Process development projects regularly encounter situations involving many people, many pieces of information and the need to rapidly produce project results.
	The detailed information may involve requirements, analysis, design, and/or planning.
	The situation may involve startup, a transition between project phases, or changes in team staffing, organization and/or project direction.
A frequently used approach in these situations is for a core team of process development professionals to put the detailed information together and then review it with a larger group of process stakeholders.
	Sometimes these reviews are conducted in a series of interviews, and sometimes in large meetings.
Standard Approach to Collaborative Solutions Development
The problem with this approach is that it often leads to a long repeated cycle of design and review.   The larger group gets new insights with each review, and adds more information, which requires another round of analysis, design and planning, followed by another round of review.
	The core of this problem is that the detailed work is done without the involvement of the people who provide the input and review the results.
The solution is to have a meeting or series of meetings in which process development work is done with the full participation of the process stakeholders.   They are the people who know the most about the process that is being developed or improved, and how changes to the process will affect their interests and the interests of the organization.
	This requires more than conventional meeting facilitation.   It requires a set of procedures that can quickly and reliably produce process development results in a meeting where not all the participants have specific skills in that area.

ActionMap has the necessary procedures: the ActionMap Toolkit.

	The ActionMap Toolkit is based on formal systems engineering techniques that have been enhanced for use in high energy group sessions.
	Because of this, ActionMap Toolkit sessions can be used to analyze, design, plan and review processes from very large organizational scales down to very fine technical details.
	The ActionMap Toolkit provides a complete, flexible work plan for aggressive step-by-step group creation of:
		Current process models and analysis
		Alternatives assessment
		Future process models and evaluations
		Implementation plans
	At the same time, ActionMap Toolkit procedures are geared to rapidly create high quality shared understanding, alignment and commitment to action, while fully respecting each participant's role, concerns and interests.

If your project has hit a bottleneck, if you want to avoid a long cycle of meetings on a key decision, or if you want launch a project phase quickly with a fast learning curve, ActionMap has what you're looking for.

Let ActionMap provide you with a demonstration session, so that you can see first hand
how our procedures accelerate project results.



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