The Materiality Mirror

Testing whether a priority looks as important from the other side of the table.

The model

Compare management's assessment of an issue with the experience of people affected by it. Differences become subjects for investigation rather than averaged scores that conceal disagreement. The mirror is especially useful when a small inconvenience repeats across many colleagues.

The working model
  1. 01Management view
  2. 02User experience
  3. 03Difference
  4. 04Response

In practice

A change appears minor in the program plan but adds a daily manual step for a large team. The review makes frequency and cumulative effort visible. The original classification is reconsidered without requiring the affected team to call the issue transformational.

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