A key to developing a successful strategic plan is to be able to generate ideas to create a strategy. During the 1960s, Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada faced the prospect of economic ruin.
The fisheries had collapsed and the provincial government was considering ways to relocate the entire population of the island elsewhere.
Community members and government officials decided to try to create a strategy to save the island. It is summarized in a radio broadcast from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Listen to this program (about 50 minutes in length), then answer the following questions:
1. What role did arts play in the "Fogo Process?" According to the participants, how did the use of arts improve the decision-making process?
2. Identify a work of art or an artistic process with which you are familiar (e.g.,written word, painting, music, etc.) that could be used to promote the kind of thinking about strategic planning problems that made the Fogo Process successful.
3. Describe how that art or artistic process would work to promote more powerful strategic thinking.