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Article #646Re: interesting groupware reference
From: David Dick
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 22:05
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 22:05
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!usc!rutgers!mcnc!decvax!zinn!ubbs-nh!siia!drd From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference Message-ID: <1990Jan5.220525.9114@siia.mv.com> Date: 5 Jan 90 22:05:25 GMT References: <10211@zodiac.ADS.COM> <129710@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Software Innovations, Inc. Lines: 19