Shaping the future
Maps are arguably the best tool to understand the past and to shape the future. The past is a foreign country (L.P. Hartley), that’s why we need to understand it; the future is an amorphic territory, that’s why we need to shape it. Trivioquadrivio’s MAPPS is in action today in Milan, to help a large group of managers to build a shared road map to design organisational change.
Where will we end by 5 o’clock?
The past is the starting point: where do we come from as a business unit and how did we get here as a group of colleagues? Points of view are different and differences are valuable, when we need to share decisions.
Then comes the future: how do we perceive it? What are the most relevant threats/opportunities? And the main obstacles/triggers that stop/facilitate our aims? Once again, value percolates from diversity.
Finally it’s the group map: 60 people generate 6 different maps to tell the same story, which is never exactly the same…
The final step is the plenary map, an Organisational Google Earth that helps participants to see what they mean, to shape what they want.
Aesthetic Intelligence 
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