Conceptual Models
Starting under $5k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
We can visualize any kind of issue, system, challenge. The thinking that evolves through live and virtual processes helps create a clear, cohesive and collective understanding of even the most complex issues.
APPLICATIONS
- Explain the what, why, how or your business or program.
- Show the big picture & details in a clear and cohesive visual story.
- Foundational pieces for other products.
Business Models
Starting under $5k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Engaging executives, staff, clients and market/industry experts will create a compelling unique value proposition in a clear and cohesive model that demonstrates a feasible approach to success (impact and/or profitability).
APPLICATIONS
- A tool to measure and validate your assumptions
- A story that helps guide strategic and operational decision making
- Communicate for team, partners, funders
Process Maps
Starting under $5k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Uncover inconsistencies, inefficiences and opportunities to optimize and improve how your business works. Help your staff be more efficient, effective and consistent.
APPLICATIONS
- Training and communications tool
- A model for optimization and automation
- A work tool (visual and/or interactive tool to link tools, templates and processes togehter).
Strategic Plans
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
A good strategy provides a clear definition of the problems your team is capable of going to work, guidelines to the right approach, and an architecture of objectives and tasks.
APPLICATIONS
- Coherent and cohesive planning
- Align people around business objectives
- An operational tool to help managers and staff make better decisions in-situ.
Logic Models
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Logic models take conceptual graphics to the next level of detail, articulating the logical relationship between the different functions of a business/program. The design process will uncover the realities and assumptions of the chains of cause and effects that produce an outcome.
APPLICATIONS
- Program planning and evaluation
- Funding / program justification
Systems Models
Starting under $25k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Systems models articulate how parts of a system interact to produce an emergent result. This understanding helps you create effective and measurable strategies. The less you understand a system, the more chance there is of unintended consequences that work against you.
APPLICATIONS
- Support other products or business objectives.
- Avoid unintended consequences.
Issue & Idea Map
Starting under $5k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Discover the real problems you and your team need to address. Very often, teams just need to talk, debate and explore to uncover the most important issues to tackle. We facilitate, listen, probe and record your issues and ideas to articulate the most important ones.
APPLICATIONS
- Discover the critical issues and opportunities
- Organize individual ideas as "corporate" knowledge
- Communicate and explore issues and ideas as a whole and in detail
Prioritization Tools
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Making business decisions presents challenges when weighing risks versus rewards. Building a prioritization tool with the collective experience of your team can uncover facets and factors to better measure options so you can make better decisions more people support.
APPLICATIONS
- Idea / knowledge management tool
- Tool to score, rank and prioritize ideas based on individual and collective perspectives
- Decision making support
Indicator Frameworks
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Indicator frameworks articulate the 'data model' behind your business. They will help you determine WHAT you should measure and HOW you should measure it in order to attribute performance and results to decisions and activities.
APPLICATIONS
- Set benchmarks and goals
- Measure performance in relation to time and goals
- Create new methods for measuring impact
Program Review / Preview
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Look back at last year's successes and failures, identify best practices, and look forward to upcoming challenges and opportunities. Connect the issues and ideas people experienced and watch how the collision of ideas identifies new opportunities.
APPLICATIONS
- Planning and reporting
- Program improvement / optimization
- Team building
Roadmaps
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Create and communicate a collective story of where, why, and how your business is going to go. This is critical in keeping peopel aligned and working cohesively towards the same goal. People lose sight of the bigger, long-term picture the busier they get delivering and putting out fires.
APPLICATIONS
- Connect your vision, strategy, plans and performance
- Keep track of milestones
- Align your team around a collective vision
Plans
Starting under $10k after HST
DESIGN VALUE
Plans quickly become out of date (after what actually happens happens), so our process includes everything from designing the original plan to regular engagements to keep your plans up-to-date as your project evolves. Make operational decisions and communications easier.
APPLICATIONS
- Define streams of activity over a period of time
- Support operational decision making
- Communicate activities at a high and medium level of detail