 | How design thinking transforms the strategic planning process…not helpful patterns which can be seen at the next level up – patterns that we ignore at our peril. The design thinking solution Fortunately, design thinking has an answer… |
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 | Structure complexity – using Design Thinking to help navigate complexityDesign thinking provides tools and solutions to help structure complexity and present it in a way that best utilises the human brain. This article is part of our series on… |
 | Encourage creativity solutions to stress…one week to solve a problem using Design Thinking. Design thinking, in its wide variety of forms represents the best opportunity within your organisation to: Make breakthrough improvements in your… |
Meeting by Design…by Design was written almost a decade ago. But the principles it promotes are more relevant today than they were when it was written. Meetings have become virtual. Design thinking… |
A Different Way of Seeing Meetings…entrapped in an unhelpful paradigm of meetings. And it uses aspects of Design Thinking (before Design Thinking became popular) and virtual meetings (ditto) as a means of releasing us into… |
 | Managing by DesignWhat do we mean by ‘Managing by Design’? On one hand, it implies a sense of intention and predetermination, and on the other it reflects a spirit of creativity, free-thinking… |
Toolchest Articles – Better online meetings…working practices … Structure complexity – using Design Thinking to help navigate complexity Design thinking provides tools and solutions to help structure complexity and present it in a way that… |
 | How to Build a Better BusinessHow to Build a Better Business is an e-book. It contains straightforward guidance on how to use QFD to design and manage your organisation, and to transform its performance. See… |
 | Session Plans…the outputs. This level of planning helps the workshop designer structure a logical and effective process which engages and changes people’s thinking. It also allows them to objectively challenge their… |
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| Session Plans…Really effective and efficient meetings are rarely achieved by accident. This level of planning helps the workshop designer structure a logical and effective process which engages and changes people’s thinking…. |
 | The Purpose of Meetings…At a detail level they do, but good design does not begin at a detail level. Good design begins at a level which can see the overall pattern of meetings;… |
 | Matrix Diagram & QFD…Function Deployment – literally the deployment of quality outcomes into functions). As a tool for organisation design, QFD has few equals, not simply because of the rigour of the thinking… |
 | Creating a Virtual Spiritual Retreat…for themselves. You can get all you need in our article: Creating Online Spaces for Spiritual Retreat Useful links: Toolchest Blog | Toolchest Articles | Thinking differently about meetings |… |
Cultural issues in meeting preparation…meeting; or b. Take up everybody else’s time in the meeting as bystanders to the final agreement? When spending two hours thinking about the design of a meeting could either… |
 | Meeting Tool Selection…need, and the best way to use them. Further guidance on how to design your meeting, and the importance of these various elements can be found in Meeting by Design, which… |