• Who will be affected by this work? • How should we communicate to the rest of the world? Harvest • People and commitment • Contact lists, invitation lists, and a set of differing levels of engagement • Communications and engagement strategies tailored for each ring of people. IMPLEMENTING Participatory processes and chaordic work is all about getting better results. As we produce good results, we need to be conscious about the form and shape of the outputs of a process and how to support them. In chaordic processes we cannot know the result before hand, but we can plan for the outputs and the architecture we need to put in place to support our results. Doing this before we choose the structure and processes for our initiative helps ensure that our strategic work has a life past the events we are planning. Outputs Whether you are planning a single meeting or an ongoing strategic initiative, it is crucial that you focus on the outputs: the concrete results of your work. While we can’t know the content of emergent processes we can plan for the kinds of outputs we expect. Depending on what you are doing you need to know if your work will result in reports, decisions, ideas, further conversations, new structures or ways of doing things. You need to make choices about how to represent these outputs in a way that is usable and appropriate for the group you are working with. This is the realm of results and measurement, things, decisions and processes that are created in the container of strategic work and that are to live beyond the scope of the work. Outputs must be realistic and gauged against the need and the people and resources available. • What are we trying to make together? • How will we be able to measure or understand the effect of our work? • How will we make our work visible and usable? • What are we hoping the tangible and intangible results of our work will be? • What results will prove the worthiness of our work? Harvest • Physical artifacts that effectively share the results of the work. • Plans for implementing and evaluating the impact and results of the work. Architecture of Implementation 6 26
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