Nominal Group Technique NGT

When NGT is applied, a facilitator/coordinator presents the issue in question to the participants (nominal group) for the generation of ideas, solutions, etc., as the case may be. Initially, the participants list their opinions without interacting with each other. Their opinions are pooled together and displayed by canceling out the repetitions. Finally, the most important points are selected after voting. 

The process of identifying elements for the Indian Railway Security System underwent two workshop sessions of 4 hours each, in which 15 domain experts participated. A working paper prepared by the research group was presented to the participants at the beginning of the workshop. Based on the content analysis of relevant literature, policy elements concerned with National Security (NS), Security in Transport and Aviation System (NTAS) and Security in Railway System (NRS) were listed. These elements were coded and key-worded. A nominal group of 

An additional round of discussion was held and the initial list of 131 elements was reduced to 56 on the basis of weighted average for each element. The paper titled Systems Approach to Security Management in Indian Railways written by the authors of this chapter may be referred for the complete hst of 56 elements [SRI 09, SWA 09, BAN 09]. 

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