Two teams are working on the same problem — and neither one knows about the other.
Recognize this situation? Below are the Liberating Structures that change it — a concrete example, and the reason this one fits here. New to Liberating Structures? Here's what it is.
25/10 Crowdsourcing reveals in minutes who else is working on the same thing.
For example: Team A has been working on a new onboarding process for three months. It turns out Team B, two floors down, has been working on the exact same problem for six months — neither knew the other existed.
Liberating Structures for this situation:
Social Network Webbing
Social Network Webbing makes visible what the org chart doesn't show: participants map out together who plays what role, and expand that network step by step from their core circle out to the periphery — people who are involved but don't formally show up anywhere.
On that shared network, it becomes visible which two teams actually touch on the same topic, even if they never sit next to each other in the official structure.
25/10 Crowdsourcing
25/10 Crowdsourcing surfaces this kind of overlap incredibly fast: everyone writes their most important current idea on a card, and those cards get passed around the whole group for a few minutes and scored.
Counting down the top scores makes it obvious who else is working on a similar idea — not through a separate search, but simply because it stands out while the cards are being passed around.
No certification, no lengthy prep — read the steps and try it at your next meeting.
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