One of the issues we've got to think about as we build the Enfusion Network - is how to help consultants and practioners in finding the right tools for the job in creating organisational change. Creating a directory of resources, reports, methodologies and toolkits will be no use unless we can develop ways of picking out the right ones to use in different contexts.

I've been watching David Wilcox's posts on Useful Games for a while now - and I wonder whether his social media game could be easily adapted to help us explore the different youth engagement tools and resource which, we hope, will soon be filling the resource directory.

In strikes me that the description of how to play the game could translate easily to selecting organisation change tools to use in different contexts:

Play of the game

1. Workshop participant split into groups of 4-6

2. Each group is given a one-line scenario: e.g. local service organisation, national campaigning body, regional network. They spend a couple of minutes expanding on this, and the likely communication needs.

3. Groups choose from a pack of tools cards to address scenario - budget of 10 points reflecting cost/effort. Also choose one of the S cards - free Web services, Open source strategy to indicate approach (not sure about this)

4. Groups can add their own cards. If so, they ask the organisers what budget their idea attracts.

5. After choosing/adding cards to address the scenario, the group reflect on issues/queries on the cards chosen. What's going to be the big challenge?

If we create a summary card for each of the organisational change tools, approaches or practises that we each use as consultants and practioners, and then use a game like that above, to explore which method will work best in different contexts - we could help build up a rich layer of experience in our resources database helping future practioners get a strong sense of which resources might work best in each context...

Hmmm....