The Delphi Method

@article{Gordon2019TheDM,
  title={The Delphi Method},
  author={Theodore Jay Gordon},
  journal={New Teaching Resources for Management in a Globalised World},
  year={2019}
}
  • T. Gordon
  • Published 1 November 2019
  • Business
  • New Teaching Resources for Management in a Globalised World
Featured RAND developed the Delphi method in the 1950s, originally to forecast the impact of technology on warfare. The method entails a group of experts who anonymously reply to questionnaires and subsequently receive feedback in the form of a statistical representation of the "group response," after which the process repeats itself. The goal is to reduce the range of responses and arrive at something closer to expert consensus. The Delphi Method has been widely adopted and is still in use… 
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