SOLTECH Next Gen¶
What this site is¶
A working vision for what SOLTECH becomes over the next two years, and a set of concrete strategic changes we can choose to pursue to get there.
The industry changed underneath us. Not gradually, and not in ways a better version of our current playbook will answer. What our clients need has changed. What they value has changed. How they find us has changed. How software gets built has changed. Responding to that with incremental adjustments to what we already do is the one approach guaranteed to fail.
So this starts over. It asks what SOLTECH would look like if we designed it today, for the market we actually have, and then breaks that picture into decisions a leadership team can make.
How it is organized¶
[Video walkthrough: link to SharePoint recording]
The left navigation holds a few orientation pages, then Focus Areas: the parts of the business where something needs to change, such as Project Delivery or Sales. Each focus area has an index page with a short overview and a table of Strategies.
A Strategy is a strategic change we are recommending. Each one has its own page, and every strategy page is written the same way:
- Strategy Overview, what we are trying to achieve
- Motivating Factors, why this is on the table
- Solution Approach, the recommended approach
- Tactical Changes, what would actually change, split into Structure, Process and People, each rated None, Minimal, Moderate or Significant
- Additional Details, anything else worth knowing
The ratings exist so you can see the size of a change before reading a word of the detail, and so that strategies from completely different parts of the business can be compared side by side. How to Read This Site defines what each rating level means.
Where to start¶
| If you want | Read |
|---|---|
| The picture, in five minutes | Where This Is Going |
| The evidence behind it | Why Now |
| What the ratings mean | How to Read This Site |
| The full set of areas and strategies | Focus Areas |
What is being asked of you¶
Not approval. Reactions.
This is a set of ideas competing for a small amount of attention, capital and nerve. The useful response is which ones you believe in, which ones you think are wrong, and which ones you think we are not being bold enough about. React to specific strategies rather than to the whole.