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BENEFITS OF THIS DOWNLOADABLE POWERPOINT DOCUMENT
- Learn how to perform the end-to-end process from bringing a team together to generating actionable output.
- Learn how random ideas and facts can be easily organized into meaningful and useful information.
- Learn how to develop a common base of knowledge and understanding across all team members.
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Affinity Diagram Overview
The Affinity Diagram is a method which can help you gather large amounts of facts, research, ideas from brainstorms, user opinions, user needs, insights, design issues, etc. and organize them into groups or themes based on their relationships. An affinity diagram stimulates discussion about a problem or issue, opening possibilities for improvement or solutions. It will help you go from complete chaos and no understanding of your data to creating logical groups that make sense of named and organized information, which is easily communicated and actionable.
What This Course Provides
This 27page course provides learners with a thorough understanding of the terminology and methodology associated with affinity diagrams. It is presented in FranklinGood's comprehensive and highly visual learning format. This course will help learners simplify idea generation, the analysis of complex data by grouping them, identifying connections and patterns, building a common understanding of the issue? all while building team consensus.
Learning Objectives
? Learn how to perform the end-to-end process from bringing a team together to generating actionable output.
? Learn how random ideas and facts can be easily organized into meaningful and useful information.
? Learn how to develop a common base of knowledge and understanding across all team members.
? Understand the multiple applications for affinity diagrams.
Extended Benefits from this Course
Our approach to affinity diagrams is very comprehensive. We teach you how to extend the power beyond the normal affinity diagram events. You will learn how to prioritize actions, assign responsibilities, and even how to develop cost benefits from your efforts. Included with the course is an Excel based tool to enable you with these additional benefits.
When team members cooperate to create an affinity diagram, some very important things tend to occur:
? A common base of knowledge and understanding is quickly developed.
? Every team member contributes.
? Communication is clear and easily understandable.
? Consensus is reached with less conflict.
? Action and results are more easily obtained due to the interactions, team effort and common understanding.
Affinity Diagrams can be used to:
? Find creative solutions to difficult problems by involving people from diverse fields.
? Sort through large volumes of confusing data and quickly organizing them in a logical, easy-to-understand format.
? Encourage the participation of everyone involved, which leads to uncovering new patterns of thinking and unique solutions.
? A leadership team can use during strategic planning to organize their thoughts and ideas.
? An improvement team can use the diagram to analyze the common causes of variation in a process
? Generate useful discussions that will lead to innovation/ effective solutions etc.
? Commonly used in project management to organize, analyze and prioritize ideas and tasks.
? Present your analysis to others in the company in an easy-to-understand manner
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Source: Affinity Diagraming PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation Slide Deck, FranklinGood
