Stage Two: Where are you going?
This stage is designed to help you consider what your options are for the future.
This is a chance to start thinking about where you want to be in the long term. This stage will offer guidance on how you might respond to future opportunities and manage potential threats. After using these tools, you'll be ready to put together realistic and effective plans.
The Tools
- Visioning
A range of approaches for helping you to imagine possible futures -
Thinking in three horizons
A tool to help you think about the present, the short-term and your long term aspirations -
Future Perfect
An approach to thinking about the future direction of the business -
Rich Pictures
A visual technique to explore your business from a different perspective -
Drawing from nature
Another visual tool to encourage you to draw from nature to think about your business differently -
Bright Spots
A one page canvas to help you imagine a new business model -
Business model generation canvas - visioning
A one page canvas to help you imagine a new business model
- Business processes
Tools for assessing and developing how you do things -
Improving your business processes
This technique is appropriate for modelling big problems and focusing activity to solve them -
Mapping out business processes
Utilising flow charts to help improve organisational processes
- Capacity for change
A tool for thinking about how your business responds to change -
Capacity for change
A tool for thinking about how your business responds to change
- Decision-making
Tools for developing your decision making -
Decision making styles
A matrix to help you consider the nature of decision making that is needed in different situations -
Decision making process
An introduction to the 5 steps of decision making -
Six Thinking Hats®
A creative thinking tool to help you make decisions through deliberately taking different perspectives
