Collaboration: Fake it ’til you make it
Problem When new to the process, we often quickly get to a point where we intellectually know the right course of action, but cannot back it up with…
Execution: Making the Solution Last Past the Last Meeting
Problem Solutions in themselves are of little use unless correctly applied or implemented. Because of competing priorities, lack of sustained…
Self Organizing Teams
Problem People will not be fully engaged to a topic they don’t feel passionate about or feel they are being forced into. They will announce that they…
The value in indirection
Problem Frequently we go at a problem in headlong attack, deploying resources in a frontal assault on the details of the issue directly before us,…
Iteration, Iteration, Iteration
Problem Trying to materialize a perfect solution is difficult and frustrating at best—one cannot just write it out as if taking dictation. Normal…
Lateral thinking/Generative learning
Problem It is hard to understand the value of SCAN, of having all the toys, books, and other “non-business” orientated things, of spending time in…
Simulations, Modeling, Elevating Collaboration
Problem Creating a future is extraordinarily difficult to do without experiencing it. You can’t know how to drive a car until you drive one. Humans…
Metaphorical patterns of discovery
Problem Organizations grapple with moving forward by tying to understand the barriers and issues they have to overcome. These are usually met…
Intentional experience—design work with wholeness of experience in mind
Problem We sometimes design events by NOT designing them. How easy it is to choose modules, themes or even our words and actions through rote or…
The unsayable must be said—overcoming the tyranny of the open secret
Problem Proper context for the application of any solution can only be accomplished when the real underlying issues, and critical success factors are…