Top 10 Lessons for Introducing Visual Thinking to Your Organization

Facilitator: Michele Floriani
Company: BMC Software
Session #: 303
Session Title: Top 10 Lessons for Introducing Visual Thinking to Your Organization

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room: Commonwealth

Thanks for a great conference everyone! Scroll down to the bottom to access the presentation from this session. See you next time.

Please note that an updated version of my presentation has been posted because I noticed that people likley did not have the font I used. This latest version uses arial narrow (vs. TradeGothic Condensed). You may want to redownload if you grabbed a verison prior to Feb 1st.

Michele

Description

From aligning internal stakeholders to helping commercialize a product or service, the capability of visually expressing an idea in a simple and easy-to-understand way is a powerful one to have inside the walls of any organization. Often, internal creative teams are best positioned to extend their value and introduce a visual thinking service to their organizations. However, internal teams need to consider how they will prepare for, position, and deliver the service in order to make it meaningful and efficient for the business.

In this session, facilitator Michele Floriani will apply lessons learned to an interactive discussion on implementing and managing a visual thinking service in your organization. The audience members can contribute high level information about their organization to self identify with potential service models to take back to their business stakeholders. We will look at different visual examples of visual thinking corporate work and cover the important factors for ensuring scalability and maximum impact of a visual thinking service.

Session Outline

I. Sizing up the opportunity within your company

Lesson 1: Determining the core capabilities you will need to get started
Lesson 2: Identifying the benefactors of your service
Lesson 3: Where you’ll find success and some areas you might not have considered
Lesson 4: Your new best friends: the internal partners that increase the value of your work

Lesson 5: Using your powers for good (vs.evil)
Lesson 6: Creating demand
Lesson 7: Focusing on the strategic value; don't become a PPT jockey

Lesson 8: Establishing a good track record and working out the kinks
Lesson 9: Creativity vs. Standardization
Lesson 10: Ensuring repeatability and scalability