New How-To Guides on DoView Site – What’s and outcomes (results) model April 15, 2010
Posted by Paul Duignan in : Communicating outcomes models, DoView, Easy Outcomes, Outcomes models, Using the approach , trackbackI have not been blogging for a while as I’ve been caught up in preparing multiple resources on outcomes models and also actually developing many outcomes models for clients. I now have many great examples which I want to share with you in the coming months. It’s only now that a number of these projects are coming to a conclusion and clients are becoming willing to share them with others. So watch this space.
In the meantime, on the DoView site some new How-To Guides are starting to be put up. The first is on What’s a DoView Outcomes (Results) Model and Why Should I Use One? This is in response to requests from DoView enthusiasts who want to be able to refer people to a quick article about what an outcomes model is and why people should use one for all of their project and organizational planning.
What I’ve been progressively realizing with my involvement in the development of DoView outcomes software and the area of outcomes theory is that two things are happening at once. The first is that there’s a new piece of software around which can do some things that people have done in the past but they can now do more efficiently. The major one that DoView does is to help program evaluators draw better logic models in real-time in front of the groups they work with.
But what’s also happening is that DoView is being picked up my many other people, who are not using it for program evaluation at all. In combination with the work which is being done on outcomes theory, DoView is opening up an entirely new way of doing strategic planning within organizations. The most exciting thing is that the new visual approach to strategic planning which DoView is making possible, also allows a whole raft of other types of organizational activity (monitoring, evaluation, outcomes-focused contracting) to be done around the same visual outcomes models being used in DoView visual strategic planning. People are finding that this is an incredibly efficient way to operate.
While all this is very exciting stuff and we’re now involved in a number of really interesting projects pushing this work forward, the challenge of communicating what this new DoView / Outcomes Modeling movement is all about is now more complex. This is because it involves not just talking about how DoView can be used to do something which people are familiar with and is already being done (i.e. program evaluators drawing logic models). It also now involves explaining to a wide variety of people, with a wide variety of backgrounds, an entirely new (visual) way of doing things. Of course, this new way of doing things is all set out in detail on the outcomes theory site (e.g. in the article Results-Based Management Using the Systematic Outcomes Management / Easy Outcomes Process). But the problem is that busy practitioners (e.g. strategic planners for example), really don’t have enough time to get on top of all of this more theoretical material.
So what’s happening now is that a lot of this material is being simplified and integrated more with the use of DoView and put up on the DoView website. This is for those people who see what they’re doing as essentially using DoView for various purposes – rather than doing something like Results-Based Management Using the Systematic Outcomes Management / Easy Outcomes approach (a mouthful at the best of times!).
So the first How-To Guide on the DoView site referred to above, is the first of a number of articles on that site which attempt to explain this new movement promoting the use not only of DoView visual strategic plans, but the exciting integration (via visual outcomes models) of strategic planning with monitoring, evaluation, evidence-based practice and outcomes-focused contracting.
Paul Duignan, PhD. (Follow me on my Outcomes Blog; Twitter; or via my E-Newsletter).
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