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Enabling ePositiveChange® at the Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE)

Enabling ePositiveChange® at the Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE)

Brigitte Morel, Chicago ASE Center Leader

(312) 928 1600Appreciative Inquiry International Conference, Baltimore, October 1st

2001

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ePositiveChange® Transformation Approach ePositiveChange® Transformation Approach

Articulating the IntentArticulating the Intent

DefineDefine

• Integrated project teamIntegrated project team• Awareness sessionAwareness session• Develop interview Develop interview

protocolprotocol

DiscoverDiscoverAppreciating the Best of Appreciating the Best of

What isWhat is• Conduct appreciative Conduct appreciative

interviewsinterviews• Discover Internal Best Discover Internal Best

PracticesPractices• Discover Positive Core & Discover Positive Core &

Positive Deviance ProfilePositive Deviance ProfileDeployDeployDelivering & SustainingDelivering & Sustaining

the Destinythe Destiny• Replicate eReplicate ePositiveChange PositiveChange processprocess• Embed into work streamsEmbed into work streams• Leadership launch sessionsLeadership launch sessions• Functional summitsFunctional summits• Develop Positive Change capacityDevelop Positive Change capacity• Create a constructive cultureCreate a constructive culture

DestinyDestiny

• Future state consulting operating Future state consulting operating model createdmodel created

• Future state roadmap createdFuture state roadmap created• Prioritized transformation Prioritized transformation

activitiesactivities• Commitment statement signedCommitment statement signed

Dream & DesignDream & DesignEnvisioning What Envisioning What

Might be & Co-constructing Might be & Co-constructing What Should beWhat Should be

• Develop positive change Develop positive change guiding principles guiding principles

• Create future state operating Create future state operating modelmodel

• Create future state roadmap Create future state roadmap

Dream & Design Dream & Design DefinedDefined

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Positive Change components/inputs: Positive Core, Positive Deviance Profile, compelling stories, quotable quotes, visions of the future

Develop transformation guiding principles to design future state to guide implementation

Iterate Positive Core and Positive Deviance Profile

Create overall change program and change initiatives integrating guiding principles

Create detailed work plan, including activities, milestones, deliverables and owners

ASE DesignShopDream & Design: 3 Days to Destiny

ASE DesignShopDream & Design: 3 Days to Destiny

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“Dream and Design at the ASE”“Dream and Design at the ASE”The Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) is a place where groups come together for 1-5 days to accelerate business decision making and create innovative solutions.

Right Purpose: a clear, pre-defined, outrageous, but achievable goal.

Right Process: using radically different methods, we facilitate participants through our accelerated business decision making and solution design process.

Right People: all of the key decision makers, influencers, and implementers participate fully in the multi-day event.

Right Facts: to enable fact-based decision making, a team of analysts assembles the facts and develops hypotheses prior to the event.

Right Environment: configured to inspire “group genius,” the ASE is a technology-enabled collaborative design studio. We have thousands of square feet of white board for creating and capturing your big, bold ideas!

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The Bottom LineThe Bottom Line

If you could bring an organization together to:• Accelerate complex decision making• Approach problems with creativity as opposed to “why it

won’t work”• Enable people with diverse perspectives to come together

in pursuit of a common goal • Create a team that can successfully implement

breakthrough solutions!

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Then you would…• Increase the speed of

achieving the expected value of a situation

• Increase certainty of achieving the expected value

• Reduce the risk associated with complex problem undertaking and potential losses associated with failure

• Deliver real business solutions months ahead of your competition

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How It WorksHow It WorksEach session is co-designed and customized to meet specific objectives. The methodology is based on Scan-Focus-Act.

Scan• Build the foundation for

a high-performance team

• Explore and understand the facts and implications

• Engage with industry specialists

• Create a common language

•Uncover critical assumptions and issues

Focus• Conduct scenarios and

simulations

• Test and evaluate hypothesis/alternatives

• Build, combine and iterate models

•Uncover and remove barriers to change

• Clarify expectations

Act• Create group alignment

and intention to act

•Make definitive decisions

• Engineer all aspects of the solution through parallel processing

• Establish detailed short and medium-term action plans

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Offerings Suited to Meet Specific NeedsOfferings Suited to Meet Specific NeedsThe ASE provides a portfolio of proven tools and processes to enable consulting work. Our 1-5 day sessions include:

EVENT FOCUS EXAMPLE APPLICATIONSStrategy and Transformation Global operating model visioning

E-PositiveChange transformation

Operational Improvement and Cost Reduction

Cost reduction portfolio prioritizationBusiness process redesign

Critical Technology Acceleration

Rapid requirements definitionTechnology architecture design

Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions

NewCo visioning and mobilizationPost-merger technology integration

Innovation and Ideation Innovation workshopsNew product/service creation and launch

High-Impact Learning and Off-Site Events

Divisional leadership training and developmentAccelerated project launch