Evaluate our replacement for traditional Group Design approaches by applying it to a real situation requiring a group-based response. This could be a strategy, policy, contract, operational change, unresolved problem, or unrealized opportunity. SchellingPoint provides the Design Guide and software; you provide the group and the situation. The Proof of Concept gives you firsthand experience of the process and how it prevents the quality leaks inherent in traditional approaches. You judge whether it produced the Best Possible goals and actions and whether they could have been produced without the framework and software. Where you identify a design quality gap between the traditional approaches and Optimal GDM, you can assess what it could have meant for implementation - missed outcomes, misdirected effort, delays, or avoidable rework. The Proof of Concept also provides a starting point for examining whether similar gaps in the quality of goals and actions are creating waste or leaving opportunities unrealized where Group Design occurs across your organization.
Integrate Optimal GDM into selected managerial decision-making processes, across your organization, or within your consulting or facilitation services. The engagement develops the knowledge and practical capability needed to make the approach part of regular work, with a scope that reflects where and how you intend to use it.
Establish, formalize, or expand a dedicated Group Design Center of Excellence—or incorporate Group Design into an existing Collaboration, Project Management, or related Center of Excellence. SchellingPoint supports the development of the internal function responsible for the process, methods, and quality of Group Design across the organization, providing a focal point for sustaining and improving the capability.
Establish a forum for people who lead, guide, or participate in Group Design to learn from one another’s work. Members share cases, identify recurring patterns surfaced by the software's data analytics, exchange practical lessons, and discuss improvements to their use of Optimal GDM. The community reinforces learning and supports greater consistency as experience grows across the organization.
Caliabrate the current Group Design capability of an organization, function, or team before beginning an improvement program. The assessment establishes a baseline of current practice and quality, identifies the organization's quality leaks profile, and provides a basis for prioritizing development and measuring subsequent improvement.
Put the operating arrangements in place to use Optimal GDM consistently across teams and functions. Adoption modules address role clarity, standard working documents and outputs, exception-based governance, and measures of Group Design quality. These provide a repeatable basis for using the approach at scale without requiring each team to invent its own arrangements.
