After each participant has chosen, the whole group list of problems will be sent to everyone in the group, and people will then be asked to choose a specific problem from the list, according to each one’s notion of relative importance.

From the choices made, a problem will be selected in each group and participants will be asked to indicate which actions must be performed in order to solve the problem, again from each character’s point of view. From the lists received a final list shall be sent to every participant in the group and each one will be asked to choose a task to be responsible for, during the conference.

Each group will have a big storyboard in the conference lobby, where the planned tasks will be shown, and it will be everybody’s mission to provide suggestions on how to accomplish each task. At the end of the conference all lists will be consolidated and, if interesting as a means to understand problem solving in organizations, published in a specific section of the proceedings.

We hope that the whole procedure of story selection and discussion will contribute to reinforce team spirit and networking, before, during and after the conference.