Preliminary Exploration: Planning for Analysis phase

In the Analysis planning, I focus on three major aspects, literature research, previous projects study, and global trends, and they are also primary objectives in this phase. There are secondary objectives, such as reporting progress on blog regularly.

Primary objectives:
1. Literature research: There will be four fields to study in the literature research.
- Visual thinking/ Graphic facilitation
The literature in this field will refer to previous studies on aspects about the graphic facilitation. The aspects will range from "creative facilitation in group problem-solving" to "story-telling drawing techniques".

- Shared understanding
The literature in this field will refer to previous studies about how shared understanding is being build up during a group meeting or a period of time while meditating in multidisciplinary team. The aspects of the field are "relationships between team mental models and performance", and "how a diverse group get shared understanding".

- Review of facilitation results
This literature in this field will focus on assessment on outcomes of group facilitation. The aspects will be on methodologies and results of empirical studies.

- Contextmapping
The literature here will be a preliminary study for the research methods in the following "Contextmapping phase".

2. Previous projects study: Preliminary research in JAM's works and people.
- What are JAM
- Who are JAM
- Previous project categorization
- JAM's tool, environment, and stimuli

3. Global trends study: Look into some companies, conference, personal blogs, websites, and news about trends in visual thinking/ graphic facilitation.

Secondary objectives:
Reporting progress on the blog regularly.