Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: strategy

  • Helping the NHS transform using visual thinking #engage #communicate #NHS

    In the news the NHS is never far from the headlines. ‘7 Day Working’, ‘Improving Quality’, ‘Focussing on Prevention’ and ‘Better Use of Technology’ are often mentioned and form key parts of the NHS 5 Year Forward View. This builds upon 15 years of improvement in the NHS and provides a broad consensus on what a better future for the NHS should be.

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    Over the last couple of years Crackerjack has been working with a number of NHS Foundation Trusts (Oxford Health Foundation Trust, Solent NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) as they work on finding ways to implement the ideas and initiatives contained in the 5 Year Forward View. It’s pleasing to see that visual thinking approaches are playing a part in helping NHS Foundation Trusts in this important work. We’ve been involved in the following work to date:

    • Designing and developing an interactive on-line ‘Improvement Guide’ for Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
    • Creating a rich picture showing Solent NHS Foundation Trusts new vision.
    • Designing and creating an interactive on-line ‘7 Day Services Guide’ for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Graphic recording a number of strategy and engagement events for both Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Designing a graphically facilitated ‘Making Every Contact Count’ engagement session for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Running a graphic skills workshop for the Oxford Health Improvement and Innovation Team.
    • Designing and creating an interactive on-line ‘Oxford Quality Improvement Toolkit’ for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

    The tools and approaches we’ve created all have a single goal: to engage people and provide them with the information they need in the most accessible, informative and relevant way possible. Using visual thinking principles in all of our work enables Crackerjack to achieve this goal.

    To find out more about how Crackerjack could help you engage and communicate with you people more effectively (whether you work in the NHS or in another sector), please contact us, call +44 (0)775 282 6227 or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • How will you tell you organisations story in 2016? #engagement #e4s

    ‘Providing a strong strategic narrative (story) about an organisation, where it’s come from and where it’s going to’ was defined as one of the four key enablers of engagement in David MaCleod’s ‘Engaging for Success’ report to the UK Government.

    Have you thought about how you will share your organisations story with both new and existing team members during 2016?

    Sharing the strategic narrative visually (e.g. as a ‘rich picture’) is proven to enable better understanding of an organisations vision, strategy and values. This enables better conversations which create a deeper shared understanding of what is required to achieve success for both the organisations and the people within it.

    Find out more about how you can increase engagement in your organisation using visual thinking at www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • HOW GRAPHIC RECORDING HELPED SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (IN THEIR OWN WORDS)…

    Here’s one of the latest pieces of feedback we’ve received about our graphic recording work from Charli Buxton (Executive Assistant to the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University):

    “John attended our All Staff conference which focused on our new University strategy. It was important to us that we had visual record of the day as it panned out and of the initial feedback which the strategy received.

    John attended workshops and plenary sessions, he visited stands and stalls in our Market Place, constantly picking up themes and information to include in the final visual. John worked on the visual throughout the day in the main entrance to the University where people passing by were able to see his work in progress.

    By the end of the day we had a fantastic visual record of the day, brilliantly incorporating the feel of the conference, the architecture of the university and, most importantly, the engagement with and initial feedback from staff to the strategy.

    We now have the original visual and an electronic version which we will display around the University for those people who were unable to attend on the day.”

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  • The Friday ‘Visual Thinking’ Challenge

    Here’s a visual thinking challenge for you and your colleagues on a Friday afternoon:

    On one side of A4 paper, you have 3 minutes to draw (using only pictures) your organisations company strategy.

    Once you have completed the challenge, compare your drawing to your colleagues and discuss:

    – what analogies you’ve used and why?
    – similarities and differences between your drawings?
    – what elements of the strategy were easiest to represent in your drawing?
    – what elements of the strategy were hardest to represent in your drawing?

    I think this should spark some interesting debates to end the week!!!