Metaplan is an international

management consulting Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultant ...

firm, advising companies on how to manage the process of strategy development. Metaplan is well known for developing the ''Metaplan technique''. This discursive approach is a method for collecting and processing ideas and opinions when a group of people are working together. It is frequently used in clinical practices, research, and business contexts. The technique is taught in Metaplan's Leadership & Organization Academy. For the Metaplan technique, all people in the group write down their own ideas or opinions on a topic, one idea on one card. In the

Brainstorming Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. In other words, brainstorming is a situation where a group ...

process it is important that ideas are not judged. Then all cards are collected and fixed on a pin board. Only now the ideas are processed. The cards are organized according to categories and ranked. The clusters of ideas may yield insights or reveal connections people were not aware of. Apart from the visual technique described above, the method often involves the performance of professional discussion butlers, known as moderators. Using the technique, the moderator structures the thinking processes within the context of group work. The method was initiated by

Eberhard Schnelle Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. People First name *Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire *Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian *Eberhard I, Du ...

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

. He also founded Metaplan consulting, i.e. the Metaplan Corporation for Planning and Organization (German: ''Metaplan Gesellschaft für Planung und Organisation'').

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