The Strategic Café or “A bottom-up approach to setting a corporate strategy” (Day 2)
As a follow-up to my earlier blog post on this topic, below is the agenda of our meeting as well as the questions asked during the sessions. If you are not already doing so, I strongly recommend you start using this facilitation approach to improve your meetings – including your next Strategy Definition meeting.
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If you would like more information on how to organize your own Strategic Café, you can drop me an email (martin [at] analytical-mind.com). I’d be happy to help.
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Agenda – Day 2
Breakfast (8:00 to 8:25)
Welcome and meeting introduction (8:25 to 8:30)
Presentation of our initiatives for the next 6 months (8:30 to 11:00)
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Pause (11:00 to 11:30)
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Prioritization of our initiatives for the next 6 months (11:30 to 12:15)
Lunch (12:15 to 1:00)
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World Café – Strategic assessment of our environment (1:00 to 2:30)
Background: To correctly set up our strategies, we must understand the environment in which we operate for: our consulting service, our products, and our training.
Question: What are our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in each sector of activity?
Tables:
- Products
- Products
- Consulting Service
- Consulting Service
- Training
Mechanics: The participants are allowed 12 minutes at each table.
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Pause (2:30 to 3:00)
World Café – Operational improvements (3:00 to 4:30)
- Sales
- Marketing
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Subject Matter Experts
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Good stuff .. maybe you can do an ‘open-to-public’ world-cafe about “Implementing / adapting world-cafe” ..
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