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Card Technique

The Card-Technique is a system for collecting ideas when a group of people are working together.

All people in the group write down ideas which came into their minds, one idea on one card. In the Brainstorming process it is important that ideas are not judged. Then all cards are collected and fixed on a pin board affixed with a sheet of brown paper. Only now the ideas are processed. The cards are organized according categories and may show new results of which the single persons were not aware.

Apart from the simple visual technique as exampled, the method covers the performance of discussion butlers, known as moderators (see Moderation), as well as the structure of thinking processes within the context of group work.

The Card-Technique includes the following steps:

  1. Problem/Question: Goal of the Action
  2. Explain Method
  3. Hand out cards and markers
  4. each participant notes his ideas to a card each (ca. 10 min.)
  5. each card is pinned to the board (helps to create further ideas)
  6. cards are clustered in the group (common understanding of the ideas)





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