Solutions Experience Center
Workshops & Briefings
Customized engagements at AHEAD’s Solutions Experience Centers deliver tailored perspectives to your business for today and the future.
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TESTIMONIALS
The AHEAD Executive Briefing I attended was first class. The team was exceptional and demonstrated a deep and unique knowledge about the people, process, and tools needed to run IT in a digital world.
Associate VP, IT Strategy & Innovation
Your team did a remarkable job of helping our team understand how technology will impact our platform, customers, and success in the years to come.
CIO & CTO
THE AHEAD EXPERIENCE
Exploring the Art of the Possible
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Executive Briefings
- Topics curated for your organization’s priorities and challenges within the context of how emerging trends and the technology landscape stand to affect these issues
- Priorities-driven dialogue led by hands-on AHEAD practitioners who are strategists and thought leaders, sharing best practices and recommendations with proof of value
- Highly contextualized post-briefing report summarizes key areas of focus defined during the briefing and alignment on next steps to tackle priorities incrementally over the near term
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Visioning Workshops
- Visioning Experience sessions for a particular solution space are facilitated by AHEAD principal consultants and key advisors in conjunction with accelerated assessment and development roadmaps
- AHEAD proprietary frameworks are used to create a vision realization plan, including a baseline assessment, high-level roadmap, risk mitigation strategies, and critical success factors
- Roadmap discussions are led by an AHEAD Field CTO, discussing your current state and unique requirements within the purview of AHEAD maturity models
- Post-workshop report summarizes current and future states, opportunity roadmap, and recommended priorities to produce business outcomes
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Technical Briefings
- Ideally suited for organizations challenged to stay current on the latest digital innovations and trends
- Sessions take a deep dive into a specific AHEAD area of expertise and the cutting-edge technologies just hitting the market
- Collaborative environment with AHEAD engineers to review and refine your technology roadmaps and boost your team’s alignment in future planning
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State-of-the-Art Lab Experience
Plan a visit to our newly minted lab outside of Chicago, an interactive setting where the latest digital technologies are applied. Or piggyback off a downtown Chicago briefing for a multi-day immersive experience.
- New product demonstrations tailored to your interests
- Sandboxes for deeper exploration and hands-on access
- Secure test environment for your team’s new or upgraded configurations
- Stress-testing actual “proof of concept” solutions that mimic your workloads
EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE AGENDA THEMES
Gain access to meaningful dialog, collaboration, innovation, and thought leadership, all baked into AHEAD briefings and workshop. Agendas are curated from a list of themed and a la carte topics tailored to specific roles in senior management. Participants will walk away with a robust go-forward strategy to apply learnings to their business to drive innovation and achieve measurable results.
- Removing Developer Friction to Drive Innovation
- Setting a Strategy & Execution Plan for VMware / Broadcom
- Modernizing Cybersecurity Programs for Emerging Threats
- Cloud Strategy – Cloud Smart
- Leveraging Your ServiceNow Investment
- Network Lifecycle Management & Modernization
- Data/AI/ML — Unlocking Insights
- Removing Technical Debt & Driving Modernization
- Establishing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy
FEATURED RESOURCES
Whitepaper
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