The Institute for Strategic Clarity offers workshops tailored for your "strategic clarity" needs:

	introductory courses, which develop your understanding of and ability to make decisions with greater strategic clarity
	intermediate courses, which apply your clarity to different strategic aspects of social systems
	advanced courses, which lead to corporate designer certification, providing you with the foundations to design healthy organizations that create value in the short and long-term

Strategic Systems Thinking: Improving Business Performance with ithink

A 3-Day Course

What Others Have to Say. “Most organizations can’t execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. A shared model (vision) of the strategy is the best way to cut through complexity. Unfortunately, developing clear and compelling visions to guide organizations is an art mastered by very few leaders. Are we condemned to wander aimlessly until a great leader develops a vision? System dynamics can make a science of visioning. Managing from Clarity provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. Read it; it’s a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.”

David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization

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The Value to You. Improving organizational performance is about the art of "seeing" the optimal paths through a field of complexity. This requires the ability to see and understand the whole. However, we have been systematically taught and managed to see/understand pieces. This workshop on strategic systems thinking offers a clear transferable process for constructing, holding, interpreting and navigating the whole. This workshop strengthens your ability to: Identify and link the critical strategic resources of your organization Create a systemic story that holds all of the necessary elements of your strategic thinking in one place Interpret the impact of possible expected outcomes as well as unexpected ones on your organization Communicate your strategic systems thinking to the rest of your organization

Instructor: James Ritchie-Dunham, co-author of Managing from Clarity, is president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity and associate of the Psychology Department at Harvard University.

To Register: To register or request more information, please go to the isee systems, Inc. website or call 603-643-9636 in the USA.

Mindful Strategy

A 2-Day Seminar

Tired of stale strategies that don't work?

Interested in new ways of removing obstacles that prevent reaching or exceeding your goals?

Interested in ways of increasing innovation and improving leadership skills?

What Others Have to Say.

“Most organizations can’t execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. Jim Ritchie-Dunham’s “strategic clarity” provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. It’s a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.”

David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization

“Ellen Langer is an original. She’s one of the most creative minds I’ve encountered in the application of her mindfulness research to the problems of organizational behavior and leadership. I feel certain that all leaders and organizations would benefit from her ideas and would, without question, be far more creative and productive, and yes, mindful, of the challenges confronting them.”

Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, USC, and author of the best-selling On Becoming a Leader

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Instructors:

James Ritchie-Dunham, President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, Visiting Scholar MIT Sloan School of Management, co-author of the book, Managing from Clarity

Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology Harvard University, author of The Power of Mindful Learning

Language: Part of the seminar is presented in English with simultaneous translation.

To Register: To register or request more information, please contact us.

Brochure: PDF version of this information.

Strategic Decision Making Made Ridiculously Simple

A 2-Day Seminar

Sharpen your managerial decision making skills

Improve the effectiveness of your decision processes

Examine the latest decision making theories and practices and determine applicability for your organization

What Others Have to Say.

“Most organizations can’t execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. Jim Ritchie-Dunham’s “strategic clarity” provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. It’s a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.”

David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization

You are welcome to see other endorsements for Managing from Clarity.

Who Should Attend. This program is designed for anyone within the organization that is leading a group of people, who wants to increase the effectiveness of the decisions they make individually and collectively.

Overview. While we all make decisions all the time, most of our decisions do not lead us to the desired results. Fifty years of research and application have shown that this is easy to fix. You will learn that all decisions are based on the value and factual judgments you make. You will learn how these judgments are formed and the techniques, decision processes, and information technologies that influence them.

Learning Objectives. This 2-day seminar will improve your ability to make decisions within your organization, for yourself and your direct reports. By understanding what happens when you make a decision, you will understand how to improve it.

Unique Features. Your learning will be enriched by lectures, class discussions, exercises, and an in-depth analysis of an actual organizational decision. Within each of these teaching modalities, you are an active player in the learning process and in the array of managerial decisions that must be reached.

Program Focus. This program is designed to expand your understanding, in an integrative manner, of how you make decisions in three key areas:

Value Judgments Your decisions of what to do at any given moment depend on your value judgments about the future state you desire, whether you think about it explicitly or not. You will learn easy, rigorous methods for working with these value judgments that are well studied.

