Collapsing months of work into days happens when content knowledge and process expertise collaborate on achieving specific objectives. Great emphasis is focused on preparing for DesignShop events. This includes:
Agreeing to objectives that sponsors must achieve and can act upon. This is not about making recommendations for someone else to accomplish.
Selecting a broad set of interrelated participants to reduce down-stream risk of creating unworkable solutions or plans. The categories of participants should include people who will:
Approve or fund project,
Design the solution,
Build the solution,
Use or buy the solution,
Subject Matter Experts.
Conducting pre-session research and analysis to ensure expected challenges and questions can be addressed with facts, not just opinions.
Applying a facilitation model designed to support collaborative group work. This includes utilization of:
a facilitation method that encourages ideas to emerge and be tested by participants,
a work environment that is stimulating, adaptive, and supportive of individuals or a team of 100,
a timeframe that allows time-out-of-day job for participants so they can complete the work,
a cycle-of-work model that supports accountability through rapid deliverables with iterative refinement,
an agreed to architecture for the cycles-of-work process that is collaboratively created by organizational content and process expertise,
a knowledge management process to capture ideas from each round of work in a form that can be used as the starting point for the next round of work.
The AAHC, through a collaborative effort with the Vanderbilt Center
for Better Health at Vanderbilt University, is convening workshops specifically targeted...
