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Added for You - Business Vision and Purpose - Seeing the Future
Do you have an idea for a private clothing label that will make millions? Does the idea involve a need for trendy fashionable tees and tanks that you will then alter and style into sellable product? You know what you want to do with the blank shirts, but the challenge lies in finding…or making…blank apparel that is “cool” enough to meet your standards. There are two solutions.Solution 1: Lease an empty warehouse. Import fabrics. Purchase cutting machines and sewing machines. Hire staff to design the blanks, cut the fabric, and sew the garments. Hire staff to manage your other staff. Waa-la…blank garments.Solution 2: Do a little research on the internet, possibly talk to a few people who have faced your challenge with their own business, and then purchase your ready-to-alter trendy blank apparel f
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many model
Start by ensuring you have enough information and data available at your fingertips. That's the secret.Here are the steps to Creating a Sales and Marketing Strategy quickly and effectively:Step 1: Take an A4 size of paper and title it Sales and Marketing Strategy.Then rule it with two horizontal lines across about one inch down from top and two vertical lines to form three equal columns. Title these columns, Channels, Strategy, How often.Step 2: Under Channels write down as many strategies that you can think of for contacting. Write down (in this exercise) a minimum of 4. Let’s say one of those channels is "Contacting prospects.” Under Strategy write down at least four strategies you could use to contact prospects. For example:Internet, Advertising, Letters, Telephone calling
ART AND SCIENCE
It is not a surprise that visual thinking plays an important role in the creative process; what many people don't realize is the role that creative thinking plays in the strategic thinking and planning process.
Henry Mintzberg in "The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning" makes a clear distinction between the skills necessary for strategic thinking and the skills needed for planning. He explains that planning involves the left side of the brain with a need for logic, reasoning, linear and rational thinking. Strategic thinking, on the other hand, requires the ability to examine new possibilities involving the right brain. Strategic thinking entails tasks such as dealing with large chunks of information, and the ability to pull pieces together into a big picture. Planning involves words and numbers and strategic thinking requires patterns and visual images.
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In "Strategic Thinking and The New Science," T. Irene Sanders tells us that "strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future." Visual thinking can help us link our intuitive sense of events in the world with our intellectual understanding.
Although there are different viewpoints, most current scientific research shows that while no one is totally left-brained or right-brained, most people have a distinct dominance on one side or the other.
In tasks such as the development of a long-range strategy, where thinking needs to come from both sides of the brain, it is important to find ways to draw out both our imagination and our analytic abilities. Visual based techniques can help us link possibility thinking, intuition, and current realities.
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models
I close my eyes and imagine how free my community would feel if all of its fundraising needs were consistently met. Every child could be adequately clothed, nutritiously fed, and attending a well-equipped school. Local sports teams, the Boy Scouts, etc. could be more affordable – maybe even free -- for struggling families. My hospital could have more beds, staff and equipment which would mean reduced waiting time for scheduled surgeries, or in their emergency waiting rooms. Local cancer clinics, respite care, and health research projects could all improve the quality of life for my whole community, thanks to adequate funding for salaries, research, and maintenance. They could even save more lives.I could go on and on; the list is endless. But you get the picture. An adequate s
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In "Strategic Thinking and The New Science," T. Irene Sanders tells us that "strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future." Visual thinking can help us link our intuitive sense of events in the world with our intellectual understanding.
Although there are different viewpoints, most current scientific research shows that while no one is totally left-brained or right-brained, most people have a distinct dominance on one side or the other.
In tasks such as the development of a long-range strategy, where thinking needs to come from both sides of the brain, it is important to find ways to draw out both our imagination and our analytic abilities. Visual based techniques can help us link possibility thinking, intuition, and current realities.
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many model
CEOs and Presidents often mistakenly treat key management personnel like Jell-O. They throw newly hired executives into the bowl, stir things up a bit, cool things off when things heat up and wait for things to gel. Viola. Perfect Jell-O every time.If this approach really worked, employee turnover would be non-existent. Everyone hired would fit the mold perfectly. No, the hiring and assimilation of key executive personnel is more like the art of making a souffl?. It takes practice, confidence and requires more than just sitting back and waiting for things to gel. If the thought of actually coming up with a recipe to hire and successfully integrate key management personnel into your organization makes you shrink then read on.Right ingredientsAssembling a well congealed management tea
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many model
You have this burning desire you want to be on your own. The temptation is so great that you want to quit your job. Enough is enough. You're sick of working for other people for a ridiculous pay.To be your own boss means controlling your own destiny, having your own time and no bosses to report to. Basically, you can do whatever you want.But before you really jump into a new territory of being on your own, you have to make sure that you're ready and well equipped.Below is the checklist that can help you to ensure that you're ready to be on your own.1. Have a crystal clear plan.Do you have a clear idea as to what you want to do next? You must know exactly what your plan is. Is this going to be the same as what you are doing? Or, is it completely different from what you are use
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many model
Data entry is the main component of any business firm. They use this to maintain records of all sorts in a properly way. Although it seems to be an easier task but this is not the scenario, the work has to be done very cautiously and efficiently by the professional as data is very crucial. Data is priceless for any organization irrespective of their size and strength. Today, huge changes in the business industry have taken place and so businesses are adopting such new advanced techniques. These high end technologies have helped the data entry services in becoming much easier and efficient than ever before. If you are seeking to this service then must be prepared to spend more for this. So hiring this service will certainly help your business towards upward growth. Well, being the owner of your business, you ar
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level. Dr. Canton's "Future Mapping" tool makes the distinction between forecasting (getting advance information about the future based on analysis of existing conditions and trends) and foresight (the ability to see what is emerging). The tool creates scenarios based on key change drivers, trends and "forces that can shape the future of an enterprise, market, industry, society or civilization." Read more about Future Mapping at: http://www.globalfuturist.com/chapter.php
SUPPORT
Visual tools and techniques are the most effective when they are set in the right framework. One of the keys to good visioning is asking good questions. The combination of questioning and visual techniques can bring out the "creative thinker" in even the most task-oriented person. Are you focused on the right questions?
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