Designers learn the value of sketching early in their careers. Sadly, business practitioners never get the same experience. Sketching is fundamental to the problem solving process.
As any good statistician will tell you: more data is not better data. But more data when intelligently analyzed, probed, manipulated and mastered can be extraordinary data. What really interests me is not the fact that we have more of anything (or everything), but the idea that we can potentially do more with what we have.
Designers learn the value of sketching early in their careers. Sadly, business practitioners never get the same experience. Sketching is fundamental to the problem solving process.