A guide to the vocabulary
SchellingPoint's vocabulary describes the progression from recognizing a situation to producing impact—and the particular role of Group Design within it.
The complete lifecycle
The lifecycle begins when a signal draws attention to a situation and continues through the design, implementation and effects of the response.
A change, event, condition or information that may require attention.
The response mode determines whether further decision-making is needed. When a response is required, the decision mode determines whether to choose or design it.
SchellingPoint's field of focus
A situation in which multiple parties must contribute to, align around or coordinate the response.
A situation in which multiple parties must contribute to, align around or coordinate the response.
The professional practice and capability used to conduct GDM-Design.
GDM-Design: The decision-making discipline concerned with groups designing goals and actions.
The assumptions, goals and actions developed to respond to the situation.
Assumptions, goals and actions form one response. Weakness in any one of them can weaken the design as a whole.
What must be true, tested or accounted for.
What the response must accomplish.
What must be done to accomplish it.
How quality is judged
How closely the response addresses what the situation requires.
How capable the response is of being implemented and sustained.
Whether the necessary parties sufficiently support and can coordinate the response.
Why current approaches fall short
Different approaches make different levels of design quality available. The distinction is not simply whether a group reaches an answer, but how close that answer comes to the optimal response latent in the situation and the group's collective intelligence.
Traditional and current approaches
Groups construct a response from the contributions their current meetings, workshops and related methods make available.
41 currently identified
Process weaknesses that cause Design Quality to be less than optimal or best possible.
Modern Group Design
A valid framework that reduces Quality Leaks and makes a stronger designed response available.
Current result
What groups commonly produce through Constructive GDM.
Framework-enabled
Available through use of the Optimal GDM Framework.
System-enabled
The optimal designed response made available through software-enabled Optimal GDM.
Technically: OptimalThe Optimal GDM System
Completing the lifecycle
Response-to-Impact is the implementation of the designed response and the resulting effects.
Success depends partly on implementation quality—and partly on the quality of the response that was designed in the first place.