Chapter 02

Practices

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9 practice areas of Journey Management

80

Total respondants

28

Countries

10+

Experience range

A total of 80 participants qualified for this section of the report. To qualify, respondents were required to complete all nine practice areas, evaluating practice relevance and effectiveness, as well as the frequency of related challenges. Incomplete responses were excluded from the final analysis

Practice area 8

Identifying strategic opportunities across Journeys

Creating shared language and conceptual understanding ….


Avg relevance 2.01–3.98 · Avg effectiveness 2.67–3.72
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Visualising organisational interdependencies
Evolving the operating model and enabling infrastructure
Building an evidence-led performance narrative
Aligning journeys to organisational strategy
Communicating value and impact
RelevanceEffectivenessAverage

Survey respondents first rated the relevance of each practice (0–5, from 'not relevant at all' to 'very relevant'). For practices scoring 3 or higher, respondents scored their organisation's effectiveness in applying them (0–5, from 'not effective at all' to 'very effective'). The chart above shows both the range and average scores for relevance and effectiveness across each practice.

Insights

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Methods, tools and activities that make up this practice area

Identifying growth & strategic opportunities
Identifying optimisation & risks
Optimising stakeholder value & relationships
Communications
Demonstrating & tracking realised value

Methods, tools and activities that make up this practice area

Journey literacy
Internal mapping services
Co-creating & distributing ownership
Integration of practices
Gaining and retaining the buy-in of participating teams
Defining tasks and responsibilities
Reviewing quality
Piloting and trialling

What challenges do organisations experience when mapping dynamic journeys?

What challenges do organisations experience
when mapping dynamic journeys?

The following challenges summarise the core themes identified across participant interviews. Survey participants rated the frequency of each challenge. The graph below compares average scores by different stages of practice:

The following challenges summarise the core themes identified across participant interviews. Survey participants rated the frequency of each challenge,
with average scores compared by practice stage below.

Emerging practicesEstablishedLeading
‘North star’ orstrategic ambiguityMental modelresistanceConflicting planningcycles and practicesDefining andmeasuring valueInvestment inertia

Insights

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Challenges that organisations experience

Defining & measuring value
'North star' or strategic ambiguity
Conflicting organisational planning cycles and practices
Investment Inertia
Mental model resistance

METHOD NOTES

How we measured sleep
Who took part, and who we missed

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