Autodesk Fellow, Tom Wujec, will weave his work on Creativity and Visual Innovation (based on his books
“Imagine – Design – Create,” “Pumping Ions,” and “Five-Star Mind”) with work
he’s currently doing on two books related to “Clarity –Bringing Business Back
to Its Senses.”
Wujec will guide U40 Summit II participants through a series of interactive group activities that will stimulate their creative strategic planning processes through proven visualization techniques: making ideas visible, tangible, and persistent, and thereby building collaboration that yields clarity in problem-solving.
These exercises will be based on Wujec’s 10 emerging ideation techniques that create strategic, tactical, organizational, and personal development. These techniques are characterized by the 5 C’s: Clear, Concise, Correct, Compelling, and Collaborative.
CLARITY: TOOLS TO ENGAGE, ALIGN AND TAKE BOLD STEPS
In today's turbulent world, seasoned leaders now know that clarity is a vital dimension of business. The ability to clearly describe the forces that shape your company, paint a vivid picture of your mission, and plainly illustrate the strategies that lead to growth, largely determines your potential for success. Join Tom Wujec in a lively, full-day interactive workshop to help you build four essential capabilities to foster clarity:
1. Identify the essential business questions fundamental to success.
From broad organizationally focused questions, such as Where is the market heading? and How do we extend our business model? to personal questions, including How do I grow in my firm? and How can I increase my personal value?, participants will use a simple framework to select questions that are most relevant and pressing to you now.
2. Think through and answer questions visually.
Participants will distill and answer these questions by creating systems diagrams. Drawing from a visual library and using sketches, sticky notes and visual prototypes, they will make their thinking visible, tangible and persistent.
3. Facilitate conversations to create insight and meaning.
Participants will also spend time building their facilitation skills, not only listening more carefully, but fostering an environment to help others arrive at insight faster and discover elegant solutions, building trust and bringing out the best in people.
4. Applying systems thinking to take bold steps.
Finally, participants will work collaboratively to produce holistic solutions, applying visual systems that illustrate dilemmas and trade-offs, as well as the clear course of action to move forward.
About Tom Wujec |