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SWARM Platform Team Analysis Guide

The document discusses the technique of "Contending Analyses" used on the SWARM platform to generate team reports. It explains that teams risk "groupthink" if members agree too early without independently considering different analyses first. The technique avoids this by having team members pitch alternative analyses against each other and select the most promising one. By harnessing cognitive diversity in this way, the team's result can be greater than any individual could achieve alone.

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SWARM Platform Team Analysis Guide

The document discusses the technique of "Contending Analyses" used on the SWARM platform to generate team reports. It explains that teams risk "groupthink" if members agree too early without independently considering different analyses first. The technique avoids this by having team members pitch alternative analyses against each other and select the most promising one. By harnessing cognitive diversity in this way, the team's result can be greater than any individual could achieve alone.

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SWARM Contending Analyses: an overview


Hi. By the time you see this training video, you should have an idea of what a good
report from the SWARM platform looks like. But how to get there?
Our technique is based on teamwork, so that participants can get a better result
than anyone could achieve by themselves.
But teams don’t always suceed. Everyone knows that when a committee sits down
to design a horse, it can end up with a camel.
So how do you end up with horses and not camels?
The biggest risk in making judgements as a team is groupthink.
We all want to get along, and there are a lot of good ideas so it’s easy to agree
with our teammates. But too much agreement too early, and the team can end up
with blinkers on, miss important details. Before you know it… camels.
The trick to avoiding groupthink is to think independently before coming together
to think as a team.
Contending Analyses means pitching alternative analyses against one another and
selecting the most promising.
The SWARM platform allows you to do this by actively bringing out differences in
your thinking and approaches, and following a rational procedure for comparing
the different possibilities.
By harnessing the team’s cognitive diversity in this way, we can get a result that is
greater than the sum of its parts – our answer will be a true thoroughbred.
In the next video we will describe in more detail how a good workflow on the
SWARM platform can make the most of cognitive diversity and Contending
Analyses.

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