Paper Info
Title
Understanding the Behavior of Workshop Facilitators in Systems Analysis and Design Projects: Developing Theory from Process Modeling Projects
Abstract
Organizational and technological systems analysis and design practices such as process modeling have received much attention in recent years. However, while knowledge about related artifacts such as models, tools, or grammars has substantially matured, little is known about the actual tasks and interaction activities that are conducted as part of analysis and design acts. In particular, key role of the facilitator has not been researched extensively to date. In this paper, we propose a new conceptual framework that can be used to examine facilitation behaviors in process modeling projects. The framework distinguishes four behavioral styles in facilitation (the driving engineer, the driving artist, the catalyzing engineer, and the catalyzing artist) that a facilitator can adopt. To distinguish between the four styles, we provide a set of ten behavioral anchors that underpin facilitation behaviors. We also report on a preliminary empirical exploration of our framework through interviews with experienced analysts in six modeling cases. Our research provides a conceptual foundation for an emerging theory for describing and explaining different behaviors associated with process modeling facilitation, provides first preliminary empirical results about facilitation in modeling projects, and provides a fertile basis for examining facilitation in other conceptual modeling activities.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Conceptual Modeling,Facilitation,Facilitator,Process Modeling Facilitation,Systems Analysis And Design
Field
DocType
Volume
Rule-based machine translation,Structured systems analysis and design method,Facilitation,Conceptual model,Work in process,Process modeling,Knowledge management,Engineering,Facilitator,Conceptual framework,Management science
Journal
36
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1529-3181
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anders Hjalmarsson1353.69
Jan Recker220325.03
Michael Rosemann32275164.23
Mikael Lind421524.42