The document discusses holding a planning session in a "big white room" to develop strategies and roadmaps. It suggests agreeing on objectives, identifying barriers, building shared visions, determining priorities, and designing strategies. Participants would include the right people from the organization. The facilitators would help prepare, analyze, architect, and guide thoughtful discussion. The results would be an aligned team with ownership over an executable plan to sustainably achieve goals without ongoing external support. The cost is less than not having the planning session.

1. What can possibly happen in a big white room?

2. Well with an agreed ‘exam question’ you could…

3. Agree your strategic aims and ambitions…

4. …and create the key metrics that drive those outcomes.

5. Then identify the barriers that may conspire to defeat you.

6. Build that elusive shared vision.

7. Agree the imperatives that will get you there.

8. Declare the strategies - now that you know all these dimensions.

9. Create the roadmap…

10. Redesign the operation to match the new requirements.

11. What else will I need to achieve that

12. Consensus on that ‘exam question’ – (What are you trying to do?)

13. The right people from your organization or eco-system.

14. A couple of weeks of preparation, analysis, architecting and thought (by us)

15. An open and passionate interest in solving the right problem (by you)

16. Impartial and sensitive facilitation (by us)

17. Oh and a big white room (we will help if you haven’t got one)

18. (if you don’t have one we can bring one for you)

19. What do I get as a result

20. A passionate and aligned team that can deliver

21. Ownership and accountability of what needs to be done, and by when

22. A clear and executable set of tools that helps you sustain delivery
(that may take another week or so beyond the white room bit)

23. A solution that isn’t dependent on an expensive external resource

24. And eventually you get your big room back?
(although you may want to keep the end result installed for a while)

25. What will it cost

26. A lot less than not doing it… (and of course that varies so ping me)

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