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“the means whereby some act is accomplished” - WordNet

Process facilitation

 

Dialectical thinking

The Ghost of Aristotle 

This is useful to help people work through he habit of constantly trying classify or categorise things. The difficulty is once they’ve categorised things they feel they no longer have to thing anymore.

 

Unhooking processes

Edward De Bono, the man who coined the term ' lateral thinking', also waxes lyrical about the traps of dialectical thinking driven to excess.

See particularly his books: Parallel Thinking and Water Logic. They contain some useful tools for facilitating and mediating processes.

Most book shops carry a selection of his books as Penguin editions.

Useful is this tool based on 6 thinking hats for guiding thinking processes from the book of the same name. 

 

Knowledge Creating Companies

The knowledge creation process - A brief overview

I use this to structure processes.

 

Personal productivity tools

 

Getting Things Done

Links and resources related to the work of David Allen 

 

A thinking and writing tool  

SCRAP

Some claim it is simplistic, but this tool is a simple yet powerful way of directing your attention to solve problems 

 

 

General tools for personal or work situations

 

Problem identification

Based on the outputs of a series of workshops this article sketches some of the issues and some of the tools.

Problem Identification

 
Programme Evaluation Research

Starter Pack for programme evaluation research. Includes the Logic model template, see below. (File size is 2.8 MB, file format is ZIP archive.)
 
Programme logic model

Based on the work of Prof Johann Mouton - his extended programme logic model merged with the conc pet of a project planning matrix (eg ZOPP/GOPP/Log Frame/ PCM)

Logic Model template: now removed

Template: A basic document you use as a starting point. When you save it will always save as a new file and not overwrite the original.

Note: Save this file to 
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

It all depends on which version of MS Windows you are using.

Then choose within Excel File, New and select it from the list. Unfortunately Excel is not as user-friendly as MS Word so you may have to experiment a bit. Alternatively just save the file in an appropriate folder and double-click it to open. It will (usually) create a new file.

 

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