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• The ability to absorb extremely complex, theoretical and abstract material from which they seek to create order and structure • Conceptual and creative with a desire to build new models • Analytical, task-focused and decisive • Reserved and sometimes detached from others, preferring to work autonomously • Driven to succeed with high standards for performance, which they apply to themselves most strongly • Desire to understand systems as a whole, including complex interaction among moving parts • Intellectual, theoretical and future-oriented with the ability to see the global "big picture" What does this mean for communicating and collaborating with IT? Visualize to Synchronize Going back to my original project example, my IT colleagues took my lengthy and wordy requirements document and — after many hours of conversation about fields, sources and data — took it apart and put it back together as a detailed dataflow diagram. This diagram not only described the data, it illustrated the relationship between fields and sources in a clear way, even highlighting issues with some requirements that were not visible when looking just at the words in a table. This approach to requirements is consistent with some of the INTJ personality traits. Specifically, INTJs are described as conceptual and creative. It has been suggested that they can benefit from incorporating visuals into their projects along with additional details to support the big-picture concepts. While INTJs like working with theoretical and abstract data, they also need to create order and structure, and using visuals can be very helpful in doing that. As a result, at Stikeman Elliott, we now strive to take an illustrative approach to all of our KM/IT project requirements and have found it to be a very effective way for us to understand fully the requirements and to communicate them to IT. Peer to Peer 25