create art

See strategic management activities for explainations of the four stages of strategic management activities --

• generate wisdom - understand why the organization is the way it is an its trajectory
• create art -- unleash the imagination
• apply science -- design the future
• wage war -- execute

Types of activities in the create art stage

• creative explorations
• discomforting
• living in a new space
• idea generation
• getting silly
• towards new and greater strengths - strategic focus inquiry
• conflict exploration
• opportunity exploration
• imagining the future
• brainstorming
• alternative generation
• identification of experiments - define experiments
• idea nurturing and management
• models of the future
• generation of alternatives - high-level comprehensive inquiries
• define hierarchy of models
• culture inquiry
• building tools - a basis for problem solving
• conflict dissolution
• opportunity realization
• capability development needs
• towards the next destination - an idealized future
• refinement of alternative - mid-level comprehensive inquiries
• performance assessments - simulated and expectations
• strategic activities identification - towards deployment actions
• constrain elimination
• towards the next destination - bridging the gap
• gap definition
• bridges, roads, paths, leaps, steps, stages, phases
• incremental learning opportunities
• incremental benefit opportunities
• risk management