When you address process, quality, culture and any type of change, your chances of success increase when your team commits themselves. In my experience, visions and strategies are more innovative when the approach is collaborative rather than directive.
Metaphor Mapping provides tools that will give you better results by engaging all stakeholders than you could achieve by forcing even the most enlightened ideas on your organization:
The Research Center has operated since 1987. It started with the recognition, pioneered by others, that metaphors and visual map-building held tremendous power to align people– especially in challenging circumstances. Cross-cultural organization problems in U.N. agencies and European corporate business needs, especially supply chain optimization were the first applications. TQM, OD and culture change followed, mainly in the U.S.