Design Gym Series
A monthly online workshop for members of the Value Web Learning Community to get stronger—and smarter!— together.
In each session, we focus on a single skill for designing and facilitating collaborative design events.
A monthly online workshop for members of the Value Web Learning Community to get stronger—and smarter!— together.
In each session, we focus on a single skill for designing and facilitating collaborative design events.
What do we even mean by “deliverable”?
The best deliverable from a Collaborative Design Workshop is a clear, actionable plan or prototype that captures the team’s collective insights and ideas. This deliverable should be a tangible representation of the workshop’s outcomes, providing a roadmap for implementation and further development. It should be detailed enough to guide future actions but flexible enough to adapt.
This Design Gym workshop aims to expose participants to new frameworks and methodologies that will be helpful when working with external groups, internal groups, or clients. These methodologies help stretch design scenarios into design responses to those scenarios.
Scenario planning is a powerful tool that organizations use to anticipate and prepare for the future. By developing a range of plausible scenarios and exploring the potential impact of each one, groups can make better decisions and build more resilient strategies. To create effective scenarios, it's essential to identify the key drivers of change, develop multiple scenarios, and test and refine them to ensure they are robust and comprehensive.
How many events have used rockets, race cars, mountains, or moonshots as a metaphorical theme? Low-hanging fruit, swim lanes, scalable solutions, offline, bandwidth, ecosystem, bleeding edge, ducks in a row, think outside the box, move the needle, peel the onion, take it to the next level… all common, typical, business metaphors that we have heard.