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Opportunity Orchard
The term Oppotunity Orchard is a very recent addition to the mulitude phraseology utilised in the world of consultancy. It's roots lie in the extension of current management tools and their higher level application and extension.

To ‘chart one’s opportunity orchard’ is to take an ultra high level approach to policy decisions, using variant management disciplines, appraising potentially infinite number of interchangeable avenues, following them to conclusion and plotting their emergent aesthetic.

Consider if you will, a number of decision trees. Their roots may intertwine, but they stand alone as individual entities with their own mutually exclusive branches and outcomes. If one charts a route through a decision tree, and arrives at a prospective result, it may have an impact on – or be influenced by – the results of an entirely different decision tree exercise. To chart an opportunity orchard therefore, is to run multiple concurrent decision tree exercises, assessing the overall look and feel of the combined result.

This process should only be used at the highest level and holds its roots in strategic cogitation, as the level of detail and sheer resource volume required to conclude effectively is prohibitive.

Consultantspeak (talk) 10:19, 19 September 2012 (UTC)