Strategic Planning: Discover, Ideation, Teaming, Leading and Learning

Superior strategic planning is based on intelligent hindsight and foresight. Where does that come from? Group input and the magical work of strategic planners.

GroupSystems solves the most pressing issues facing every strategic planner; namely, how to discover, organize, prioritize, decide on, and document the valuable group contributions that make a strategic plan believable and attainable. It’s all about tapping into the power of many!

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Planning Step	Traditional Way	The GroupSystems Way
Discovery	Conduct a meeting or conference call; roundtable discussions; partial or spotty attendance	Use our Brainstorming tools for face to face, virtual, or anytime sessions. Ensures more input, not less.
Innovate	Ask group members for ideas; suffer through a lot of discussion about why many ideas will not work or are wrong	Use the Anonymous contribution method to collect the maximum ideas possible, in the shortest time-frame. Recall: de Bono says that "quantity = creativity"
Organize	The planner weeds out duplicate or redundant ideas	Use the Categorizer tools to systematically group and cleanse all possibilities, with the Group having a say, not just one person. Buy-in comes from participation!
Prioritize	A simple vote is taken	Use Rank Order Vote or other sophisticated yet simple voting methods to enable rich, intelligent prioritization.
Decide	The planner or a small team decides the factors, scenarios, or decisions to be taken	Use Alternative Analysis to perform a fun and fast multi-criteria evaluation of every strategic option. Harness the power of many instead of the few
Document	Planner issues minutes when he/she has time to do it; could be days or weeks	With GroupSystems, auto-minutes are standard. You capture process and voting threads instantly, with reports available at the conclusion of your sessions.