Facilitation
We provide facilitation assisting groups or teams to make progress on a wide range of complex issues. Some examples are described below.
In facilitation we frequently use deliberative mapping. This refers to a family of techniques making use of visual representations of reasoning, created "on the fly" in workshop sessions using specially designed software. Techniques within this family include as dialogue mapping, argument mapping and decision mapping.
In facilitation we frequently use deliberative mapping. This refers to a family of techniques making use of visual representations of reasoning, created "on the fly" in workshop sessions using specially designed software. Techniques within this family include as dialogue mapping, argument mapping and decision mapping.
Decision Making
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Making important decisions can be difficult due to complexity, uncertainty, and disagreement among participants. We can help your organisation make difficult deliberative decisions (i.e. decisions involving weighing up options in the light of arguments pro and con) using our innovative decision mapping methods.
Read more about decision mapping. |
Scenario Thinking
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Good strategic planning recognises the importance of considering a range of possible futures. We have experience in conducting scenario thinking processes and can assist your organisation efficiently develop high-quality scenarios.
Our experience includes developing scenarios for extreme operational risks for a major bank, and assisting Defence in scenario thinking for long range planning. |
Expert Elicitation for Quantitative Estimates
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Expert elicitation is pooling judgements from domain experts to arrive at the best collective view. We have extensive experience in expert elicitation and can assist you by - for example - conducting elicitation workshops.
See this paper for a description of an exercise of this kind. |