Bernhard Schieber

Conversational cross-pollination

Knowledge

Conversational cross-pollination is the World Café practice in which participants carry ideas from one small-group round into new encounters, where they can be challenged, revised or combined. Movement between tables connects partial knowledge rather than merely distributing fixed reports from each table.

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Key concept

Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.

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Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

Executive Insight BriefWorld Café: Connect Distributed Perspectives Without Mistaking Recurrence for ConsensusRead the brief →

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