Context Map (Gamestorming) - Facilitation Method
Workshop Weaver Features Resources BlogPricing 🇺🇸 Start Free Strategy Context Map (Gamestorming) The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight.
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- The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight. Use it to understand political, economic, technological, and other external influences, allowing teams to respond proactively.
- Hang six sheets of flip-chart paper in a two-row, three-column format on a wall.
- On the top-middle sheet, draw a representation of the organization and label it.
- Label the top-left and top-right sheets 'TRENDS' with arrows pointing horizontally.
- Label the bottom-left sheet 'TECHNOLOGY FACTORS' with arrows pointing up.
- Workshop Weaver Features Resources BlogPricing 🇺🇸 Start Free Strategy Context Map (Gamestorming) The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight.
- Use it to understand political, economic, technological, and other external influences, allowing teams to respond proactively.
- 2 On the top-middle sheet, draw a representation of the organization and label it.
- 7 Guide the group to discuss and fill in each category, excluding TRENDS, with relevant insights.
- 9 Summarize the findings and discuss insights and observations with the gro...
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The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight. Use it to understand political, economic, technological, and other external influences, allowing teams to respond proactively.
On the top-middle sheet, draw a representation of the organization and label it.
Workshop Weaver Features Resources BlogPricing 🇺🇸 Start Free Strategy Context Map (Gamestorming) The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight.
Use it to understand political, economic, technological, and other external influences, allowing teams to respond proactively.
2 On the top-middle sheet, draw a representation of the organization and label it.
7 Guide the group to discuss and fill in each category, excluding TRENDS, with relevant insights.
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