Analysis
Representing and understanding opinions
Knowledge and experience of members of an organization are an important potential. From their experience with daily routine in their working environment, people know about specific aspects of their individual working processes. Since every person within an organization has his/her ... Weiterlesen...
Navigating in the conceptual landscape
The jumbled answers of the interviewees are represented as a conceptual network. The nodes of this network are concepts, which are connected by associations between them. This conceptual network acts like a map providing orienation in the landscape of opinions. ... Weiterlesen...
The Gestalten-tree
The Gestalten-tree orders the utterances of all those involved. The contents and the top of the gestalten tree shown are particularly important because they correspond to a large number of opinions and experiences of individuals interviewed. Structuring the verbal data ... Weiterlesen...
The evaluation lists
In normal language texts value judgements are also expressed: properties, objects, qualities, situations or processes are not only described by the persons affected but also judged/evaluated. These judgements/evaluations are collected in different lists (exclusively positive valuations, predominantly positive valuations, dominantly ... Weiterlesen...
The causal network
Normal language texts do not only express descriptions and evaluations, but also assumptions concerning causes and effects. They express attitudes concerning causal connections that have been gained on the basis of empirical experience gathered over longer periods of time or ... Weiterlesen...
The relevance analysis
Which project results are particularly important? In order to be able to answer this question we suggest three criteria: Characteristics/properties or relationships that occur on the highest level of the gestalten tree are more significant than those that only occur ... Weiterlesen...