I was there most of last week in Hongkong for a workshop! All the planners in the region were there...For a change power-point was subservient to conversations. And there was loads of visual thinking! We drew and thought aloud and the other way around.
1. I was pleasantly surprised how powerful the medium could be in framing a strategic issue and trying to solve it.
2. It was a lot easier to co-solve problems when one thought in pictures.
3. What I liked most was that pictures allowed me to stay longer with the problem. I am going to adopt more of this visual thinking in my day-to-day work...
4. And would love to have a visualiser in the planning team. Or out-source one for planning!
5. It also saved a whole lot of time. Opened up time for thinking.
We used this picture to make a point/ story/ thot thumb-nail about how planning can be made more 'influential'...
