Strategic Seeing

Strategic Seeing

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Strategic Seeing
Strategic Seeing
Foresight, design, strategic thinking, or system thinking?

Foresight, design, strategic thinking, or system thinking?

Once a foresight practitioner, a design thinker, a strategic thinker, and a system thinker decided to open an innovative bar.

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Svyatoslav Biryulin
Nov 10, 2022
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Strategy — map it out yourself

Once a foresight practitioner, a design thinker, a strategic thinker, and a system thinker decided to open an innovative bar.

The foresight practitioner created several plausible futures scenarios of how, when, why, and with whom people will go to the bars in 5–10 years.

The design thinker studied the customer experience of people who visited bars regularly and came up with a new design concept for the bar, with revolutionary seats, tables, additional services, and drinks.

The strategic thinker said that one bar is not an ambitious idea and developed a business plan to launch a chain of bars using a franchise business model.

The system thinker noticed that if the chain becomes popular and fathers begin spending more time in the bars, it will negatively impact the families and, in turn, society. So she offered to add some non-alcohol family activities to the business model so that both fathers and their kids could benefit from it.

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