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What is TRIZ, When You Should You Use It, and Stop Doing the Counterproductive
TRIZ represents a methodology focused on innovative processes or product improvement. Use it when you need innovative...
Facilitating an Effective After-Action Review (AAR / Hot Wash): Agenda and Best Practices
An After-Action Review (AAR) is an effective tool for debriefing projects, programs, or other initiatives. It may also...
Balanced Scorecard Demands Strategy-Focused Facilitation
Five principles of successful organizations emerged from Kaplan and Norton’s research on successful Balanced Scorecard...
Payoff Matrix — Quick Wins, Tried and True, or Hail Mary Passes
Quick Wins are found in the Payoff Matrix shown in the “two by two” below provides the classic means of prioritizing...
Neuroeconomics and Neurofacilitation: Rational Decisions Maximize Utility
World scientists strive to map activity in the human brain. Presumably, a map of neural activity will shed light on...
Consensus does NOT Mean that Participants are Going to be “Happy”
A facilitator should typically avoid the term “happy”. Our effort guides a group to a common or shared understanding...
Facilitating ‘Genetic’ Differences: Similar Values with Different Priorities
Most meeting participants embrace a set of similar values with different priorities. The difference lies in their...
A Blueprint When Building Consensus Around All Types of Decision-Making
After reviewing some material about the optimal methodology (i.e., approach) for distribution planning, related to an...
A Facilitator’s Profile is Much Like an Innovator’s Profile — a Design Thinker
“Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t need weird shoes or a black turtleneck to be a design thinker . . .” so goes...
Context Diagram – A Consensually Built Picture Can Resolve a Thousand Arguments
Most of us have heard that a picture tells a thousand words. Consensually built pictures, especially those covering...
How to Facilitate Business Process Improvement Projects
If you or your group recognizes the opportunity to improve, you'll benefit from Change or Die - The Business Process...
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