Open AccessQualitative Delphi Method: A Four Round Process with a Worked Example
Author(s) -
Dia Sekayi,
Arleen Kennedy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2017.2974
Subject(s) - delphi method , delphi , qualitative research , narrative , process (computing) , management science , qualitative property , data collection , computer science , epistemology , psychology , sociology , engineering , artificial intelligence , social science , art , philosophy , literature , machine learning , operating system
The Delphi Method was originally designed to collect data from a panel of experts to aid in decision making in government settings. Delphi has been described as a qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approach. The anonymous collection of narrative group opinion coupled with the tightly structured nature of the process and quantitatively described results renders the approach difficult to situate in a methodological category. The purpose of this article is not to settle the debate. Rather, the aim is twofold: to present a modification of Delphi that is definitively qualitative, and to provide a worked example to demonstrate the proposed method.