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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
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Date: 5 Jan 90 22:05:25 GMT
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prohaska%lapis@Sun.COM (J.R. Prohaska) writes:

>I have not read David Sling's, but it makes me think of Delphi...

>The goal of the method was to get the group of informed people to
>converge in their prognostications.  A Facilitator devised a
>questionnaire and had each person fill it out and return it to him.
>These were copied and distributed to all.  Then a second round took
>place where everyone answered the questionnaire again.  Apparently,
>after a small number of cycles, a fairly useful consensus often
>emerged that subsequently proved to be largely on target.

How does this avoid turning into Groupthink?  Didn't David
Halberstam write a book called something like "The Best and the Brightest"
about how the US Vietnam experience was a result of "groupthink"?

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc [the Software Moving Company(sm)]
drd@siia.mv.com