Factual Judgments Your decisions also include factual judgments about how the world works, enabling you to decide how act to achieve your desired results. You will learn about straightforward techniques for making these judgments explicit.

Behavioral Judgments Given your desired outcome and your understanding of how the world works, you update your understanding of the current status of the system by seeing how it is behaving. You will learn easy methods for validating these behavioral judgments.

Instructors. James Ritchie-Dunham, President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, Associate at Harvard University, co-author of the book, Managing from Clarity

Fred Simon, Retired Executive Ford Motor Company, Adjunct Faculty University of Michigan

Language: Part of the seminar is presented in English with simultaneous translation.

To Register: To register or request more information, please contact us.

Brochure: PDF version of this information.

Dynamic Balanced Scorecards

A 2-Day Seminar

Understand how leading organizations have applied the balanced scorecard

Increase your organization’s flexibility in responding to changes in its environment

Measure your organization’s development in an integrative manner

What Others Have to Say.

“Most organizations can’t execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. Jim and Hal’s “strategic clarity” provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. It’s a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.”

David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization

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Who Should Attend. This program is designed for business professionals and strategic planners who want to measure the performance of their organization in a holistic, dynamic manner.

Overview. Every Fortune 1000 company has implemented some form of the Balanced Scorecard. Research and experience with the many organizations that have developed performance measurement scorecards show four areas critical to successful implementation: explicit cause and effect relationships, metric selection, simulation, and communication. Traditional scorecards keep cause-effect relationships implicit, select financial metrics, use financial what-if simulations in spreadsheets, and communicate only with numbers. The Dynamic Balanced Scorecard makes causality explicit and rich, uses holistic and well tested means for selecting measures, tests the measures in mental and computer simulations, and communicates through numbers and experience-based relationships.

Learning Objectives. The 2-day seminar enables you to improve upon your organization’s existing Balanced Scorecard, or to help you build a new Balanced Scorecard that is more powerful than the traditional scorecards. Personally, you will develop the modeling and Systems Thinking skills needed to enable you to construct a first-pass Dynamic Balanced Scorecard for your organization.

Unique Features. In collaboration with the creators of the Balanced Scorecard, this course brings new crucial dimensions to the development, communication, and implementation of the Balanced Scorecard. Your learning will be enriched by lectures, class discussions, exercises, and computer simulations. Within each of these teaching modalities, you are an active player in the learning process and in the array of managerial decisions that must be reached.

Program Focus. This program is designed to strengthen your understanding of five key areas of the balanced scorecard:

What Scorecards Do Organizations use scorecards (SC) to collect and aggregate data from different areas of the organization and use it to inform the organization of its status. The balanced scorecard models the strategy of the organization, based on the causal connection between elements of its business model.

Designing the Dynamic Model of the Business You will explore a systems-based approach for modeling the causal connections in the business model that relate the different elements of the balanced scorecard.

Designing the Dynamic Model of the Strategy You will understand how the balanced scorecard translates the model of the business into a model of its strategy and how simulation makes it dynamic.

Implementing the Scorecard You will explore methods for cascading the balanced scorecard throughout the organization, addressing both the accompanying cultural issues and the information systems that support the scorecard.

Instructors. James Ritchie-Dunham, President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, Visiting Scholar MIT Sloan School of Management, co-author of the book, Managing from Clarity

Hal Rabbino, Vice-president Strategic Clarity, co-author of the book, Managing from Clarity

Language: The seminar is presented in Spanish.

To Register: To register or request more information, please contact us.

Brochure: PDF version of this information.

Taller de Planeación Estratégica: Administrar con Claridad en un Entorno Global

Descripción: En tiempos turbulentos y de cambios rápidos, las organizaciones se enfrentan cada vez con mayor frecuencia a situaciones complejas o estratégicas sin la claridad necesaria para actuar. Para poder manejar la complejidad del negocio se necesita poder entender el todo y cómo se interrelaciona Las partes. Este taller interactivo de 3-½ días está diseñado para entender los alcances, bondades e implicaciones sistémicas del plan estratégico de su organización. Le permitirá adquirir Los conocimientos y habilidades básicas para enriquecer Las conversaciones estratégicas utilizando una innovadora metodología en planeación estratégica "Administrar con Claridad." Objetivo del taller: Analizar Los factores que determinan que UN plan estratégico sea o no exitoso.

