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• Applying the Methodology
• Haroon Saad
• Director QeC-ERAN
• Second Peer Review Workshop, Prague 1-3 October
  2008

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• Aims and Objectives
• Explain clearly what Imagine is and does and how
  it should be used
• Provide you with all the tools necessary to
  undertake an Imagine activity within your own
  context.
• Promote and support the acquisition or
  improvement of generic skills to include
• breakthrough thinking and thinking outside the
  box
• inclusive visioning and innovative thinking
• team working and networking
• stakeholder management analysis
• decision making.

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• Sustainability is the idea of our times
• Indicators are a key way of measuring it for
  any community and any community of practice
• The presentation of indicators is a big problem..
  dense texts that no one can fathom.
• So .. no surprise that no-one seems interested in
  indicators except the people who produce them
• How do I interest people in the indicators?
• Engage stakeholders and experts in a
  participatory and exciting process? Get them to
  develop their own?
• Turn indicators from being purely monitoring and
  evaluation tools to being shapers of policy and
  strategic change?

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• Simply we need to Know.
• What is the problem?
• How did we get there?
• What might be ? What do we need to do?

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• TASK FOR FIRST SMALL GROUP SESSION
• Produce a Rich Picture of What is.
• Include all relevant Structures and Processes
• This enables you to capture your context in a
  cartoon like diagram
• Important elements of the context you are
  interested in
• Things that you need to take into account in
  planning any possible future

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• TASK FOR FIRST SMALL GROUP SESSION
• From the Rich picture draw out
• Some major tasks that need to be addressed
• and\or
• Some major issues which need to be taken into
  account
• Emergent properties

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• Stage two

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• TASK FOR SECOND GROUP SESSION
• In your groups
• Consider the tasks and issues
• Consider three indictors which relate to each of
  the tasks and issues (24 in all)
• THEN

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• Prioritize the indicators as follows
• Easier
• To
• Gather
• Less
• Easy to
• Gather
• Less
  important More important

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• TASK FOR SMALL GROUP SESSION THREE
• Identify and discuss the Indicators that are most
  critical
• Select the top 10
• What were the indicators five years ago?
• Ten years ago?
• What are the trends?

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• SCENARIOS Projecting for trends
• Peter Scwartz said
• A tool for ordering ones perceptions about
  alternative future environments in which ones
  decisions might be played out (or) a set of
  organised ways to dream effectively about our
  own future. A tool for ordering ones
  perceptions about alternative future environments
  in which ones decisions might be played out (or)
  a set of organised ways to dream effectively
  about our own future.

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• Magnus Ramage said
• Scenarios are not just wild guesses or science
  fiction stories.
• However vital imagination is to the process,
  there are some rules that need to be followed if
  scenarios are to help in strategic planning

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• A Scenario is made up of
• An initial view of the system rich pictures
• Then .. a choice How is the system likely to
  evolve? Chose what you think is probable and what
  is relevant
• You need to show a pathway, a link between
  present and future
• The scenario is a description of a possible
  situation

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• TASKS FOR SMALL GROUP SESSION FOUR AND FIVE
• Decide on the future theme of your scenario
• Pessimisticoptimistic etc
• Draw this as a rich picture-with as scenario for
  the next five years.
• What are the ten main activities that need to
  take place to make the scenario come true?
• Or
• What are the ten main activities that need to
  take place to make sure that the scenario does
  not come true?
• Place them on a time line
• Who needs to do what, when?

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