ODI's online strategy and research: how they work together
ODI Director of Research Andrew Norton interviews Digital Manager Nick Scott about ODI's award-winning digital strategy and how it is being implemented with ODI researchers.
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The Alignment, Interest and Influence Matrix (AIIM) guidance note
Enrique MendizabalIn 2007, on the eve of a workshop to introduce a new version of the RAPID approach to DFID policy teams, Enrique Mendizabal and Ben Ramalingam created the Alignment, Interest and Influence Matrix (AIIM), a stakeholder analysis tool that not only helps to identify key stakeholders, but also suggests a possible course of action towards them. -
Strategy Development: Outcome Mapping
As development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environments, the focus of Outcome Mapping is on people. The originality of the methodology is its shift away from assessing the development impact of a programme (defined as changes in state: for example, policy relevance, poverty alleviation, or reduced conflict) and toward changes in the behaviours, relationships, actions or activities of the people, groups and organisations with which a development programme works directly.
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Collaboration Mechanisms: Teams, Virtual and Face-to-Face
This tool explores team development described in terms of five stages, beginning with a simple 'membership' group, and working through 'confrontation' to a 'shared-responsibility' group.
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Colloboration Mechanisms: Communities of Practice
This tool examines Communities of Practice or CoPs. Etienne Wenger, author of the seminal book Cultivating Communities defines them as follows: ' … groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting on an ongoing basis'.
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Colloboration Mechanisms: Action Learning Sets
Action learning is a structured mechanism for working in small groups to address complicated issues.
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Colloboration Mechanisms: Six Thinking Hats
This tool enables groups to look at a decision from several points of view and was created by Edward de Bono in his book Six Thinking Hats and is an important and powerful technique.
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Colloboration Mechanisms: Mind Maps
Mind Maps are a powerful graphic technique that can be applied to all aspects of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance performance and effectiveness. It is a non-linear way of organising information and a technique that allows capture of the natural flow of ideas.
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Capturing and Storing Knowledge: Taxonomies for Documents and Storage
With the advent of the internet, there has been increased interest in using taxonomies for structuring information for easier management and retrieval. At their simplest, taxonomies are nothing more than systems for naming and organising things.
