real challenge, and align around it before committing time, money and people to a direction.
Using the Creative Intelligence methodology, teams reach the clarity, alignment and momentum that conventional strategy processes often struggle to find, on the decisions that matter most.
The Creative Intelligence Approach
Every Lab follows the CI Cycle, our 3M Framework. It is a structured method that helps a team think clearly together before it acts. The Cycle moves through three phases.
Meaning. Understand what matters. Clarify the present state, surface every perspective, map the tensions, and define the right problem to solve.
Making. Shape what could exist. Explore possibilities, test strategic directions, and develop responses that fit the organisation as it really is.
Momentum. Move what can move. Turn insight into aligned decisions, practical pathways and committed action.
Three phases, one outcome: clarity where complexity had stalled progress.
The focus isn’t generating more options. It’s finding the right problem to solve, together — then building the alignment to move on it with confidence.
Two ways to run a Lab
Both formats run the same method. They differ in scope, depth, and the number of loops it takes to get there.
Decision Accelerators
Move from discussion to direction
Resolve a contained but important question with speed and confidence.
Format
One intensive session or a tight sprint
Cycle
A single focused loop
Best for
- Stalled initiatives
- Competing stakeholder views
- Priority setting and project direction
- Team alignment and next-step clarity under uncertainty
Large Strategic Challenges
When the issue is bigger than the plan
Shape organisational direction on questions where progress has slowed or alignment has frayed.
Format
A multi-session programme
Cycle
Multiple loops, wider and deeper
Best for
- Strategy resets and transformation programmes
- Organisational redesign and cultural change
- Innovation direction and positioning
- Cross-functional misalignment and major investment calls
What your team leaves with
01
A clearly defined problem, agreed across the team
02
Alignment on direction and priorities
03
A practical pathway to action
04
Momentum where progress had stalled
