The make up of the second session was significantly different. This session was broken into smaller (new) groups and rooms. It was important that the overall make up of the group profile be maintained, as far as possible with equal skills and
qualifications dispersed across the groups. Six performance measures of significance were identified in the first session and as a result six groups of five were required so each group could deal with two distinct performance measures. If more or less topics had been identified from the initial session, the number of groups would have been varied accordingly. However, it was important to try and keep the group profile as consistent as possible.
This decision-making scenario topic is a lot more difficult to penetrate than the initial performance measure topic. The group of experts was asked to assess the decisions that one associates with a given performance measure. If a decisionmaking scenario was thought to be significant by both groups considering a particular performance measure, then that decision scenario was considered significant.
The significant decision-making scenarios were more difficult to identify. Each performance measure from the above listing was put before the expert groups and the KJ method was applied. Two separate groups considered each performance
measure and identified related decision-making scenarios. The significant decision scenarios were those identified by all groups. A synopsis of the findings is outlined in chapter 8.