Successful change leaders focus on what people care about at work. Flying blind is simply too risky and expensive. Without insight into how and what people think about the change initiatives that affect them, it is impossible for change to be successful. This is how one change leader expresses it:  

When strategy is a purely top-down exercise, it is doomed to fail.

Engaging employees in the strategy work and leveraging their expertise on the other hand, is a recipe for making strategy much more likely to succeed.

This is how one leader expresses it: 

Organizations who use Qvest experience growth in curiosity and agility – by nurturing the employees’ questioning habits, they are changing the culture. And by changing the culture in a data-driven way with Qvest, they enable better performance.

The testimonial below is from a municipality in Denmark where they have deployed Qvest as a tool in their journey towards becoming a more citizen-centered public organization.

By involving employees in developing your strategy you are laying the foundation for successful execution of your strategy. And front-line experience is invaluable when it comes to making viable strategic choices and setting direction.

If you have ever worked in a large organization, you know that the Peter Drucker quote, culture eats strategy for breakfast is true. The answer is not to focus on culture instead of strategy, rather it is to make culture a co-creator of strategy in your organization. Here is how a Qvest user sees that happening:

In February 2020 I gave this online demo for the Hacking HR community. If you want to get a 10 min tour of Qvest, this is your show:

Corporate offsites and leadership summits are usually key to keeping up strategic momentum in companies – so what can you do when you cannot meet in person? Below is our recipe for how you can use Qvest to replace your in-person events with a virtual process and still keep your strategic momentum.