Strategic Planning with the Deliberate Integration of Creativity:
Strategic Planning with the Deliberate Integration of Creativity has been used for the following types of projects:
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Strategic planning.
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New product development.
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Product naming.
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Organizational vision and mission development.
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Promotion development.
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Organizational restructuring.
Key benefits of using this approach to solve tough organizational challenges are:
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Group consensus around complex issues.
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Many breakthrough or “outside-of-the-box” ideas.
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Dramatic reduction of off-focus debates and tangents.
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Drastic reduction of meeting time.
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Equal participation by all group members, including bosses and subordinates.
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Faster group decision making.
Group Size: Depending upon the project, ideal group size is between five to twelve, or sub-groups of that size. Past projects have included groups as small as five and as large as 300.