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This section of the Core Insight Culture Mapping process introduces a multi-step process designed to enable large or small groups to actively participate in sense making, idea generation and intervention choice and design processes. Subsequent pages are designed to clearly guide each step in that process.
The process makes use of small group discussions so that you are actively involved as much as possible. At the same time, you will get information from the other group discussions to help broaden how you make sense of the data.
Getting Started: What are you curious about?
Your first task is to choose one of the following from the list below. Pick one that you are most curious about how it could impact your work. When you click on it, you will be taken to the next page.
This is where the detailed instructions for the workshop will go. You can explain the process of reviewing narratives, identifying patterns, and capturing insights.
Narrative Title
This is a placeholder for the narrative text. It will be populated dynamically from the imported data.
Patterns
This is a placeholder for a captured pattern.
Framestorming
"There are no right answers to wrong questions." - Ursula K. Le Guin.
Framestorming is a process where you question the assumptions behind making sense of micro-stories in the previous task. This lets you come up with better questions to design interventions that accelerate your impact.
Step 1. Warming Up
Thinking of the range of micro-stories you read, discuss which type of stories you would like to see more of, as well as which type you want less of.
Then come up with a question about differences in the stories you read. E.g., “Why do we see ____ behaviors here, but not there?” Keep your question open – it should be one you don’t know the answer to, and it should not advocate for a solution dressed up as a question.
Click the Next button once someone has entered your group's question.
Framestorming
Step 2. Digging Deeper
With your question in mind, read through the descriptions of patterns and influences from all the breakout groups. Look for ideas from the descriptions that help you answer your question.
Other Group's Response
This is a placeholder for another group's response.
Framestorming
Step 3. Framestorming
Take your ideas from step 2 and your question from step 1 and read through the questions from the other breakout groups. Discuss:
- What do other questions reveal that we missed?
- Could we combine questions?
- What new possibilities do we see?
From your discussion, come up with another question and enter it below.
Other Group's Question
This is a placeholder for another group's question.
Voting on Questions
Read all the questions and vote for 3 you feel best frame the issues and offer possibilities to accelerate your impact. After you cast your votes, you will see how many votes each question received. (Your votes will show up with stars).
In your breakout group, briefly discuss why you think the top questions got the most votes.
Brainstorming
Below is a list of the top questions that frame possibilities for action!
Your breakout group task is to brainstorm ideas for interventions that would enable you to accelerate your impact. These might:
- Involve learning more about the issue the question addresses.
- Test hypotheses about if it is the right question.
- Solve the issue.
- Be a way to amplify or reward what you like that is already happening.
- Be a way to remove influences contributing to undesirable experiences.
These interventions can be something:
- Within your scope of authority,
- You can influence, or
- That you can raise at a higher level in the organization to get resources for working on it.
This is a brainstorming activity, so generate lots of ideas! They can be anything from very simple and obvious, to very complex and difficult. Capture ideas in the box provided and they will appear to the right of the text entry box.
Top voted question #1 (X Votes)
Brainstorm Interventions
Voting
Your next task is to vote on which ideas to implement. Cast up to 3 votes by clicking on the star.
Categorizing
Your next task is to categorize the brainstormed ideas. Consider whether the idea is small, medium, or large.
- Small: Clear and obvious enough so you can just go and do it?
- Is it within your scope of authority?
- Do you have the resources?
- Medium: Complicated enough so that it needs a structured process?
- Does it need collaboration with other stakeholders?
- Would you need to secure resources to do it?
- Large: Complex enough that it needs a fuller, in-depth design process, with a separate time slot and possibly extra support to work on?
- Is it inspiring, yet requiring the changes of larger systems?
- Are there unclear political tensions involved?
Read through each idea, then click on the S, M, or L to categorize it. (Click on the expand icon to read the full text).
Designing Interventions
Step 2. Design the Intervention
Take the chosen idea and use the design steps below to plan an intervention. To begin, consider:
- Who has the authority to go ahead and take action? (Decision makers and influencers)
- What resources are needed?
- Who else is impacted and how?
- Who can help and support?
Small
If your intervention is considered clear and obvious enough, and you have adequately answered the above questions, just do it!
Medium
If the intervention is considered complicated enough that it needs a structured design process, then the template provided from the link below provides support for the process. (The steps and questions are visible below as well).
Large
If the intervention is considered complex enough that it needs a fuller, in-depth design process, then it can be wise to set up a separate time and possibly extra support to work on it. The template can still help.
Intervention goes here
This is the proposed intervention text ...
Framing
- Framing the intervention so that you can communicate to people about it.
- Why do you want to make this change?
- What is the scope?
Stakeholders
- Who will be affected? (key stakeholder analysis)
- What do they care about?
- Where do their loyalties lay?
- What tensions or even losses might they experience from this change? (i.e., why hasn’t this been done before!)
Process
- Set out a process for feedback, inputs, and adjustments.
Plan
- Decide on a specific implementation plan.
- Who needs to be involved?
- Who is responsible for what?
- By when?
- What is the level of collaboration and process for it?
Impact
- How will you monitor impact?
Timeframe
- Set a time frame for the review of learning from the intervention.