Grounded Systems Ltd was founded by Mike Yearworth in 2008. Mike has a background in engineering and management and is Emeritus Professor of Management Science at the University of Exeter.

Mike works with organisations on the following:

• Leading problem structuring workshops with teams for the purposes of planning, transforming and strategy-making
• Problem structuring through stakeholder workshops supported by online group support systems
• Enabling multi-organisational collaboration

Mike’s preferred way of facilitating workshops with teams is to work online in one-to-one and group sessions supported by Strategyfinder, as developed by Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann. He uses a variety of Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs) including:

• Hierarchical Process Modelling (HPM), based on modelling purpose with a how/why dialectic, process performance scoring, and argumentation
• Causal Loop Diagramming and Causal Mapping
• Implementing multimethodologies
• Augmented Qualitative Analysis (AQA) of large document repositories using probabilistic topic models for preliminary Causal Mapping