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This journal contains the textual and graphical documentation that was done
"real time" during the course of our DesignSession® Event. The text
in this journal is not a word for word transcript of everything that was said
during your event. Instead it attempts to chronologically capture and synthesize
the ideas, data and information expressed during the DesignSession.
Clearly, the participants have a fiduciary responsibility to each other and to their employers regarding the dissemination of the information in this document. This requires the highest possible standard of care that context and completeness are transferred as well as specific data and information. Any non-participant using this document should assume this same responsibility.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Accelerated
Solution Environments (ASEs), supported by knowledge workers of diverse skills,
enable our consultants to leverage expertise in new ways in service to their
clients. Innovative work processes are linked to technology, work environments
and solution objects for rapid design, prototyping and implementation. Through
synergy, group genius and time compression, value is generated for the whole
enterprise.
A Design Event is one form of group work facilitated in an ASE. It is a process
of "decision by design." The process differs from typical planning
meeting or negotiation session. During a Design Event, participants are
facilitated through a rigorous process of exploration, co-design, assessment and
decision-making.
Design Events fuse planning and action, design and decision making, long and and
short range goals. Design Events accomplish in a few days- and at a fraction of
the cost - what usually takes weeks or months.
Design Events are built around three phases: Scan, Focus and Act.
Scan is used to open up the range and depth
of vision for the participants, in the scan phase, designers look into the
future and outside of normal industry parameters. Hidden design assumptions are
surfaced and examined; new ways of exploring and using information are
discovered. During Scan participants are introduced to each other and to each
others' ideas in ways far more interesting and meaningful than most working
teams have experienced.
Focus brings focus to ideas explored during scanning. We use this phase to
examine ideas, projects and assumptions from many different vantage points. We
look for intersecting points between ideas and projects. Ideas that don't
"fit" fall away naturally without voting or complex decision-making
processes. Other ideas and projects "mature" through the process and
become the path through which everything else will travel. The emphasis of this
day is design. Ideas are selected because they grow stronger through this
iterative process and they are not subject to compromise.
Act is action. Planning is the ordering of resources over time; success is
getting things to follow each other in right order. During this phase we build
excitement and commitment, and we define the work in terms of projects that have
starting and ending points.
Within each phase the participants expand their creative abilities. Participants
collaboratively define models of the future and develop specific goals and
action plans.
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Gemini Ernst and Young LLC.