A facilitated session built on the Global Growth Canvas. Half a day for a single region, a full day for a global screen, on site or remote. You leave with a ranked shortlist and a research brief, not a set of photographs of a wall.
The canvas is free and works perfectly well on a wall with your own team. Plenty of organisations run it themselves and get value from it. What an outside facilitator changes is the politics of the room rather than the mechanics of the tool.
Internal sessions tend to resolve toward whoever is most senior or most certain. Constraints get softened because raising them feels obstructive. Entry mode gets assumed because that is how it was done last time. A facilitator with no stake in the answer can ask the obvious question, and can keep asking it.
The second thing we bring is pattern recognition. We have run the search and entry work behind this canvas in more than forty countries, which usually means we can tell when a block is wrong — when a coverage claim does not survive contact with a warehouse list, or when a registration timeline is being quoted from an optimistic memory.
Run on site or remotely on a shared whiteboard. Remote works better than most people expect for this format, because the canvas does the structuring that a room usually has to do for itself.
The single biggest predictor of whether a session produces something usable is who is sitting there. A room of commercial people will produce an optimistic canvas and a shortlist that cannot be delivered.
Indicative rather than rigid. The shape holds; the timings move depending on how much disagreement surfaces, and disagreement surfacing is the point.
The footprint under consideration and who would be in the room is enough to start. We will come back with a format, a date and a price. Or take the canvas and run it yourself — it is free, and that is a perfectly good outcome.