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Making Room For Growth: A strategic planning tool for identifying things to end so that new things can begin . Goal/Purpose: help teams/departments identify what projects/services/processes they should bring to a close so they can make room for new projects/experiments/services
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Making Room For Growth: A strategic planning tool for identifying things to end so that new things can begin Goal/Purpose: help teams/departments identify what projects/services/processes they should bring to a close so they can make room for new projects/experiments/services Time: ~ 2-3 hours
Process • 1) Discussion leader uses slides below to explain the • Ecocycle planning model concept. (:10-:15) 2) Each attendee is given blank template (see slide 10) and asked to identify where they think there departments current services, practices, initiatives fall. (:10) 3) In groups of 4-5, they reach agreement on a group response and fill out a flipchart size template of model (:30) 4) Group’s flipcharts are posted and facilitator conducts a gallery walk with the groups asking each group what were the easy ones to identify and which ones were hotly debated (:30) 5) Facilitator identifies themes and checks with group in making one overall ecocycle map for the team/department see themes where there is strong agreement (:20) 6) For those items in the “creative destruction” area, teams are asked to identify what valuable aspects/parts of those services/processes should be so noted (:15) 7) Next steps are identified (:10)
Start-up phase • Nurturing/development • Discovering how to “grow” • the business
Maturity phase • Driving efficiencies • Maximizing service/profits • Start-up phase • Nurturing/development • Discovering how to “grow” • the business
How do we close down products and services that have outlived their usefulness …..
…to free up energies and resources to explore new ideas (services)?
Ecocycle Planning 4) Renewal Mobilization “Sowing” 2) Maturity Conservation “Harvesting” Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap 1) Birth Exploitation “Sowing” 3) Creative Destruction “Plowing”
GSM example 4) Renewal Mobilization “Sowing” 2) Maturity Conservation “Harvesting” • Delivering Program • digitally • 100th anniversary • products Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap • Year of the Girl • products • Councils creating • their own store layouts 1) Birth Exploitation “Sowing” 3) Creative Destruction “Plowing”
Ecocycle Planning Rethink/ Reorganize/ Explore Renewal Routinization (Visionary) (Systems Developer) Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap Birth Creative Destruction (Entrepreneur) (Heretic) Release/ Crisis/ Confusion
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