1 Making Room For Growth: A strategic planning tool for identifying things to end so that new things can begin Goal/Purpose: help teams/departments identify what projects/services/processes they should bring to a close so they can make room for new projects/experiments/services Time: ~ 2-3 hours

2 Process 1) Discussion leader uses slides below to explain the Ecocycle planning model concept. (:10-:15) 2) Each attendee is given blank template (see slide 10) and asked to identify where they think there departments current services, practices, initiatives fall. (:10) 3) In groups of 4-5, they reach agreement on a group response and fill out a flipchart size template of model (:30) 4) Group’s flipcharts are posted and facilitator conducts a gallery walk with the groups asking each group what were the easy ones to identify and which ones were hotly debated (:30) 5) Facilitator identifies themes and checks with group in making one overall ecocycle map for the team/department see themes where there is strong agreement (:20) 6) For those items in the “creative destruction” area, teams are asked to identify what valuable aspects/parts of those services/processes should be so noted (:15) 7) Next steps are identified (:10)

3 Typical growth/evolution of systems over time

4 Start-up phase Nurturing/development Discovering how to “grow” the business

5 Maturity phase Driving efficiencies Maximizing service/profits Start-up phase Nurturing/development Discovering how to “grow” the business

6 How do we close down products and services that have outlived their usefulness …..

7 …to free up energies and resources to explore new ideas (services)?

8 4) Renewal Mobilization “Sowing” Ecocycle Planning 2) Maturity Conservation “Harvesting” 1) Birth Exploitation “Sowing” 3) Creative Destruction “Plowing” Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap

9 4) Renewal Mobilization “Sowing” GSM example 2) Maturity Conservation “Harvesting” 1) Birth Exploitation “Sowing” 3) Creative Destruction “Plowing” Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap 100 th anniversary products Councils creating their own store layouts Year of the Girl products Delivering Program digitally

10 Ecocycle Planning Rethink/ Reorganize/ Explore RenewalRoutinization Creative Destruction Birth Release/ Crisis/ Confusion (Entrepreneur) (Heretic) (Systems Developer)(Visionary) Poverty Trap Rigidity Trap

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