Assess readiness in three key areas: technological integration, financial resources, and business scope. Craft a story about how assets will be activated to meet challenges in the environment and open space for interaction to build buy-in and increase the accuracy of your direction.

Engage leaders around how the plan advances the identity experience of the enterprise by encouraging meaning making around the transition. Describe what changes in practices will be required and empowered, and the message cycling leaders can use to increase readiness, energy, and adoption.

Align solution production with project management resources (both internal and external). Empower project leaders to engage organizational leaders and alpha users on the levels of project story, assets, and environmental factors at critical points in the process.

As alpha versions become ready for testing, begin development of a self-supporting user community who will create and refine value-maximizing assets as the solution launches and grows: support culture, documentation, training systems, promotion strategies, integration tools, etc. Create a rhythm of top-level engagement with this community for continuous collaboration on a cultural and strategic level.

Roll out your solution progressively, from your existing user group to early adopters defined by a high level of belief in the story of the solution (high expectation + high tolerance). Measure value with each group as the roll out spreads, providing clarity on practices that maximize the value of both the solution and the user community. As the solution, usage, and support are perfected, expand to more distant groups in terms of expectation and tolerance.

As ROI data emerges, share with all stakeholders and engage in dialog on resources required for maintenance and further development. Maintain the community's voice in this process so soft assets and intangible benefits are included in analysis.

Develop or acquire scalable mock-ups and models and evaluate with alpha users from a cross-section of supporting and deploying business areas. Measure experience and confidence against key strategic objectives and overall story.

Match feedback from alpha mock-up process to available solution options and do cost-to-benefit analysis of type, source, delivery, and promotion strategies. Return results to full community of leaders and alpha users for ownership and accuracy-building dialog.

Use a small-to-big approach to overall management, producing the solution(s) as modules that relate through standards-compliant connections. Pass modules between production groups for rigorous and comprehensive testing and collect feedback to inform movement towards BETA/RC and capture learning to add to the growing community assets.

Match feedback from production and the user community with value creation in the overall business model and deploy or develop connective components that integrate the new technology and emerging user community into strategic and cultural processes, management methods, business metrics, financial tools, etc. Grow a culture of integration and value nurturing by maintaining openness, clarity, and consistency in all initiatives.

As the reach and reliability of your solution grow with use, focus aggressively on smart management of the solution. Pay special attention to harmonizing user experience, infrastructure and solution capacities, and efficiencies of scale.

Work cross-sectionally to expand the solution's use across business units, user groups, and the enterprise scope by adding adaptive modules. Link leadership into meaningful data generated by the solution in terms of solution adoption, promotion, and value. Loop the needs and lessons learned into the continual development of the solution.