SolutionsMapping works with sustainability leaders and innovators who want to:
- gain extreme clarity – about the context of your work - expectations, priorities, needs, capacities, scope, interdependencies, and the Big Idea, value or goal that is the core of your solution or innovation
- get your whole team on board, aligned and ready to make effective contributions – even if they are on the other side of the planet
- effectively engage stakeholders
- avoid “scope creep”
- make complexity manageable
- understand the core knowledge you need to achieve your goal
- identify gaps in knowledge or capacity – so that there are no surprises
- facilitate shaed vson, communication, collaboration & capacity building,
How Do We Accomplish This?
Guided by a Focus Question you identify, we work with you to elicit your tacit knowledge and the tacit knowledge of your team and stakeholders.
Tacit knowledge is the deeply-held personal knowledge, know-how and insights that constitutes at least 80% of the working knowledge of an individual, team or organization. It lives in the heads and hearts of people.
Although tacit knowledge is known to be difficult to access and represent - SolutionsMapping is experienced and highly-skilled in both. Working together, we use the tacit knowledge we elicit to co-create a concept map-based visual knowledge model.
This visual knowledge shows the context of your work. It is your SolutionsMap - a tool for sense-making and meaning-making. A tool for team and stakeholder alignment. A tool for capacity building. Because of the clarity it provides, it can be used as a decision-support tool.
Because it embodies the knowledge, know-how and insights of each person who participates, your SolutionsMap enables you & your team to deliver smarter, more effective solutions. Your solution also will be more cost effective because you will avoid costly errors, false starts, and “redos”.
The solutions you design and implement will more intelligent, more effective, and more just.
What Other Leaders Say About Their Experience
“I had no idea how important transparency was to me until you asked us to place it in relationship to the other concepts.” Terri Patterson, founder & president, Colorwaves, comunity-based green manufacturing
“You helped me tap into pieces of wisdom I didn’t know I had.” Sonja Carson, Pres. Berkana Int’l.
“Your process for eliciting staff expertise, and the knowledge model you created, provide us with a method & tool to prioritize training, responses to citizen complaints and planning. The whole department now has a common language.” Jean Baldwin, RN, MPH, Director, Jefferson Public Health.
Take a Step Toward a More Effective Solution
If you are ready to move forward and would like thoughtful, effective support to help you contribute a solution that embodies the unique knowledge, know-how and gifts that you and your team have to offer…
I’d be delighted to talk with you. We’ll explore the contribution you want to make and how SolutionsMapping can help you deliver a solution that is even more effective and more profound than you now imagine – a contribution of which you and your team can be very proud. The kind of contribution that makes life meaningful. There are no strings and no obligation.
CALL NOW 360.302.3214
Barbara L. Bowen, PhD, MFA
Founder & Knowledge Elicitor
director@solutionsmapping.com