Tools for problem indentification and analysis:Collaborative working and the problem tree

Remember yesterday?

• The value of integrated approaches

• The challenges of integrated approaches

• The key role of collaboration in the process

• The need to indentify the real causes of problems

• Design integrated solutions and prioritize

Agenda for this morning

• How to work collaboratively? What are key issues? How can one improve?

• Tools for problem identification• What are some available tools?• Problem tree analysis• Solution tree and prioritization

• Exercises in groups and feedback

How to work collaboratively?

• Miles, E. and Trott, W. (2011), Collaborative Working: A series of personal perspectives on government effectiveness. Institute for Government, London. (Executive summary; chapter 2; box 9)

• Critical success factors for collaborative working within and outside the public sector

• Grassroots view

• Factors proved relevant across different contexts and projects

• Queries and check lists

Successful collaboration: a package deal

Promote collaborative

front line working

Explain what´s

important

Appreciate service user´s perspective

Create common purpose

Resource new ways of

working

Hold partners to

account

Build political backing

Insist on whole system

approaches

Spend time on

relationships

Serve others´perspectives

Distributed leadership

Share power

Sharing power: the hardest challenge

• “ Not knowing” and “letting go” in tandem with whole system approach

Appreciate service user´s perspective

Distributed leadership

Serve others´perspectives

Spend time on relationships

Share power

Challenges

• Power struggles• Competition• Lack of time• Changes in leadership• Impatience• Culture don't change in one day, but it is worth the try

Further readingsOn the integrative approach

• European Union (2013), Urban Development in the EU: 50 Projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund during the 2007-13 period. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

• Pieterse, E. (2004), Untangling ‘integration’ in urban development policy debates, Urban Forum, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-35.

• Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J. (2006), Local and Regional Development (Part I and part IV). Abingdon: Routledge.

On methods and tools• Victorian Local Sustainability Accord and National Centre for Sustainability at

Swinburne University of Technology, Community Sustainability Engagement – Evaluation Toolbox.

• Kimbell, L., and Julier, J. (2012), The Social Design Methods Menu, Fieldstudio Ltd, London.