The platform is built for consequential, multi-stakeholder decisions - where the cost of getting it wrong could be significant and the people who need to commit to the outcome have different perspectives, priorities, and constraints.
Core Features
The following features operate across the platform.
Workflow-Driven
Each step from start-to-finish is proposed to the Decision Designer so the right thing is done at the right time in the right way.
Personalized
The software learns and recognizes each individual's thinking on every item at each step in the design process. Encrypted in the database, only the individual can see their inputs.
Three Collaboration Depths
Restrict the process to a defined group. Allow others to provide input and optionally see work-in-progress. Or allow everyone input into each step and see the results before moving to the next step.
Automation
The software recognizes when administration actions needs to be taken and performs them. For example, agreed assumptions are placed onto the Foundation Document. Agreed goals are placed onto the Outside In Scorecard. New actions are placed onto Action Roadmap.
Guiding Hand
Knowing what needs to be done, by who, and when, the Decision Designer is notified before due dates to keep the decision design moving with full engagement.
Templates
Pre-built templates for common decision types — strategy, policy, project charter, and more — give the Decision Designer a starting point with the right scope, participants, and process already configured.
Multi-Lingual
Anyone can participate from any location around the world in their native language.
Integrated Email
A secure email server enables all required communications to be managed from the software.
Email Templates
A pre-defined email template exists for every standard communication point with the leader, core team, and participants.
The Steps
The following steps can be conducted over a few hours or a few weeks. Each group's topic and needs differ, but the steps remain the same.
1. Scope
A group design of goals and actions is a unique response to a unique set of needs. As with any engineer-to-order product, the process needs to be given a sufficiently complete and accurate description of the situation, the context, and requirements.
2. Pinpoint
The situation's data and opinions need to be collected, from which the subset of which to discuss and in what sequence needs to be determined for the group to be positioned to design the best possible goals and actions.
3. Design
Group-based goals and actions require dialogue, different for different opinions and states. The participants are positioned to have the most effective and efficient dialogue, preventing the negative and fostering the positive aspects of group decision-making dynamics.
4. Correct
During implementation, a group decision's fit, feasibility, and alignment decrease, for at least nine reasons. Periodic drift corrections identify where and why drift has occurred so the group can respond to it.
5. Learn
Each additional Group Design adds to the big data explaining how an organization's personnel convert data and opinions into goals and actions. Their 'group decison signature' can help adapt the process to their preferences and identify where they need to change.
Scope
Clarification of the situation requiring a shared response.
Situation Description
A guided Q&A with an AI synopsis enables leaders to state their need
The group starts with an accurate and complete charter.
The System of the Topic
The Schelling Map is a visual depiction of the group's topic is generated.
The visual representation aids accuracy and completeness.
Opinion Prompts
The prompts to surface opinions across the topic's system are generated.
Comprehensive topic coverage
Pinpoint
Identification of what needs to be discussed to design the best possible goals and actions.
Opinion Gathering
People respond to the prompts where they have views and thoughts - with full anonymity.
Avoid the problems in other forms of opinion gathering and sharing
Automated Condensing
Custom AI identifies the individual opinions, themes, and de-duplicates them.
Rapid, accurate, complete collection of each distinct opinion expresed.
Opinion Analytics
View of the opinion cloud from different angles
Deep insight into your group's thinking (without exposing anyone.)
Automated Analysis
A comprehensive explanation of the group's thinking at the click of a button.
Custom AI and critical thinking logic draws objective conclusions of what the group thinks about the topic.
Design
Use the right dialogue to surface the optimal goals and actions.
Agenda Designer
Proposal of what to discuss, in what order, to be able to design optimal goals and actions.
Effortless, correct agenda design.
Confirm the Cost of Inaction
Converge on a single, agreed, accurate assessment of the Cost of Inaction
Essential for commitment to the process and design.
Goal Clarification
Custom AI and syntax parsing logic simplify the act of clarifying important goals.
Goals without target values are of little value.
Reconcile Non-likemindedness
Use a new technique for turning non-likemindness into alignment.
Increase natural convergence, decrease authority and failed convergence.
Action Roadmap
From Collective Intelligence to Coordinated Action
Visualize the journey before committing.
Adjust the design as conditions require
Drift Correction
Identify alignment changes during implementation.
Sustain optimal as the world changes
Some of the highest-leverage analytics your organization will produce.
Analyze
Add the latest decision process data to your private datalake
Your decision data lake grows as a byproduct
Answer Questions
Use the big data to answer important questions
Reduce quality leaks where automation is unavailable
Decision process improvement
Automation, rules-based systems and AI-enhanced workflows are being adopted at the tactical and operational layers.
The best Group Design requires private wisdom, knowledge, nuance, and know-how, processed through convergent, generative dialogue.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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What does SchellingPoint's software do?
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Can Optimal GDM be used without software?
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Is the software a replacement for training?
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What does the software do that people cannot?
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Do we need to learn Optimal GDM to use the software?
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How is this different from digital whiteboards, canvases and other collaboration tools?
