New Bigger Picture Newsletter

From graphic facilitator Ole Qvist-Sørensen of Bigger Picture in Denmark:

This is Bigger Picture’s first newsletter. I am really proud and hope you will find the content relevant and inspiring. You have not signed up for this “newsletter”, but because we are all in the same network and share interest I think it will be of interest. Please – if you have ideas, questions, feedback, comments and ideas, please send them. We plan to send out newsletters 3-4 times a year.

Since New Year we have worked hard to sharpen our company profile and have prepared a rollout for the coming years. We are still making small adjustments and improvements, but the foundation is now in place. Hope you like it and can see that there is a role within the network too. The field is growing and widening! In the coming months some ideas of how to connect to the broader network and figure out how a visual language and tools can be of use, is on the agenda. I am looking forward to play with you in any way possible. ·What is a visual language for social and sustainable change? ·What visuals methods, tools and skills are needed & emerging? ·What role could we as visual practitioners also play? …I am happy to explore these questions from now until the IFVP Chicago event / the VizThink event in Europe where I’d also be happy to host a session together with those with similar interest. Below you will find the main news:
A new website We have just launched our new website. Here you can check out how we see ourselves as a company and what value we offer. Take a look on www.biggerpicture.dk. You will find everything from services and products to knowledge and links about this exciting field - a field you will hear much more of in the future. You will certainly find something to inspire you and that you can use in your daily work.
A new education programme For the first time we offer our “Do It Yourself” programme as an open three-module training process. Over the past 3 years we have offered this type of service or training in specific companies. But from May 2008 we are offering three two-day modules over a three month period - where teachers, process consultants, coaches and managers are trained in the use of visual tools, methods and skills to improve meetings, projects, processes and communication. Read more on the website under “Do-It-Yourself”.
Inspiration workshops What are visual learning, visual language and visual thinking? What are visual dialogue tools and graphic facilitation? How can I use them in my organisation? Who uses them? Where? When? How? How does this relate to leadership, strategic communication and organisational learning? What can I learn on the Do-It-Yourself training? A lot of people are curious about these questions and we therefore invite you to join small workshops, where you can hear more, see examples and try it out yourself. Find out when and where on our website under “Sign Up”.
Creation of a Scandinavian Network We are convinced that this field will grow significantly in the coming years, both in the Nordic countries and internationally. Are you a visual thinker, practitioner or strategist who on a daily basis thinks and works with visual communication and learning, or are you an illustrator or graphic recorder who applies visualisation to workshops, conferences and board meetings, helping organisations translate complex issues into simple pictures? Or do you develop visual tools or processes. We hope we can together create a network of practitioners dedicated to the visual concept. Do you know people in the Scandinavian region who’d be interested? See the date on the website under “Sign Up”.
Article: Kraft Foods gets ”Innovation Award” Bigger Picture has since 2006 contributed with visual process design and graphic facilitation to Kraft Foods internal innovation project: Joint Value Creation: We are proud to be mentioned in an article describing this award winning process. Read the full story on our website under “News”.
That’s all for now. Please share this newsletter with anyone you think may be interested. The next newsletter will be published just before the summer holidays. In it we will evaluate the results of the first half-year’s activities. We will also introduce some new tools and tell more about an upcoming conference in autumn 2008.