The Network Approach CAMs

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The Network ApproachCAMs

• Dr Robyn Keast
• QUT
• 25 January 2007

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Why the network approach

• Integrate fragmented services sectors
• Reduce duplication overlap
• Solve wicked issues
• Re-engage disconnected citizens communities
• Create innovation
• Tap into partners opportunities

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Networks defined

• Web of connections
• These ongoing connections form stable patterns of
  relationships or networks which are a
  specified set of links among social actors
  (Mitchell, 1969 2).
• Governance form
• Interpersonal relations glue that binds

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Network operating logic

• Operate on the horizontal axis
• Based on interpersonal relationships Trust
• Reciprocity
• Mutuality
• Common vision language
• Interdependent

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Limiting factors

• Tendency to operate business as usual
  ignoring network logic
• Require new management roles skills
• Changed terms of engagement
• Tendency to treat networks as undifferentiated
  broadly ways of working together
• Argue that networks are differentiated
  different models meet different purposes

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Differentiating Networks Through Relationships

Cooperation
Coordination
Collaboration
Network Structures
Networking
Networks
Low trust Infrequent communication Information
known Independent Adjusting actions Time
immediate
Medium trust (past relations) Information
communication project related directed Joint
projects Intermediate time frame
High trust Thick communication Tacit
information Dense/ interdependent
relations Pooled resources Systems change Time
3-5 years
what type of relationship is needed and how do
you achieve it?
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Going forward

• All 3Cs have merit application
• Built fit-for-purpose
• Mix match relational strength to purpose
• Establish linking mechanisms
• Monitor adjust
• Engage in strategic relationship building
• de-activating

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New terms of engagement

• Genuinely inclusive
• Respectful
• Commitment to the network
• Interdependence
• Power sharing letting go of control
• Allowing processes to run their course
• Taking risks
• Allowing time
• Adjusting expectations, systems processes