Beneficios:

• Articular claramente el objetivo que se desea alcanzar con el plan estratégico de negocio.
• Identificar cuáles son los diferentes grupos de interés que participan en su organización apoyándola para que logre su objetivo y ver qué es lo que Los satisface.
• Asegurar que el plan y sus componentes tengan el rigor requerido (verificar causalidad). Minimizar los resultados no esperados en el futuro de las decisiones estratégicas tomadas hoy.
• Identificar los recursos estratégicos con los que cuenta la organización para lograr su objetivo.
• Identificar los puntos críticos (acciones) a seguir en el plan.
• Qué requiere/limita su organización para que el plan estratégico se pueda implementar y tener éxito.
• Identificar los indicadores sistémicos para poder evaluar si el plan está dando los resultados deseados en los tiempos esperados.
• Establecer las bases para la difusión y retroalimentación del plan al personal.

Comentarios: "Most organizations can't execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. A shared model (vision) of the strategy is the best way to cut through complexity. Unfortunately, developing clear and compelling visions to guide organizations is an art mastered by very few leaders. Are we condemned to wander aimlessly until a great leader develops a vision? System dynamics can make a science of visioning. Managing from Clarity provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. Read it; it's a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century."
-- David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-autor de The Balanced Scorecard y The Strategy-Focused Organization

"… El enfoque apoya tanto al diálogo estratégico dentro de un equipo administrativo como a la comunicación de la perspectiva estratégica más ampliamente."
-- Peter Senge, autor de La Quinta Disciplina y co-autor de La Quinta Disciplina en la Práctica entre otros.

¿Quién debe de asistir a este taller? Se pueden beneficiar de este taller los ejecutivos de cualquier sector o industria, en todos los niveles de responsabilidad.

Instructores: James Ritchie-Dunham, Director General del Institute for Strategic Clarity y co-autor del libro, Managing from Clarity (Wiley 2001) y Luz María Puente, Directora del Institute for Strategic Clarity.

Cupo limitado

Para mayor información sobre o registro del taller, póngase en contacto con nosotros.

Un Curso de 3 Días

La primera parte del curso está diseñada para presentar los conceptos básicos de la dinámica de sistemas y para irse familiarizando con como se pueden aplicar estos conceptos a múltiples aspectos organizacionales. La segunda parte del curso enftiza el estudio de unos cuantos models sencillos que ayudan a entender la dinámica de áreas claves del negocio como son estrategia corporativa, finanzas, producción, planeación, recursos humanos y rediseño de procesos, entre otros. Los participantes, trabajando en equipo, tienen la oportunidad de experimentar con cada uno de estos modelos, asi observando el comportamiento que estas estructuras generan a lo largo del tiempo. El propósito es familiarizarse con varias estructuras genéricas de administración para comenzar a comprender como se aplican a temas específicos del negocio. Para mayor información, póngase en contacto con nosotros.

Un Curso de 2 Días

El segundo curso está diseñado para aquellas personas que quieren construir un modelo desde la hoja blanca. Los participantes aprenden los pasos básicos a seguir para construir un modelo de simulación. La meta es poder aplicar estos pasos en la construcción de un modelo relevante a un problema de su entorno de trabajo. Para mayor información, póngase en contacto con nosotros.

Organizations that Have Participated in Our Intro Courses

Through its members, the Institute for Strategic Clarity offers applied workshops that focus on providing greater clarity and accelerated learning in your organization. Download a workshop catalog (pdf).

	Accelerating Performance Improvement
	Applied Strategic Clarity
	Business and Society: A Core Competencies Perspective
	Conversational Strategic Clarity
	Decision Making in Dynamic Environments
	Designing Organizations
	Developing Value Maximizing Strategies
	Dynamic Balanced Scorecards
	Emerging Leadership
	Implementing Capitalist Management Techniques in Economies of Change
	Launching and Managing High Performance Workgroups
	Leading Change
	Making Sense Out of an Uncertain Future: Studies of the Future
	Managing from Clarity: Mapping Your Own Organization
	Meeting the Global Business Challenge: Achieving Company Objectives in the Face of Diverse Stakeholder Expectations
	Real Options
	Risky Decision Making
	Service Supply Chains
	Synergy: A Gaming Simulation for Creating Exceptional Managers
	Tools for Applying Organizational Learning