What to do when the entire world is in flux? COVID-19 changed customer behavior overnight, value chains broke, and it put entire sectors on pause. Some changes are short term, while others are irreversible. A crisis challenges us to react and respond. But it also gives us a pivotal moment to rethink how we might create a better future — not just to survive, but to thrive.

We’ve developed a disruption canvas to help you navigate the challenges and identify opportunities and actions to create your game plan.

The world has been turned upside-down – and although some businesses have ballooned, most companies have been disrupted across the board as a result of the pandemic lockdown. So what to do now? Together with our clients across the world, we have identified three phases that can help your company take control of the situation and get ahead – in the short, medium, and long term. ReAct. ReSpond. ReThink. 

If you use it step by step, you will be able to understand your situation, prioritize, and connect tasks and challenges across different parts of your organization and its value chain. 

We made it easy to use, based on a simple logic that allows you to contextualize it to your specific situation. 

It can help you create a shared vocabulary and encourage collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. 

Chop it up, use it to collect your thoughts, collaborate on it or use it to organize a (virtual) workshop. Repeat as your situation evolves. The choice is entirely yours. 

The canvas contains your business, employees, customers and suppliers – and so it will encourage you to be empathetic towards all stakeholders in your organization's eco-system and value chain.

This canvas is ready for you to play with, but we’re happy to walk you through it and discuss how to implement it in your organization.

Get in touch, and someone from our team will get back to you shortly. 

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