Benefits

Concept Star allows you to link ideas together and build a higher-level concept from a collection of seemingly disjoint ideas.

• Concept Star software ensures that all important ideas are dealt with in a logical and effective manner.
• Constructing the relationship map forces people to analyze, discuss, and make decisions. The final decisions are the result of many smaller decisions.
• Decisions can be made with confidence based on understanding and insight obtained from constructing the relationship model.
• Resources can be allocated in an efficient manner.
• It is easier to communicate your decisions and the reasoning behind them.
• Ideas to not need to be discarded prematurely. Concept Star can deal effectively with hundreds of ideas. It allows you to understand their relationships within the problem space, before making critical decisions.

Concept Star addresses most communication problems that plague a group problem solving environment, such as lack of common language and importance of buy-in of solutions.

• The pair-wise analysis of ideas encourages contributions from people with narrow, but deep, subject matter expertise, without them feeling overwhelmed by the extent of the issues. Concept Star sessions are intense learning experiences.
• The focus and logical structure to the discussion prevents over-emphasis of some ideas and insufficient time being allocated to others.
• Participants are able to understand the relationship of various ideas within the problem space. This results in greater appreciation for the ideas of others.
• Properly run Concept Star sessions are intense, but a lot of fun for the participants as they see the problem solving session as an exercise in exploration and logic rather than just trying to argue or explain their points to others.
• Participants gain a lot of knowledge about the problem and significant new insights during the Concept Star session.

Management consultants face a wide variety of situations where the client has a fuzzy problem that needs an effective process to formulate a solution. These problems generally span a number of departments or divisions. Concept Star process makes facilitation easier because it provides a structured method for involving people from various areas of expertise to come together and:

• Work in a co-operative problem solving environment to explore the issues and solutions
• Learn about other facets of the problems than their own
• Create a common language
• Make decisions that are supported by all members of the group

Typically, groups using Concept Star resolve a complicated problem in less than half the time that conventional decision methods would have taken. Other major benefits include rational discussion of the important issues and new knowledge sharing within the group. Concept Star is welcomed in the high technology industry as it shows the logic behind decisions.

Concept Star decision support system is easy to learn & use. Concept Star professional software and training package is reasonably priced and includes all materials needed to learn and use Concept Star effectively.