Implemento can provide individuals and teams with the benefit of hindsight prior to taking action; it enables us to see into the future and gain clarity around what will happen should a specific action be taken. This allows us to redesign our intended actions with likely outcomes in mind. The tool combines rigorous situation analysis with an opportunity for innovation and 'making it up'. These two activities generally reveal a surprising perspective and clarity in the matter giving us insights into what we know that we did not know we knew. It is this aspect of it that helps us push back our learning edge.
As a result of using Implemento, individuals and teams benefit from:
- Insight into the consequences of actions
- Improved preparation before the action is implemented
- The emergence of knowledge that we didn't know we had
- Appropriate measures for the actions
- A new set of actions enabling successful redesign
Implemento is an invaluable tool that is best used:
- To improve, refine or learn about actions we are about to take
- When we don't know what to do - the way to get started is to ask yourself what someone you know would do and start from there
- When we want to compare two or more possible actions we might take
- To break a dilemma which has you stopped
- To develop a venture or discipline resulting from a TransforMAP conversation