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Contact:
Paul Culmsee
http://www.sevensigma.com.au/contact-us.html

Phone: +61 8 94742601

Seven Sigma’s unique sensemaking methods continue to impress in the public sector. Most recently we have been engaged by the WA Department of Transport to provide strategic advisory, envisioning, problem structuring and goal alignment services for a long term, key ICT project. By applying a unique combination of the principles of Breakthrough Thinking with the craft of Dialogue Mapping and Seven Sigma’s own problem structuring techniques, we provide a rigorous, systematic process that allows the project team and stakeholders to rapidly converge to a shared understanding of a complex, multifaceted project.

Breakthrough Thinking is a systematic problem structuring method that aligns particularly well with traditional project management methodologies. It is described by its authors (Nadler and Hibino) as “extending the creating process to determine the right purposes to be accomplished, generate a large number of imaginative and useful options and develop the systems you need to implement effective solutions”.

Dialogue Mapping is a novel facilitation method, practiced exclusively by Seven Sigma, that allows groups to better deal with the sort of tricky, complex problems that typically cause a group stress, chaos and pullback. This is achieved by a trained dialogue mapper, facilitating the conversation, while capturing the various threads of an issue and then expressing it visually in the form of an argument ‘map’. This visual map represents the collected rationale in a simple, easy to understand form that allows participants to see all of the points of view in a cohesive fashion. The ultimate purpose of the map is to capture and share the collective knowledge of all the participants without prejudice. The map is presented in a format that can be easily understood by all observers.