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NWORG Seminar: Lancaster July 15 > Dialog Mapping and Collaborative Modeling > Dr Jeff Conklin, Cognexus Institute, Washington DC. > > Monday 15th July 2002 at 15:30. Graduate Building B100, Management School. > > Traditional approaches to problem solving and design have assumed that the > problem was well-defined and the definition was stable. Increasing attention > is now being paid to "ill-structured" or "wicked" problems in which agreement > about the problem definition cannot be assumed. Wicked problems require an > approach which emphasizes communication among diverse stakeholders and > supports groups in making sense of the conflicting signals and priorities in > their environment. One such approach is hypertext-augmented collaborative > modeling, which combines three elements: one or more modeling frameworks > (formalisms, notations), hypertext software projected on a shared display > screen, and facilitation. The use of a facilitated shared display for > collective construction of "soft models" appears to efficiently create shared > understanding and shared commitment on wicked problems. We will explore the > dynamics of wicked problems (as revealed in empirical studies) and a specific > version of hypertext-augmented collaborative modeling, Dialog Mapping, which > uses the Issue Based Information System (IBIS) argumentation notation as the > modeling framework and QuestMap (TM) as the graphical hypertext software > tool. > > +++++++++++ > also > Dialog Mapping Training Workshop. > Lancaster University Management School. July 16 and 17th. > Trainer: Jeff Conklin, Cognexus Institute, Washington DC. > <http://cognexus.org> > For more information about the workshop and fees, see > http://cognexus.org/id22.htm and http://cognexus.org/id61.htm