David

I came across Debategraph quite by accident and wass immediately impressed by its potential to explore and inform.

About 12 years ago I was Head of Audit in a large business that was changing very quickly and was trying to address the challenges of understanding what was actually happening in the business units and the consequent impact on the risk profile. A favoured idea looked very similar to Debategraph but, as we only had Powerpoint / Visio, stalled very quickly as it was too much effort to update and maintain. As a a result we used a Lotus Notes database which was good for getting the data on peoples desktops but less useful in identifying themes / links.

Given the current focus on risk in the financial crisis and whether anyone “saw it coming?” have you considered developing a risk based stream which could be useful to Government, media and businesses?

It could be applied to any risk area and I think it could fit neatly with your 3 parts e.g.
a) breaking down the area into meaningful parts;
b) identifying the risks associated with those parts
c) identifying the relationships between parts and between risks; and,
d) presenting the parts, the risks and their relationships visually.

Regards,

Tony