1. What’s Current Business Strategy:

• Individual Model – Construction of Strategy Model by each team member individually
• Sharing – Every team member will share his/her understanding of strategy through model constructed using Lego® bricks and Explaining others what’s their understanding of strategy.
• Reflection: Every individual will be asked questions to explain salient features of individual model so that everyone can understand what’s constructed.

Posing the Question – Today’s Key Business Challenges:

• Individual Model – Every participant will construct his/her own model reflecting key business challenges posing threat to business growth.
• Sharing –Team members will individually share their understanding of challenges showing their model constructed using Lego® bricks and explaining others how he/she see they problem.

• Reflection – Every individual will elaborate the type and nature of problems constructed in model.

Consolidating the Problem – Creating a Landscape:

• Individual Model – Every participant will bring his/her model on table to make it part of bigger picture and briefly explain it again.
• Placement – Group negotiates the placement of individual models and similar models are placed beside each other to make a ‘Super Story’, the Problem Statement.
• Story Telling – One group member will explain the ‘Super Story’reflecting problems identified in each model so that everyone isincluded in the landscape.

Stress Testing – Building a System:

• Finding Stress – Every participant will identify three key catastrophic business challenges that can have phenomenal impact on business model.
• Impact Analysis – Participants will evaluate the impact of challenge on Individual Model, Connection or both.
• Finding the Trigger – Everyone in his/her own Model will evaluate why, how and when this challenge can arise and what may be the overall impact of it.

5. Elephant in the Room – Emergence & Decisions:

• It’s Happening – Assuming problem is “Now & Here”
• Playing Out – Brainstorming ideas group could take in response to opportunity or challenge emerged.
• Decisions – Choosing one or more potential actions & playing out how the system reacts in favorable way in relation to goals or aspirations.

6. Elephant in the Room – Emergence & Decisions:

• t’s Happening – Assuming Problem is “Now & Here”
• Playing Out – Brainstorming ideas group could take in response to opportunity or challenges emerged.
• Decisions: Choosing one or more potential actions & playing out how the system reacts in favorable way in relation to goals or aspirations.

7. Solution Design – Extracting Simple Guiding Principle:

• Insight – Gain insight about your system on multiple levels as how system reacts from inside and outside when challenges arise.
• Response – Based on insights gained, how your organization heed to new learning and responds in real time when elephant in the room is actually seen.
• Principles – Guiding Principles emerged as a result of stress testing which can be used in to resolve potential challenges if they actually occur.

Workshop Requirement:

• Only Leadership in room
• Duration: One Full Day
• Maximum Participants 12
• Financials: to be discussed.