Drawing Rich Pictures as a sense-making tool

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Drawing ‘Rich Pictures’ as a

sense-making tool

Paul Nunesdea | CEO groupVision | Optimizing group collaboration

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Session outline

• Intro & setting expectations

• Circle: What do we know about

pictures and diagrams?

• Presentation (10 minutes) –

Drawing rich pictures

• Circle: What do we know about

pictures and diagrams?

• Wap up and close

Rich pictures in a

nutshell

3 key ideas about SSM

• Notion of 'human activity

systems'.

• Compare systems models

with real world

• Out of this arises:

• a better understanding

of the situation

• and consensus for

action.

SSM techniques

Objective: learn the basic

techniques

Elements:

pictorial symbols;

keywords;

cartoons;

sketches;

symbols;

title.

Conventions

To help interpret a situation, choose symbols, scenes or images that

represent the situation.

Use as many colours as necessary and draw the symbols on a large

piece of paper.

Try not to get too carried away with the fun and challenge to your

ingenuity in finding pictorial symbols.

Put in whatever connections you see between your pictorial symbols:

avoid producing merely an unconnected set.

Places where connections are lacking may later prove significant.

Avoid too much writing, either as commentary or as word bubbles

coming from people’s mouths (but a brief summary can help explain the

diagram to other people).

Cultural stream of

analysis

Analysis I - analysis of intervention -

Client/consultant relationship

• Who is in the role of client?

• Who is the 'would be problem

solver'?

• Who is the 'problem owner'?

Analysis II- social system analysis

• Roles, Norms, Values

Analysis III - Political system analysis

• How is 'power' expressed around

here? What are the commodities

through which power is

expressed?

Wrap up

Major findings

• Paul Nunesdea is the English author name of Paulo Manuel Coimbra Nunes de Abreu an organizational psychologist, MSc in Information Management and PhD in Management Science.

• Paul has conducted research work and external consultancy in a varied number of organizations including National and Regional Governments.

• In 2003 he started the "Forum Hospital do Futuro" a not for profit initiative that convened a national Think Thank in Portugal

• In 2009 he founded the Iberian Healthcare Leaders Forum that has convened several Thought Leaders summits in Spain and Portugal.

About the author

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