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Finish - Synthesis to Challenge Defining Outline
Synthesize data
Conduct individual synthesis
- Synthesis must be external. Use Mural, a whiteboard, paper, etc.
- Write what stands out
- What seems like the biggest challenge?
- What are some other top challenges people experience?
- Identify under 10 challenge categories that stand out and show how they are related
Conduct Group Synthesis Meeting
- The Ops Manager schedules this meeting in the research strategy meeting.
- The purpose of this meeting is to discuss, in detail, the initial insights that emerged from individual analysis.
- The research Lead Strategist conducts the meeting, asking questions and prompting discussion to prompt full externalization and critical consideration of top challenges in the stakeholders experience and how the challenges relate.
Create Challenge Defining Outline
- Open Challenge Defining Outline Template
- Open notes from the synthesis meeting and any other document/resources that would inform the outline
- The outline should organize the top 5-9 challenges that people are experiencing with organized sub-themes nested under.
- The outline should begin to follow a narrative.
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