Work Products Overview

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Work Products Overview 

• Work Products (that can be taken away and used after the meeting)
  • Work Product Outputs in PowerPoint and Excel
  • Work Product Export and Import as Encrypted Dataset
  • Data Structure
• Process Maps
• Lists
• Discussions

Work Products (that can be taken away and used after the meeting)

ActionMap group Sessions produce two types of results:
     ▪ People results:  understanding, agreement and commitment to take action 
     ▪ Work Products:  information that supports the people results and that can be taken away and used after the meeting.

The primary types of work products are described below.
 

Work Product Outputs in PowerPoint and Excel

The software produces three main types of formats in PowerPoint and Excel  

Maps (PowerPoint) Lists - with two main types (Excel) Map Parts and Evaluations, with Priorities Proposed Changes, with Priorities Action Plans (Excel) More information on export to PowerPoint and Excel can be found here.

Schematic of the External Work Products

Work Product Export and Import

Work Products can be exported as encrypted data sets and re-imported for continued use. More information on "Export to Encrypted Data-set" can be found here.  As seen here the Main Page has two major panels: Map on the left and List on the right.  These are two ways of looking at the information captured in  group Sessions.

Main Page Schematic

Main Page Example

Data Structure / The underlying data is organized in the following way.

  Map and Plan Areas 

ActionMap Work Products are organized around Map and Plan Areas. A Map and Plan Area is an area of Activity that the group Session is focusing on for Process Mapping, Evaluation and Planning. Map and Plan Areas have the following data under them:   Process Maps, which have under them:   ▪ Map Parts, Evaluations, Notes and Priorities        (is a type of List)   ▪ Proposed Change Actions (this is a type of List)   ▪ Action Plans (this is a type of List)   ▪ Discussions (a separate panel for side notes)

 Process Maps

All Maps have the same basic format, described here:

Basic Map Layout

Notes on Process Maps  ▪  Probably 90% of all Sessions will produce strong results using only a single Map. ▪  Multiple Maps can be added to Map and Plan Areas to represent different time frames (current, future or plan) and different levels of detail (entire organization, single department, single function). Please Note:  In Full Release 1 we plan to add a feature to organize Maps into "Map Sets".  In Map Sets there will be "Top Maps" that cover a large area, and "Sub-Maps" that cover areas within that larger area. More information on Maps can be found at the page "Process Maps - Purpose, Format and Construction".

Example Map

Lists

There are three main types of Lists: ▪  Map parts and associated Comments and Priorities ▪  Proposed Changes and associated Comments and Priorities ▪  Action Items with Comments and assignments The Lists are displayed and built in several variations each, according to the group Session Activity that is being worked on. More information on Lists can be found at the page "Add Map Parts, Plan Parts and Comments".

List Example - Map Parts and Comments (shown partly scrolled down into the List)

Discussions

The Discussion panel has two main purposes: ▪  To collect comments and Notes that are about the Session itself instead of the Session content. ▪  To collect comments that are not related to the Session content. Notes: ▪  There is a single Discussion for each Map. ▪  An example of Discussion entries shown here.

Discussion Example

More information on Discussions can be found at the "Discussion Panel" topics on the Main Page Overview.

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