Strategic design workshops
We lead collaborative strategic design sessions. A strategic design workshop is an immersive experience crafted to take groups – business teams, multi-disciplinary project teams, whole-of-organisation groups, cross-organisation groups, industry groups, and consultative groups – through divergent and convergent processes. We get people thinking outside the box, working together, and visualising ideas fast. Strategic design workshops are highly tailored experiences—we plan each one around the issue or opportunity you need to address.
You are looking to:
- Solve a complex problem that requires behavioural change
- Get shared understanding of business outcomes and your team’s role
- Understand the next horizon for your organisation
- Create new ideas that work and energise your organisation
- Put an initiative back on track
- Transform your organisation in light of resource constraints
- Respond to user feedback on a service quickly and effectively
- Improve your organisation’s ability to hold a strategic conversation
We can help by:
- Applying our design experience and techniques to guide a workshop
- Leading a process of exploration, co-design and co-creation
- Generating new thinking from within the group and drawing on external viewpoints
- Creating an immersive design experience that both produces results and strengthens capability
- Driving strategic design thinking at all levels in the organisation
- Organising existing ideas into a cohesive solution system
What we have done:
- We provided strategic facilitation for a series of community consultation workshops between large corporations and a large government agency.
The goal was to ensure the workshops were collaborative and supported a strategic dialogue that tackled real world issues for the community. We designed the workshops and ensured the balance between exploring community needs and co-designing products and services was met. We also used mind mapping and other visualisations to enable a strong sense of making and co-design.
Examples of what we produce:
- Conversation trackers
- Concept maps
- Prototypes
- Experience frameworks
- Structured solution descriptions
- Solution system maps