Deliverable products

For example, a model building workshop might produce the following deliverable products: Concept maps of key stakeholders or of the group. Causal maps or influence diagrams of systemic feedback structure. An operating system dynamics model. A list of policy-oriented action steps for the group to carry forward. An organisational strategy for immediate implementation. Andersen and Richardson (1997: 110) suggest that the most likely outcome at the end of a two-day group model-building workshop is a set of model-based insights and action steps. To build a detailed organisational strategy ready for implementation is likely to require several modelling workshops, perhaps supported through intermediate stages by knowledge-elicitation activities, employing questionnaires or workbooks (Vennix, 1996: 128). Also see Iterative and Interactive Strategy Development (McLucas, 2003: 125-184).