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Nemacastra (NE) is a ‘research and define solution’ process that incorporates user experience, digital strategy, market research, consensus building, analytics and design, resulting in intelligent decision making and architecting robust solutions for a business, service or process.

Etymology
Nemacastra is coined from Japanese term Nemawashi (根回し) and Latin Castra. Nemawashi, which literally means digging around the roots is the informal process of quietly laying the foundation for some proposed change or project, by talking to the people concerned, gathering support and feedback, and so forth. In classical Latin the word castra means "great legionary encampment", building or plot.

Introduction
Nemacastra (NE) involves a set of interactive or independent activities that enables identification of the required approach, the different players and systems, detriments, opportunities, building blocks and value proposition of an existing or a new project.

Projects often drag through cycles of repetitive discussions, indecisiveness and lack of clarity into vision and approach due to factors, which may include amongst others –
 * Lack of cognitive data
 * Disagreements and differed priorities
 * Too many moving parts
 * Resources crunch

Nemacastra enables building consensus amongst individuals and smaller groups around identifying success criteria’s that form the building blocks. The blocks are stacked by pecking order in the organizational food chain through feasibility and importance exercise. With contribution and involvement of all stakeholders in formulating this plan, next steps are to agree upon what everyone has already agreed during the exercise.

Goals

 * Nemacastra aims to crystallize the thought process and initial steps required before start of a project by solving the following queries:
 * 1) What is it that needs to be solved
 * 2) Who, how and what is affected if not solved
 * 3) How to go about obtaining the most optimal solution
 * 4) Why a particular solution
 * 5) When and at what stages is the solution applied
 * Architect a solution through broad consensus and participation
 * Demonstrate feasible enhancements that justify the effort
 * Prioritize and propose viable appraoch to implementation

Practitioners
Nemacastra process can be adopted by any group in an org to surface intelligent solutions in a fast evolving market space but primary practitioners can be from strategy, product management, ux, design, Marketing.