Key Benefits
Common benefits resulting from the use of Angler are:
- Enhances thinking by helping participants overcome cognitive biases
- Records differing views, quantifying differences
- Supports meetings that are spatially and temporally distributed
- Broadens participation, improving workshop results
- Reduces time and travel needed to support workshops
- Encourages more complete thinking (coverage) by leveraging corporate memory of previous workshops to identify unexplored areas
- Fits into each participant’s schedule, allowing them to contribute when convenient
- Complex workshops are supported by interrelating simpler workshops (both hierarchically and linearly)
- All that is needed to participate is a computer with a web browser and network access
- Intuitive, consistent, and easy to use
Applications
Common applications for Angler:
- Scenario Based Planning
- CrisisPaths
- Narrative Reasoning Techniques
- SEAS Argument Template development
- Focus Groups/Brainstorming
- Scanning for Weak Signals
- Innovation Workshops
- Sense Making
... and in general, knowledge tasks where a group of subject matter
experts must be brought together to expand their collective thinking on
a given topic
