Efficient use of expert's time. Diversity of ideals. Accuracy of solutions and predictions. It helps to overcome such problems as converging too quickly one one solution while overlooking others, participants dislike of meetings, incomplete evaluations, and the failure to confront tough issues. Two or more competing proposals are generated.
Members identify the explicit or implicit assumptions that underlie each proposal.
The team then breaks into advocacy sub, who examine and argue the relative merits of their positions. The main disadvantage is the tendency to forge a compromise in order to avoid choosing sides. Notes Copyright by Donald Clark, 2000. Created May 5, 1998. Last update September 21, 2000.