Compression Planning^® Squared

Compression Planning^® for large groups

The overall purpose of Compression Planning Squared is to get a wide base of feed back and creative input from a large number and wide variety of people – from customers, vendors, and suppliers to all levels of employees. The input is turned over to a smaller management team who determines how and when to implement the ideas from the session.

Where an individual Compression Planning session starts with a team of eight or ten and goes to a completion, CP² sessions use different teams for each session. Another purpose of CP² is to obtain validation to approaches that are being developed or considered. Opening ideas people generates feedback that reaffirms ideas, and can also take ideas in new directions. When multiple CP² sessions are involved, there might be a 50% overlap of ideas, but there will be a lot of different input from each session. CP² gets more people on board with new ideas, and generates large amounts of energy behind concepts.

Each company and project may need to employ different CP² approaches depending on what part of development they are in and what their goals are. There are three CP² approaches:

Single Sessions
Consecutive Sessions
Simultaneous Sessions

If time is of the essence, Simultaneous Sequential Sessions or Large Single Session approaches are most useful. But if an idea or company is brand new, and there is time for development, Linear Sequential Sessions are highly efficient. Whichever approach is utilized, your company can make CP² entirely its own.