Apologies for cross-posting
We are thrilled to announce an exciting PDW at this year's meeting in Boston – an opportunity for hands-on experimentation using Lego to make sense of strategy.
https://www.xcdsystem.com/aom/program/A5p5d1k/index.cfm?pgid=891&sid=29093
STRATEGY WORK WITH ARTIFACTS:
LEVERAGING THE NEUROCOGNITIVE ADVANTAGES OF VISUAL SENSE BUILDING
Friday August 4th, 8am – 10am, Westin, Great Republic
Artifacts and visual aids are underutilized in strategy work despite their potential neurocognitive advantages for attention, emotion control, learning and memory, intuition, and creativity. Artifacts aid cognition in a variety of ways, providing managers with means of more rapidly, and more effectively, sense-building during complex strategy work. At the PDW, participants will be guided by an academic team of trained facilitators, through a practical and hands-on strategy work experience using visual aids. Lego Serious Play® is an open-source facilitation method by the Lego group. The facilitation method can be adapted to a range of other visual aid artifacts. We thus include reference to Lego Serious Play for awareness and recognition by potential workshop attendees – but the methods explored in the PDW can be extended to other artifacts.
The hands-on tutorial will be followed by an opportunity to reflect and evaluate the experience with experts and colleagues, exploring the emergence of intuition, insight, and understanding and how participants might incorporate visual aids in their work. The workshop will be presented in three phases, (1) introduction to the concepts and theory of visual aids in strategy work, (2) hands-on experience of a process using visual aids, and (3) reflections on the theory and practice of this approach.
There is no need to register, but we recommend arriving in good time to secure your spot and be ready to play. We have space for a maximum of 50 participants.
The session is sponsored by the MOC Division, who are offering morning coffee from 7.30 onwards at the Westin Copley Place – so grab a cup on your way to the session!
Enquiries can be directed to the organizers, Profs. Robin Gustafsson (Aalto University), Robert J. Galavan (University of Maynooth) and/or Kristian J. Sund (Roskilde University):
robin.gustafsson@aalto.fi
robert.galavan@mu.ie
sund@ruc.dk
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Kristian J. Sund
Roskilde University
Denmark
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