Group Techniques for Consensus

Kenichi Kato, Kengo Nara and Dripa Sjabana

22-27th June 2015 Asian Future Leaders Summit 8th,

Singapore

GROUP TECHNIQUES FOR CONSENSUS

SYSTEM THINKING

SCENARIO PLANNING

GROUP TECHNIQUES

FOR CONSENSUS

Definition of Strategic Business Acumen

1.Brainstorming

Generate Don’t

Evaluate

Blue Sky

Positive

Wild

Isolated

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• ・-

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• ・Interesting

Leader / facilitator

2. The DELPHI Technique

• Each Member

Take a position

• numeric

Summary• Feedback

Feedback

PROBLEM STATED

Mean or Median Scores

• Anonymous • written

Round stop criteria:

• Number of rounds

• Achievement consensus

• Stability of result

facilitator

3. The NOMINAL GROUP Technique

• Each Member

• In turn

States Idea

• Each member

• In turn

Discussion• Secretly

Ranked

PROBLEM STATED

TOP RANK IDEAS

• Non Anonymous • Verbally

4.Comparison for three methodsBRAINSTORMING DELPHI TECHNIQUE NOMINAL GROUP TECHNIQUE

What is… a group decision making process carefully designed to encourage all group members to contribute as many viable decision alternatives as they can think of.

a structured communication technique or method, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.

a group process involving problem identification, solution generation, and decision making.

Charactaristic・negative feedback is forbidden・freely and widely

・circulating questionnaires・sharing the questionnaire results・continuing to recirculate and refine individual response・not have group members meet face to face. ・among more skilled persons or experts

・every member of the group gives their view of the solution・duplicate solutions are eliminated from the list of all solutions・the members proceed to rank the solutions

Purpose discussing many ideas (not quality)

Integrating each ideas Ranking ideas

merit encouraging the expression of as many useful ideas as possible

ideas can be gathered from group members who are too geographically separated or busy to meet face to face.

with its secret ballot, offers a structure in which individuals can support or reject an idea without fear of recrimination.

demerit wasting the group's time on ideas that are wildly impractical.

members are unable to ask questions of one another.

there is no way of knowing why individuals voted the way they did.

5. Summary

Group Techniques

for Consensus

Brainstorming

The DELPHI Technique

The NOMINAL GROUP

Technique

Leaders/managers must carefully weigh the advantages and disadvantages of these 3 group decision making tools and adopt the one or some combination of the three - that best suits their unique organizational circumstances.