The Art of Insight and Action
Visual Modeling
for Complex Business Problems
Idiagram provides consulting and graphic design services to help our clients:

1 ) Think Clearly about complex problems
2 ) Communicate Effectively with the people who must act on those problems

We work with teams facing complex multi-faceted problems to:

  • Build a sophisticated systemic understanding of complex problems and opportunities
  • Develop broad strategic insight
  • Design more creative solutions
  • Make more effective decisions and more realistic plans
  • Build shared vision, ownership, and enthusiasm
  • Communicate effectively with others
  • Follow through on the vision

Doing these things well, and the synergy of doing them together, can have a profound impact on team knowledge, morale, and coordination.

Our approach revolves around the use of visual models – diagrams, posters, PowerPoint presentations etc. – to facilitate better thinking, communication and coherent action.

Our visual modeling process serves as a tool to help our clients:

 
Think Clearly
about the complex issues that are impeding their progress. By explicitly mapping out the elements of the problem, visual models enable us to to generate a broader, clearer, and deeper understanding. By revealing the dimensions problem and giving us a tangible model to work with, visual models can empower us to design more creative and effective solutions.
Think Together
We help teams forge a clear and coherent picture of their varied knowledge and diverse perspectives. By catalyzing conversation and supplying a common map of the issues in question, a good visual model can help teams realize the synergy of their collective knowledge, and inspire them to move forward with a shared sense of understanding, ownership and purpose.
Communicate Effectively
Ideas live or die by how well they're communicated. A well-structured visual story can help communicate your ideas in a clear and compelling way. Good graphics can grab your audience's attention and instill your ideas as visual-concepts: images that capture the essence of your ideas and that will be remembered long after your words have faded.
Generate Shared Vision & Coherent Action
Our graphics are not ends in themselves but tools for creating understanding and action. Inspiring coherent action – motivating people to self-organize and work in concert towards a common goal – requires shared vision. That shared vision – a common understanding of the issues, the goals, and the means to achieve them – is the source from which all sustainable and coherent action flows.
Put It All Together

Idiagram creates visual models, provides graphic facilitation for group processes, and functions as thinking-partners to help our clients deal with complex issues such as:

  • Strategic Planning & Decision Making
  • Leadership & Strategic Communication
  • Technology/Product Innovation & Design
  • Dialog Facilitation
  • Marketing & Sales Presentations

Through our varied design and consulting services:

  • Strategic Mapping
    of complex organizational, market, and technology landscapes

  • Graphic Facilitation
    of design, strategy, brainstorming & problem solving sessions, workshops, meetings, conferences, etc.

  • Illustration
    for books, articles, posters, PowerPoint presentations and web graphics

we create images that bring knowledge and people together - generating
understanding and insight, agreement and action.

To discuss visualizing your project, please contact:

Marshall Clemens

mclemens@idiagram.com

phone:   781 424-0349
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