Brown Papers

Brown Papers are another study undertaken by the consultants.

Brown Papers during the analysis phase are different ones from the ones during a project. The ones from an analysis are not that detailed (unless it is done by a very inexperienced consultant who wants to kill himself by overdetailing it when time is precious).

The name comes from the brown packing and wrapping paper which is used as "wallpaper" to depict the main processes and stick all the paperwork on it which is being used in that process.

The client's people from all sorts of departments are commenting in special brown paper sessions and stick critique notes on it. The consultants also critique it. Another study is done where the weaknesses of a company are shown and potential for improvement is being made visible.

(For an example, a training brown paper (during a project though) can be seen in an older entry, around mid-February sometime). This photo on this entry is not from an analysis, but my first project. It shows what I am talking about.