tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103235934641180.post2358010292333802822..comments2024-03-18T09:18:01.006+00:00Comments on FREEKY BUSINESS: “Framing contests”: What really happens in strategy-making meetingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103235934641180.post-53235400003287038542008-12-15T14:39:00.000+00:002008-12-15T14:39:00.000+00:00As pointed out, strategy is future looking for the...As pointed out, strategy is future looking for the most part; that future could be next month, next year, or the next product or service. Also as pointed out, it should be dynamic. However, all too often, especially in larger companies, it is more a process than an effort to be creative.<BR/>The sessions are time for team building; for creative juices to flow; for the ideas to mingle, merge, move toward a path that is created from consensus and not conflict.<BR/>It should be done in a very non threatening environment and everyone involved should be comfortable with the fact that it can and will change over time as events unfold.<BR/>Most of all it should be fun!<BR/><BR/>Bob Duerr<BR/>VP Sales and Marketing<BR/>OneVoice TechnologiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103235934641180.post-38270581282779551882008-12-15T14:20:00.000+00:002008-12-15T14:20:00.000+00:00I have led strategy sessions for an SBU that build...I have led strategy sessions for an SBU that builds on using creative thinking techniques. I found them more productive as the composition of the group was more diversified to include cross functional representatives that may not be given the opportunity to contribute to a strategy. Other than C level executives, middle and other management need to be reminded of what strategy means, and that is different from a tactical or stricly sales approach.<BR/>Ken FoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103235934641180.post-87693875967818102462008-12-12T09:30:00.000+00:002008-12-12T09:30:00.000+00:00I think that there are three stages here. First, ...I think that there are three stages here. <BR/><BR/>First, it's important to air the different competing views, with discourse or disagreement being much more valuable than consensus. <BR/><BR/>Second, these ideas should be built upon by the team in a positive, collaborative way, to see what they could turn into. <BR/><BR/>Third, it should be the chairman / MD / strategy leader who goes away and makes the decision, essentially as an enlightened dictator.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871386139876964549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103235934641180.post-52795570221849747132008-12-12T01:47:00.000+00:002008-12-12T01:47:00.000+00:00Framing seems to be an appropriate way of describ...Framing seems to be an appropriate way of describing what happens in strategy sessions. However, after reading your blog a couple times, it strikes me that what you describe is pretty clean--and that the winner takes all. Those of us in the social sciences know that that is rarely, if ever, true. Concepts, no matter how individually thought through are always adjusted, tweaked, refined, tuned, shaped or reframed in a productive meeting. In other words, we never leave a meeting with our concept completely untouched--and if it were to happen, I believe that the team failed and someone must have been asleep at the stick.<BR/><BR/>Tags: frame, reframe, strategy planningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com