Figuring out visions of the future, solving the business challenges of today - getting real ownership of the outcome? We know of no better solution than structured visual frameworks - built together with the leadership team. Here's a short visual ramble extolling the incredible powers and beauty of logical structures.

Think of them as architectures and blueprints that can change the way we look at everything.

Built by the people with most to benefit - our clients. They are crafted with love, care, logic and rigour - frameworks have the 'magic' to leave nothing important out - at the same time as forcing focus, relevance and meaning in.

We work in teams and when we get together we co-create them at large scale. They are 50-60 feet long and 10 feet tall you can almost crawl inside inside them. They are magnets for passion and insight and they create genuine ownership and engagement.

When properly designed and based on an agreed 'exam question' they surface the facts required to make important choices. They show the gaps as much as they show the moving parts required to decide what's what. What matters.

Although they illustrate systems and mechanisms well they also weave in the capabilities required that make the mechanism work. This ensures both the human responsibility and accountability at the critical points. It makes sense to the real people.

Everyone needs to know where they stand in the grand scheme of things. Frameworks illustrate the vital 'systems diagram' of the business. That's how it works. That's how WE work.

Nowadays there's too much complexity in our lives for lengthy explanations. There's not enough time for expensive deep dives into too many or impenetrable text based tomes. That detail needs to be there but technology affords us a powerful and graphical user interface. The framework.

As the world drives for yet more understanding and ever more engagement having the blueprint is vital. Building a recognisable architecture that shows the way is the only way we know to ensure coherent enterprise communication and execution.

It’s one of those words that covers a lot of things — a tool, a construct, a mechanism, a structure, a device. It almost always used to suggest something that’s deliberately ‘built’. It’s also described as the ‘structure’ underlying a system, concept, or text. In other terminology it’s about shape, fabric, frame, order, scheme, system, organization, construction, configuration, composition, constitution, architecture, anatomy.

Lazy language and poor definition are known killers of quality outcomes and the promoters of high risk environments. Frameworks have the power to allow clarity and meaning to be derived from the most complex of challenges.

And stories are strategy and all things in life. By creating frameworks we are creating storyboards and as a result developing the narrative- the pulse of the business.

Visual frameworks have the ability to break down the traditional barriers of language and nationality. As a result they remove the distance between people working towards a common aim.

Although the word 'fun' has taken generations to be acceptable business practice it's now a major tool in gaining the attention of the human beings in the workplace. Frameworks are perfect for collaborative development and co-creation. High energy and inspiring involvement is at the heart of much needed change in business.

BECAUSE THATS HOW WE ROLL

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