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One of the most daunting tasks facing any working group is how to create and implement a common framework that will guide their actions. We believe that Concept Mapping is the solution to this dilemma as our Concept Maps visually organize the ideas of a group or organization.

Whether you are conducting strategic planning, trying to create a new training program, or attempting to improve the performance of your workforce, you will need a way to bring together the different stakeholders in your organization and help them rapidly form a shared vision for future actions.

How do most organizations do this today?
They conduct seemingly endless committee meetings and focus groups that end up with walls covered with newsprint. Concept Mapping solves this problem effectively and efficiently by using state-of-the-art technology and processes to enable participants to have their say individually, and rapidly integrate their input into a common strategic vision.

Concept mapping and pattern matching are both the processes and the graphic results of a group's problem solving efforts in the Concept System--results that people understand, interpret, agree to and use. Here you can discover the benefits of the Concept System approach and learn about concept mapping and pattern matching.

Using our proprietary software and proven group processes your organization can conduct your planning and decision making efforts faster, more comprehensively, more objectively and with much more satisfying results.

Creating A Concept Map
It takes only a few simple steps to create a concept map.

1) Facilitators and participants identify the focus of the project, such as the components of a new training program or the strategic performance objectives for their organization;
2) The group brainstorms ideas over the web using our proprietary Internet software or in a facilitated group session using the Concept System Core Program;
3) Selected participants organize the ideas by sorting them into groups of related items and then rate them according to priority or relative importance (or on other scales as necessary);
4) The Concept System Core Program uses state-of-the-art analytic methods to map the ideas for the entire group, providing a single graphic that acts as a roadmap or blueprint for subsequent work;
5) Participants interpret the maps, discuss how the ideas are organized, and identify the critical high-priority areas (called Go-Zones);
6) The organization uses the results to organize for action, examine consensus, and evaluate subsequent actions.

Reading A Concept Map
Concept Maps take an enormous amount of information and consolidate it into a concise, readable graphic. By working with concept maps, a group of people can rapidly explore the relative importance (or other factors) of different ideas and use this shared vision as the basis for further action.