COMPRESSION PLANNING
Better Decisions Faster
Viewer"s Guide:
Storyboarding is a strategy that clarifies and defines a problem, narrowly focuses you team on a specific purpose, generates ideas, prioritizes and narrows to workable solutions, creates an accountability system, and delivers an effective solution. This guidebook supports the Storyboarding video. (PDF)
The facilitator(s) is key to an effective storyboard session. The facilitator(s) empowers the planning team to create, prioritize, organize, analyze, and act. There are three stages in the facilitation process: Preparing, Moderating, and Follow-Up. Through Compression Planning you can make better decisions faster. (15 minute video)
Change is linked to action and accountability. Solutions developed in the storyboard process must be translated into action steps and then monitored for effective implementation. This will result in purposeful action with high impact.
There are three stages to Action and Accountability:
1) Define Next Steps
2) Implement Action Steps
3) Reflect on Action Taken and Adapt
(6 minute video)
Compression Planning is a great addition to your problem solving toolbox. Designers see the bigger picture and facilitate the compression planning process to achieve higher impact solutions faster
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The design phase sets you up for success by clarifying the problem and involving the right people in the planning process.
A designer’s role is to help people understand the need for change. Change does not come easily. The designer guides organizational leaders through processes to achieve breakthrough change.
(12 minute video)
