Revisiting the Delphi technique - Research thinking and practice: A discussion paper

The Delphi technique is a research methodology which has traditionally been used to gain consensus among experts on complex issues characterised by uncertainty. Pioneered by the Rand Corporation in the 1950s for military applications, it has since been widely adopted across various fields, including nursing, health and social sciences and information systems on an array of multifaceted real-world issues. However, since its inception, the Delphi technique has undergone substantial methodological development and its use has now gone beyond its initial rationale. In the last two decades there has been a growing body of work illustrating an increasing methodological diversity of the method. While such diversity…