A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement scores 214 club members' raffle-stub history into a purchase-and-redemption quadrant that the club's own nomination sub-committee has adopted as a pre-screen for standing for election.
A purchase-and-collection quadrant built from raffle stubs now decides who may stand for election at a suburban sports and social club
The School of Continuous Improvement has spent three seasons asking what a raffle ledger already records about a club member, long before nomination night puts the question to a show of hands.
A research poster led by Senior Research Fellow Sten Okwuosa with Lecturer Ingeborg Nwachukwu scores ticket-purchase frequency against prize-collection promptness across three seasons of raffle-stub records at a suburban sports and social club, sorting all 214 members into a four-cell Purchase-and- Redemption Quadrant (PARQ). The plane’s dividing lines were drawn once, from the first season’s median behaviour, and left in place for the two AGM cycles that followed.
A raffle stub was never meant to stand for anything but the raffle. It has ended up standing for the member.
— Senior Research Fellow Sten Okwuosa, Convenor, Impact Pathway Atlas
The University counts the finding among the clearer instances of a habit it keeps rediscovering: a record kept for one purpose finding a second job nobody assigned it.
Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, who studies what a rubric keeps of the role it was written for, said the nomination sub-committee’s adoption of the quadrant “answers a question the study never asked.”
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.y4f3bx.