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This is a great example of how to work in complex environments. This systemic approach is defined in ‘Validating Strategies', joining-up the public and private organisations. Creating ‘True’ strategies that answer; what do customers (citizens and communities) want to ‘do’.

Very few community benefits can be achieved through a single agency, collaborations are essential. These are often complex and to succeed the complexity needs to be recognised and simple rules adopted.

The OpenStrategies approach recognizes that ‘anyone can design a complicated strategy system but a good designer will develop a simple one’. The resulting OpenStrategies’ system is compellingly simple yet powerful, even for very complex, large scale strategies. Crucially, OpenStrategies doesn’t just underpin the design of strategies – it also guides their validation and implementation.

OpenStrategies gives you a validated strategy with a rationale AND an Action Plan.

The founding challenge “If it is possible to use open source paradigms and processes to write software, then is it possible to use open source paradigms and processes to develop strategies?”. Validating Strategies shows that adopting these paradigms will improve wealth creating for the 21st century organisations and their communities.

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The OpenStrategies approach can be explored at the Validating Strategies website https://openstrategies.com/ and through the book: Validating Strategies - Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits, published by Gower https://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781472427816, this web page allows you to read the Preface and Introduction.

A) Why most public sector strategies aren't actually strategies at all - Guardian 8 April 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2014/apr/08/public-sec...