Developing collective intelligence

How to use group dynamics to make the right decisions?Organizations evolve in a context of change uncertainty and complexity. Employees need to understand what is at stake and to participate in decisions. However if managers and leaders need to mobilize collective intelligence to succeed they have little or no training in working in large groups.Collaborative design is a development process involving stakeholders. Workshops led by facilitators from within the company or from external firms take place during seminars lasting one or more days. In a complex situation such as a merger the reframing of a project a business choice the launch of a product the development of an organization or the implementation of a strategy they bring together from fifteen to more than one hundred and fifty participants around an objective: to analyze the situation to find out how to deal with and solve a problem to produce shared representations or decisions and to commit to action.This book is based on the author's proven practices. It will help executives and managers co-design and co-facilitate these workshops so that they produce tangible results. Very concrete it is illustrated with various cases such as a large aeronautical company a research laboratory an industrial SME a professional group a cooperative or a school.After an introduction on collaborative design it is organized into four parts:1. Understanding imagining and giving meaning2. Planning projecting and giving substance3. Expanding improvising and giving rhythm4. Planting growing and sustaining lifeEach of the twenty-seven practical sections can be approached independently thanks to a common plan: issues keys and examples.The book is prefaced by Gabrielle Rolland consultant in change management speaker and writer on leadership and collective intelligence and author of Seniors votre avenir a un futur (Laffont 2009).