Contemporary business is complex, diverse and dynamic compared to decades ago. As the history of VT/GF described early on, VT/GF emerged when people need to solve problems involving expertise with diverse backgrounds. The creative process of solving novel problems is non-linear and even non-rational. Big paper offers scope in recording and communicating the flow of a meeting for a broader organization (Valenza, C. and Adkins, J., 2009).
In front of the participants, Visual Thinkers/Graphic Facilitators spread out all of the “elements” reflected from the verbal and nonverbal information. People can simply make a good use of their innate visual abilities (section 2.2) to browse through the sea of information in graphics, and find out relevant points and coherence which make meanings to them. This is what we do every day to predict the surrounding factors, and Visual Thinkers/Graphic Facilitators simply take advantages of the natural talent for people to thread through rather complex issues in a group level phenomenon.
The emphasis lies on creating design documents that can be understood by people from different backgrounds, and that provide a visual overview so that important factors are not lost in lines of words (Stapper P. et al., 2005). Compared to VT/GF, vocalized ideas are merely bits of vibrating air. Visual thinkers catch elusive information, record them on the paper and make them accessible as drawings. People then can always build on each other's work or opinions without losing any positive details. It can involve wider groups of stakeholders in the process of creating fresh decisions (Valenza, C. and Adkins, J., 2009).
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