BackPlanning

"Once you realize, become aware, that the way you are doing business today won't get you where you need to be tomorrow, then you are open to doing business in an entirely new way,"

-Dr. Frederick M. Jervis, founder,
The Center for Constructive Change®

Twenty-five years ago Dr. Jervis, with his wife Janis, created a new, and at the time, shocking way of looking at business. Based on his experience as a psychologist, Dr. Jervis created a planning model that requires those who use it to radically change the frameworks within which they operate.

Over the past 25 years he has worked with visionary leaders who were willing to make that change, and the results have been impressive, to say the least. Dr. Jervis and Ms. Williams have worked with a distinguished list of companies and organizations and also have conducted training workshops for leaders who wish to drive change within their organizations.

Rich Heiland, who had been designing, facilitating and training with organizations around storyboards as a visual planning tool, attended one of Dr. Jervis's workshops and felt that a piece of the Center's approach could be adapted for storyboarding.

What has emerged is a step in the SolutionsMap™ model that incorporates "BackPlanning." It is most useful in projects which have a longer-than-normal duration, though the concept applies to any project.

BackPlanning requires a group or team to "begin with the end in mind," to seek to define its outcomes, then work back from them to create a project plan. The storyboarding model allows the group to arrive at its ultimate purpose, while the BackPlanning step gives it a way to carefully configure its work over a period of time.

The SolutionsMap™ "Key Next Steps" phase then allows a group to look at immediate tasks to move into the longer-range plan.

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