Snowball Technique

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Involves concentrating groups of ideas pertaining to the same problem and assigning them a theme, i.e.

• One slip of paper (or ‘post-its’) is used per idea generated or possible solution offered
• A meeting is set up of up to 5 people. The slips of paper are viewed and then grouped ‘like with like’.
• Duplicates can be created if the idea/solution is relevant to more than one group
• Patterns and relationships in the groups are observed