Archive for 'Tools & Techniques' Category
CI Tools – Peer Assist
Posted by webmaster 2 May 2009A Peer Assist is a process where a person or team of people working on a project or activity calls a meeting or workshop to seek knowledge and insights from people in other teams. This is viewed as a knowledge management tool and was first coined peer assist through its application in British Petroleum.
Peer assists [...]
CI Tools – Reverse Brainstorming
Posted by webmaster 2 May 2009Reverse Brainstorming helps you solve problems by combining brainstorming and reversal techniques. By combining these, you can extend your use of brainstorming to draw out more creative ideas.
To use this technique, you start with one of two “reverse” questions: Instead of asking, “How do I solve or prevent this problem?” ask, “How could I possibly [...]
CI Tools – Ritual Dissent
Posted by webmaster 2 May 2009
Ritual Dissent is one of the open-source methods developed by Cognitive Edge.
The method is a forced listening technique involving no dialogue or discourse. It has been designed to test proposals, plans, ideas, etc by subjecting them to a ritualised dissent from group members.
A spokesperson for the proposal presents to a group who then listens in [...]
CI Tools – Blogs
Posted by webmaster 2 May 2009What’s the best way to describe a blog? You’re looking at one right now.
The VPSCIN “website” is in fact a Web Log or Blog – a type of website, usually maintained by with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order, [...]
CI Tools – The 4 I’s to Innovation
Posted by webmaster 24 March 2009The CIN’s Sue Wiliiams of DSE in collaboration with the Carnegie Management Group, has drafted up a simple process called the 4 I’s to Innovation to assist organisations grow, develop teams and provide an impetus for transformation and career progression.
The 4 I’s comprise the following Steps:
Identify
Involve
Innovate
Implement
Key elements of each are described in the document attached: [...]
CI Tools – DOCA
Posted by webmaster 4 March 2009The DOCA is the final tool in the DATT strategic thinking suite of tools.
This tool is a valuable one to end any thinking session you have had. The DOCA looks at the outcome of our thinking and the action steps that need to follow. The tool helps us to establish:
What are we going to do?
How [...]
CI Tools – RAD
Posted by webmaster 18 November 2008The RAD, or Recognise, Analyse, Divide is one of the DATT suite of strategy thinking tools. This tool helps the user to look for the things that are familiar in a new situation. As soon as we can recognise something, the better handle we can get on how we might deal with it.
The RAD consists [...]
CI Tools – FIP
Posted by webmaster 7 October 2008The FIP, or First Important Priorities is one of the DATT suite of thinking tools. This a a very handy tool to use, particularly when priorities guide action, choices, decisions and design work.
In anything that we do different things have different priorities and levels of importance. The FIP narrows down long lists to those that [...]
CI Tools – APC
Posted by webmaster 1 September 2008The APC, or Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices is the one of the DATT suite of tools. This tool is used in the process of deliberately trying to find alternatives and different ways of doing things. The APC is not used to search for a single alternative, but a range of alternatives, so we do not rest [...]
CI Tools – AGO
Posted by webmaster 12 August 2008The AGO, or Aims, Goals, Objectives in one of the Direct Attention Thinking Tools (DATT) developed by Edward de Bono. Although there are minor differences between each of these three words, in tandem they provide the essence of the tool which is to look at establishing where you are going. The AGO helps to define [...]
CI Tools – KVI
Posted by webmaster 5 August 2008The KVI or key values involved is one of the DATT strategic thinking tools. This tool is used to look at the various values involved in a situation, both positive and negative. “Values,” in the instance of a KVI, are more closely aligned with benefit, as opposed to “organsational values” such as professionalism & integrity.
The [...]
CI Tools – Logframes
Posted by webmaster 30 July 2008A logframe or Logical Framework approach provides a structured and logical means for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes, projects and workplans. They are very useful in providing mental prompts to help separate goals, purpose, outputs and activities.
The logframe also helps to ensure that the purpose is within reach (i.e. specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and [...]
CI Tools – Word Clouds
Posted by webmaster 29 July 2008The graphic above is a “word cloud” that has been extracted from a random sample of the CIN evaluation via narrative capture in 2007. These clouds give greater prominence to the words that appear more frequently in the source text you provide. The more often a word appears, the bigger it is in the cloud.
While [...]
CI Tools – C&S
Posted by webmaster 23 July 2008The C&S or Consequence and Sequel tool is one of the DATT suite – a series of shorthand commands for complex undertakings. The C&S helps us to make a deliberate effort to consider the consequences of an action or decision. The C&S is a primarily an evaluation tool, but can also used in prediction and [...]