Name: STO Workshop Template
SKU: DYC010308
Availability: InStock

Key Benefits of the STO Ideation Template

What is the difference between strategical, operational and tactical approaches? Strategical aspects? The terms “strategical,” “tactical,” and “operational” are often used to describe different levels of planning and action.

Strategical aspects focus on the long-term goals and the overall direction of an organization or operation. The scope is broad and high-level, often involving major decisions that affect the entire organization. The time Frame is usually long-term, typically spanning several years. Examples are: setting the vision and mission of a company, deciding to enter a new market, mergers and acquisitions and large-scale resource allocation.

Tactical aspects deal with the implementation of strategies through specific actions and plans. The scope is medium-level, focusing on the execution of strategic plans through detailed activities. The time frame is medium-term, typically spanning months to a few years. Examples are developing marketing campaigns, creating new product development plans, implementing new IT systems and coordinating departmental efforts.

Operational aspects involve the day-to-day activities and processes that ensure the organization runs smoothly. The scope is narrow and focused on short-term activities. The time frame is short-term, typically spanning days, weeks, or month. Examples are: managing daily production schedules, handling customer service inquiries, conducting quality control and managing inventory.

Can you also use those differentiations in an ideation workshop, to illuminate ideas and to select the best (most likely successful) idea or suggestion? Yes, our STO ideation workshop template shows you how to accomplish this!

Use our professional STO template for ideation meetings:

If you want to illuminate ideas using a strategical approach.
If you have developed good ideas, and now need to select the best ones
If you anticipate that there is lots of disagreement on certain suggestions, then the STO method can help to structure the discussion.

Strategically illuminate ideas- use the STO method to select the most suitable idea

Features and advantages of the STO workshop template:

Features: 4 different layouts, each with further variations, total of more than 30 slides.
Advantages: Proven-to-work workshop method, and at the same time nice-to-view with hand-drawn vector graphics.
Benefits: Short-cut endless and fruitless discussions with moderation tools that work.

Included in the STO Template are:

The STO template itself in four different layouts, each with additional variations.
An explanation on how to use in ideation meetings.
Several examples for you as best practice guideline for meetings, presentations, annotation.
Included is one vectorized PDF-file with the ready-to-use templates, the explanation and the filled examples. The PDF can easily be uploaded to any whiteboard system and is intended to short-cut your efforts: upload and start your workshop directly!

Included are all slides as ready-to-upload SVG files, plus all single SVG files with transparent background so that you can create any kind of workshop template yourself. The SVG files can be easily uploaded to any online collaboration software such as Mural, Miro or to any presentation software such as PowerPoint.

Included is one PPTX-file with more than 30 editable slides including the templates, the explanation and the filled example. The PowerPoint version can be fully edited and then uploaded to your whiteboard system. Alternatively, of course you can use this PowerPoint version for creating professional presentations or your own workshop templates as well.

Requirements for the STO ideation workshop template :

You can use the vectorized PDF in any software that can open or import PDF formats.
The SVG files can be used in all graphics, presentation, annotation or collaboration software that can import SVG file types.
You need PowerPoint or similar software to open the PPTX file.