| DESCRIPTION |
Improved Nominal Group Technique is a extension of
Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with an additional
pre-meeting stage which ensures full anonymity of contributions and
speeds up transcription phases.
Advance Preparation
- Clarify the purpose of meeting with a prior problem recognition
meeting, with anonymous input
- Circulate the agreed purpose of the meeting and request anonymously
submitted ideas on cards by a well-defined cut off time.
- Circulate a numbered word for word list of the ideas submitted
and request those participating bring to the meeting any additional
ideas (on cards) or proposals for varying or combining ideas. Explain
fully what structure the meeting have.
The Meeting
- Explain how the meeting will proceed and ensure all participants
have a pre-circulated list of ideas
- Collect anonymously any further ideas brought to the meeting
and add to existing set. Place all cards face down (those with no
ideas submitting a blank card) and shuffle. List all ideas on a
Flip Chart.
- Participants write yet more ideas privately, again on cards.
Adaptation or amalgamated of items may be proposed, but only permitted
if all agree – no discussion.
- Every few minutes, the leader gathers ideas anonymously and lists
them as described earlier. Writing continues whilst the leader records
the information from the cards onto the Flip chart. Repetition of
the writing/gathering rotation is maintained pending all the gathered
cards being blank
- Go through the full list of items, inviting observations on each
one within agreed time limits. Participants may consider giving
an explanation, or present a view for or against any item, however
debating is not permitted. Authorship remains anonymous and rules
for adaptation or amalgamation of items as per step 3 above continue
throughout. Addition of items suggested by the discussion is acceptable.
- Private voting takes place and participants list on a card the
item numbers of their top X items and ranks them in preferential
order. If you are trying to identify problems, X can be larger (e.g.
15% of the number of items). If you are trying to discover a solution
it could be smaller (e.g. 3-5 items).
Votes are tallied on a Flip chart once the cards are
returned face down and shuffled. Further categorisation and voting may
be needed, depending on circumstances.
[Source: www.mycoted.com] |