Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The strategy conduit


Last week while reading the post Questionating on changethis.com I started to think about the planning process. Corinne Miller the author of the article presented a interesting perspective on the How? Why? & Why Not? collectively contribute to completing an organization, Ms. Miller says "We like to say that questions open the innovation pipeline."

Organizations like successful individuals and ones that are "a peg that fit a hole". A fundamental quality of a leader needs to be his or her ability to be comfortable with contrarian opinions in his/her mind and contrarian opinions within his/her team. Ms. Miller suggests being "Process and Procedure oriented" to enable creating a culture of Questionating.

I tried to conceptualize this process into a visual, that I refer to as the strategy conduit.