Inform

From tacit to explicit
Think-well’s core commitment is to ensure you are well informed and in a position to make key projects decisions with confidence.  Good project analysis and explanation eliminates opinion or dogma, enables clarity of purpose and provides the means to reform and transform projects.

We identify, research and dissect the project’s Key issues, developing project understanding and makes this knowledge explicit, with explanations that are rational, visual and which identify, rank and evaluate the projects:

	Degrees of freedom
	Independent variables
	Dependent variables, and
	Constraints

Key Issues
Within the body of information on every project there is a set of facts and related subjects that for the crux to delivery and success.  Two apparently similar projects can often have two entirely different sets of Key Issues.

‘Goals’ and ‘Tasks’ are prominent features of projects; Key Issues are distinct, separate and their low profile belies their potential impact.  Often overlooked Keys issues will compromise potential impact.  Often overlooked Keys Issues will compromise the aspirations frequently set out ‘Goals’ and lead to contradiction and contention when a routine set of stock ‘Tasks’ or behaviours are used by project teams and results have a serious impact on project value, a drain on team energy and significant project delays and leading to increased opex. 

The importance of key issues is their role as the interactive layer between a project’s Goals and Tasks.  Once this interface between Goals and Tasks is understood it is possible to develop, bold realistic Goals, and Tasks that result in proficient teamwork

Reform
Think-well use Key issues as the hub on which projects can be reformed in ways that recognise their unique aspects and evolve pragmatic plans that assure delivery.  Key Issues provides the means to:

Inform project Goals
We illustrate the opportunities, uncertainties, barriers and range of possible outcomes, and this provides  our client’s with a means of managing expectations and comprehending the possible routes to the realisations of project Goals.

Our work stimulates bold realism, not exaggerated optimism

Inform project Tasks
We impart clarity of purpose, structure, rational teamwork and sequencing to tasks frequently seen as routine and secluded.  Project teams work as a cohesive unit with a sense of purpose and direction.

Our work stimulates proficient teamwork, not collaborative chaos.

Transform
Think-Well’s critical thinking approach, articulation of key issues and solution sharing techniques provide the means to transform projects where:

	Newly formed teams could overlook or exaggerates the problems and opportunities that a project presents.
	Established projects teams could reproduce a set of stock assumptions, behaviours and tasks on a new project that is apparently similar, but fundamentally different to the team’s experience.
	Long-term project teams develop mind-sets or ‘paradigms’ that are inappropriate or outgrown by change as the project evolves.

Think-Well’s experience, background, products and tool give us a unique set of resources to initiate projects, identify the Key issues and help project teams refresh their project knowledge and practices.  Our project work makes clear the tacit knowledge behind Key Issues and reveals their potency.