Resource description:
Discussion tool to facilitate constructive discussion within expert groups.
Author/Contact:
TURAS
Expert contact: Eva-Maria Stumpp
Advantages:
- Breaking down complex issues into subthemes can help to uncover certain specific aspects of a challenge and facilitate problem-solving. The Strategy Dashboard helps to structure discussions and to summarise key components into limited but workable blocks
- This tool focuses on social and institutional sustainability.
- Main outcomes: stakeholder integration, process innovation, community empowerment.
Constraints:
- Discussing action plans or developing strategies with stakeholder or expert groups can be difficult. Meetings can sometimes fail to produce meaningful results and are unconstructive. This is partly due to the inability of experts from different fields to
Uses of this resource:
When employing a systemic approach to tackling sustainability challenges, the complexity of the issues at hand can be overwhelming. Moreover, an integrated approach to strategy building requires the involvement of multi-disciplinary experts and stakeholders from very different backgrounds and disciplines. Especially in academia it is common that knowledge is fragmented into very narrow fields of expertise. The "Strategy Dashboard" is a tool to improve the communication across experts groups in the context of sustainability transitions.
Additional information:
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED?
FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES:
strategic planning department; community development department
LOCAL TASK FORCE:
local or regional authority; community group; professional expert; researcher; business
SUITABLE FOR:
urban region; (sub-)urban communities
MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE:
expert knowledge; local knowledge; community trust; public institutional set-up; personnel time
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Development stage:
- Full, working product