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Universal Methods of Design
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Universal Methods of Design

by Bruce Hanington, Bella Martin
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
8h 23m
English
Rockport Publishers
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SYNTHESIS / ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE

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When the traditional meeting format fails to achieve group consensus, the KJ Technique can be used to help teams work through a problem space and prioritize what should be focused on first.1

The KJ Technique is a consensus-building exercise that helps teams organize a complicated range of ideas and information. When used as a format for a team meeting, the KJ Technique is an effective way to externalize all of the information that is in everyone’s heads, and then organize and prioritize the data in a way that builds group consensus.

In traditional meetings, there is rarely enough time for a problem ...

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