Friday, December 7, 2012

Affinity Diagram - Gathering & grouping ideas I

Why use it?
To allow a team to creatively generate a large number of ideas /  issue and then organize and summarize natural groupings among them to understand the essence of a problem and breakthrough solutions.

What does it do?

  • Encourages creativity by everyone on the team at all phases of the process
  • Breaks down longstanding communication barriers
  • Encourages non-traditional connections among ideas / issues
  • Allows breakthroughts to emerge naturally, even on long-standing issues
  • Encourages "ownershop" of results that emerge because the team creates both the detailed input and general results
  • Overcomes "team paralysis," which is brought on by an overwhelming array of option and lack of consensus

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