Episode 013
Discovery workshops: a breakthrough tool for B2B platform rollouts and online sales strategy
Why a Discovery workshop before a B2B platform rollout decides whether the budget gets spent well: 12 goals and six concrete benefits explained.
Discovery workshops are the stage clients would most like to skip, and according to Michał Zabielski, they’re exactly what decides whether a B2B platform budget gets spent well.
What Discovery actually settles
The workshop separates a genuine business need from an assumed solution, sets measurable goals, maps the ecosystem of systems to integrate, and splits features into must-haves and nice-to-haves. It also covers process analysis, risk assessment, a data and SEO migration plan, and even tests whether the two sides can actually work well together.
Six benefits that follow
- A shared project vision across everyone involved on the client side.
- A real budget instead of a number pulled out of thin air.
- Changes made at the design stage, which cost a fraction of fixing them after launch.
- A wish list turned into an implementation plan, ordered by priority.
Zabielski points out that skipping Discovery usually ends in “a wasted budget on a platform nobody uses”, teams often underestimate how much weight integration or extra logistics processes carry until a workshop puts a name on them. Hence the MVP recommendation: the platform solves the core problem first, and the return from that funds the next round of features.
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