1: Strategic Planning Tools
Provide tools to allow stakeholders within a community to work together in a collaborative, transparent, and strategic manner Other Information:
In conventional thinking, strategy is a top-down tool. But an open, inclusive community simply cannot be run this way because
for many participants the sovereignty or independence of stakeholders is of primary importance. Organisations and individuals
in a communtiy do not accept being told what to do, and by the same token communities do not want to be endlessly consulting
and collaborating; discussions that often seem to go nowhere fast. Instead, what many communities are now finding they need
are new concepts and tools, and a new paradigm that embraces and encourages consultation and collaboration while building
practical strategies, which can be formalised, documented and acted upon as they evolve. We call this process 'liberating
collective wisdom', and it's the basis of a new paradigm - and a new tool to implement it - called OpenStrategy. OpenStrategy
is a planning system for multi-stakeholder communities. Its design is based on the tenet that, given the right tools, stakeholders
can plan their future options using their collective wisdom and intelligent communications. OpenStrategy is not simply a way
of recording what everyone thinks and then disseminating the results. It is an intellectually rigorous paradigm embodied in
an easy-to-use, unified, formal system. OpenStrategy is not simply a tool for policy-development, nor is it an e-voting system
for citizens. It is used by groups and agencies to develop and implement strategies within diverse, complex communities. OpenStrategy
organises the collective wisdom of a Community of Stakeholders, and facilitates the evolution of new wisdom, new interconnections
and new strategies. Although OpenStrategy does not itself make decisions, it provides stakeholders with the information they
need to make better-informed decisions. The OpenStrategy tool itself is comprised of a simple information structure, and a
prioritisation system which are embodied in a web-based tool. This tool is supported by a facilitator, and all types of communications
that occur between stakeholder groups: emails, phonecalls, meetings, and workshops. It doesn't replace conventional communication
methods, it simply acts as a tool to help distill the key wisdom from such communications.
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