Structured and visual thinking - is one of my passions, I have spent 20 Years thinking about it. Structured and visual thinking is the act of bringing many abstract aspects of understanding together in as quick and as inspiring a fashion as we can.
Mixing structured thinking and visualisation when trying to bring complex and disparate content together can bring about new value and exploits the power of wide context. The term structured visual thinking means just that. It describes the core techniques we use. We use all three parts and they are critical for leveraging the insights we capture during those conversations with senior client teams.
Structured Visual Thinking™(SVT) (The Solution) now defines our use of frameworks and expert facilitation. These techniques are fundamentally designed to force people to think more broadly and drive towards clarity. Clarity and focus from chaotic and random information or knowledge present in all our lives and particularly applied for the benefit of our clients.
Group Partners™ is the business I founded to exploit the use and to develop its wider application - Over 15 years we have observed the value SVT™ can bring to clients through a mix of wider context, physical structure, questioning and visual articulation of the teams thoughts.
Structured and visual thinking sorts out the chaos of valuable information and data, knowledge and insight for teams that have complex business objectives and enables them to more crisply rank, define and order their thinking. Decision makers can understand more and feel more in control of the subsequent programs of work because they have been involved directly in engineering their own future.
Group Partners™ and its Expert Network™ intervene with clients at senior level to deliver structured and visually stimulating solutions in 4 main practice strands:
Strategic Direction, Planning & Development.
Transformation Planning & Development.
Change & Change Management
Communication & Enterprise Wide Information Systems.
Over the last 5 years we have created extensive solutions, tools and techniques across all these areas to support varying programs of work. If you are intrigued by the image at the top or about any of this thinking then check out the link
First published on John's Contextual Frameworking blog, 5 March 2006. See the copy in the Wayback Machine. Kept as John wrote it.
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