1. By: Chelsea Gobster

2. * Predict crossroads problems * Convention for outcomes, overall process, roles, and ground rules * Make a design team to tailor and guide the process * Connect top management in a clear sponsorship role

3. * Complete a Graphic History * Identify core competencies and historic principles * Create a Context Map of the Relevant Environment * Analyze Industry Structure

4. * Agree on trends, assumptions, and imperatives * Analyze strengths, problems, opportunities, and threats of the current organization using a spot matrix * Identify benchmarks and potential success models * Interview customers, stakeholders and others for their perspectives

5. * Conduct a vision retreat or search conference with a lateral slice of the organization * Use the Cover Story Visioning Guide to imagine being featured in a major magazine in the future * Explore metaphors and stories that describe the future organization * Create a Vision Map with vision elements, values, critical issues, competencies, and major milestones

6. * Conduct cascades of the vision, eliciting strategies * Use the Five Bold Steps template to focus in on the critical actions needed to achieve a quantum shift in direction * Identify future scenarios and testing the vision against them * Iterate Vision Maps that include strategy ideas

7. * Have action teams create Graphic Gameplans for each key strategy * Use the vision to focus key re-design projects aimed at critical areas * Launch initiatives aimed at implementing key strategies

8. * Integrate the Strategic Vision into ongoing business planning and objective- setting processes * Identify and initiating critical "enactments" of commitments made in the strategic vision. * Update and using graphic visions as a major communications tool to underline the importance of the new directions and changes which arise.

9. * Grove Consultants International. Strategic Visioning Process. National Endownment for the Arts. Retreived from http://www.arts.endow.gov/resources/Lessons /GROVE.HTML