Information gathering and analysis
Workshops typically consist of these stages: information gathering, analyses and synthesis, and action plans. These may vary according to the subject matter and professional practice situations being dealt with. Each of these is generic in nature and used in just about every methodology, technique, or tool one may encounter. Brainstorming types and the KJ Method are described in this section.
- Brainstorming is the first stage, with participants generating their ideas on the topic of focus on sticky notes—one idea per sticky note. It is a technique that helps groups to generate large amounts of information about any topic of interest, for the purpose of further analysis. It is typically followed by the KJ Method of clustering the information. This method is named after Jiro Kawakita who had devised this approach in 1960’s.
- Affinity Diagram (KJ Method) is the next stage and is used to observe affinity among like ideas, and cluster...
