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VALIDATING PRODUCTS

Portugal Maria do Carmo Nunes
Warsaw, 4 April 2008
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• why validate products?
• To upgrade products quality benchmarking
• Social recognition of products value
  (prerequisite for mainstreaming)
• Meeting the needs of potential users
• Building a mainstreaming plan

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• key actors of the validation process

• authors
• peers
• experts
• potential users
• decision makers
• beneficiaries (empowerment)

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• the validation process in 3 steps

• Demonstration authors present the evidences of
  the seven quality crieria present in the
  Product
• Debate authors, peers, experts and potential
  users debate in subgroups and award points
• Recommendations each subgroup presents its
  scores and recommendations
• Futher clarification or evidence of
  quality may be given by the author
• (one validation session may take 2 / 3 hours)

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• the seven quality criteria
• Innovation
• Empowerment
• Suitability
• Usefulness
• Accessibility
• Equality
• Transferability

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• Assessing quality criteria
• Innovation
• what makes the product distinctive?
• what is the added value?
• does it promote new forms of learning? new
  skills?
• does it result from different partners
  contribution?

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• Assessing quality criteria
• Transferability
• can the product be used in other contexts? Is it
  flexible enough? Autonomous?
• is it good enough to influence change?
• who recognized its value?
• the costs/benefits of appropriation make it
  worthwhile?

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• Critical success factors
• LEARNING ATTITUDE!
• focus the debate on quality criteria evidences
• authors openness to external critical analysis
• to provide a constructive critical analysis
• not allowing peers alliances to block up critics
• inviting external recognised experts
• participation of potential users (clients point
  of view)

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A LIVING PRODUCT VALIDATION AS A PROCESS
Recognition
Marketing
Experimentation
Transferring
LEARNING
Rebuilding
New work processes services
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• To debate innovation is also to discuss its
  transferability conditions
• Innovation legitimation only occurs when it is
  incorporated in the work processes and services