What We Do

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NEW - 2010 - HELLO - THE ARENA FOR CHANGE - ALL THINGS CAN BE SOLVED BY 24 CONVERSATIONS - CHANGING THE WAY THE 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION THINKS & WORKS - An EDITORIAL on our work - How we avoid SOLVING THE WRONG PROBLEM REALLY WELL - How to build A VISION MODEL - MAKING NEW MEANING - What we do IN 10 WORDS OR LESS - Read THE 'PIXAR' OF CONSULTING... - Then delve into our work on THE 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION + New Downloads' or go straight to THE BIG AND MAIN POINTS OF WHAT WE DO or understand WICKED PROBLEMS. Get the THE FACTS ON GROUP PARTNERS and see VISUAL DISPLAYS See 'OUR MISSION' or 'OUR TEAM', understand our tools - 'STRUCTURED VISUAL THINKING™', the 'THE DECISION MANIFESTO' - WINNING BIG BIDS - our approach '4D™' - see which 'CLIENTS' we work for and what they say - 'CLIENT REFERENCES' And then take a tour around - WHAT DRIVES US - OUR TOOLS - OUR CONTEXT and our ABOUT OUR COMPANY If you want to go to either John Caswell's 'Just Think' Blog or - 'Kevin's Blog'. Go To - 'The Group Partners Quotation Archive' - and if you get lost try KEYWORDS or THE HOME PAGE

Friday 10 of September, 2010

Take a breath

GROUP PARTNERS

21st Century. Thinking! The Main Threads "CHANGE THE WAY THE 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION THINKS & WORKS" - DON'T SOLVE THE WRONG PROBLEM REALLY WELL! - ENTERPRISE CLIENTS - BUSINESS CHALLENGE - 10 WORDS OR LESS - MAKING MEANING - THE PIXAR OF CONSULTING - 21st CENTURY TOOLS and PHILOSOPHY & TECHNIQUES - THE 24 CONVERSATIONS Sustainability Dimension - Possibility Deficit Disorder - Energy Based Breakthrough Innovation - The Arena For Change - Living Systems - Group Partners & 4D™ Creating a space to think. 21st Century Organizations need an environment for collaborative conversation and decision. A space designed to create value in real time. Allow a team to breathe, think and challenge. Enabled to break through the pressures and limitation of the everyday. See Language - Integrative Thinking - Pattern Recognition SVT Live™ - The outcome of our work is practical. A strategic plan or road map. Within our systems and documents there is a clear deliverable which enables the whole company to know the direction and sequence of events. See also 4D™ - Acceleration - Applied Visualisation - Edward Tufte - Language - Integrative Thinking - Pattern Recognition - Key Images SVT™ - Structured Visual Thinking is our visual facilitation, conversational technique; a toolset for developing rigor and meaningful solutions - Information Design, Scenarios and Journeys... 4D™ - A thorough - rigorous set of 4 frameworks which are co-created by the leadership team to resolve complex problems by a natural and emergent technique creating innovation and breakthrough value... See The Burning Platform - Integrative Thinking - Biomimicry - Systems Thinking - Value Networks - Design Thinking - GPedia for all the really deep detail Visualism - We are taking the process of critical thinking to new levels - delivering energy and realism to conversations that take place every day but often without conclusion. We do this in the knowledge that the client and the leadership are the main beneficiary. Go to: The Merits or Otherwise of Workshops - Valuable Outcomes... - Outcomes - WorldViews - Vision - Scenarios - Innovating Your Business System - 4D™, Structured Visual Thinking, Expectation Setting

• We get familiar with as much background information we can.
• We look at the context with the clients eyes
• We understand the win themes, the solution approach and refine the context. **
• We work with the teams remotely on calls and via all forms of communication to get comfortable on all aspects of the program.
• We explore the teams understanding and rationale for the pursuit
• We agree a valid ‘Exam Question’ - one that will work for the team sessions then perhaps a further one for the client phase.
• We build stimulus material and any necessary homework, preparation or any other requirements to demonstrate thinking to the client. Ensure complete readiness.
• We may create a Persistent Architecture™ or other ‘containers’ to illustrate rigor and initiative ahead of team or client meetings. Design the progam
• We will arrive ahead of any session days to get the area prepared and get initial structures in place.
• We will work with focus teams to get the team aligned.
• We will become a part of the focus team for the duration of the assignment
• We will work with focus team to get the team to really weave any strategic/specific approach into the clients business.
• We will demonstrate innovation and differentiation through the application of visualization.
• We will challenge and encourage different thinking
• We capture and synthesize all related information to the structures and the conversations we encourage.
• We establish themes and clues for creating a connection with the client
• We start to build a fully integrated written record of the development work.
• We may create a marketing positioning for the focus along with the Value Propositions that will emerge.
• We will work with the focus team to start to develop a hypothesis for a solution or solution approach.
• We will choreograph client events and produce high impact presentational material for use in interactive sessions
• We develop supplementary images and frameworks outside of the sessions themselves, often overnight and ready for the client sessions (as required)
• We may build a Decision Tool and criteria based frameworks to enable the client to make better choices.
• We facilitate or augment the sessions themselves as required to create a fully validated storyboard to whatever level of granularity is required.
• After each stage of the process we will generate high resolution images of the work done.
• We will ‘Brand’ the images and all the components of the image appropriately and as required.
• We will develop small vignettes and ‘part’ scenarios that emerge in the overall framework. These will tell specific stories in their own right.
• We may develop sophisticated digital images for more formal presentation
• After each session we generate a complete and written narrative of the work done so far.
• We may help build very large scale repeatable presentation support for Orals and other presentation requirements.
• We may build an Executive Summary.
• We may build a Workbook with further tasks built into structured templates
• We will help suggest images and ‘parts’ to support main proposals
• We may create a digital executable application
• We will create a Group Drive space with secure access to the images and the record for the duration of the assignment.