Archive for the 'Experience sharing' Category

Making decisions and meetings work

Published on March 29, 2010 in Experience sharing. 0 Comments

Lots of good stuff in this McK Quarterly interview with Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein and interviews on strategic decision making.

  • The premortem: we’re in the future looking back, why did this project fail so badly?
  • Avoid correlation errors: get people to vote on an issue before the meeting starts. Or maybe use the balance sheet approach.There is lots more detail on avoiding bias.
  • Check that information is coming from multiple sources, not the same repackaged.
  • Force choices: try three people for a new job, use a portfolio approach for projects

Code list management service

Published on March 11, 2010 in Experience sharing and Local government. 0 Comments

Interesting work by the Police on standard taxonomies and controlled lists, but how does it relate to what NPEP was doing and what local government has done?

Participate rather than worry about how participation might work

Published on January 27, 2010 in Engagement and Experience sharing. 0 Comments

A lot of thought goes into working out how to govern groups of people: the argument here is that you should let structures emerge within a broad framework, rather than try to nail down all the whys and wherefores. Participants really shouldn’t see the process: it should be transparent.

How to generate and communicate thought leadership

Published on November 6, 2009 in Experience sharing. 0 Comments

Nice summary of some good consultancy reports from IBM and Deloitte.