A response to the increasing complexity and risk of designing and planning social systems, especially inter-organizational collaborations, is to ground methodologies on well-researched principles and empirically verify the efficacy of their application. Recent examples from our arena of practice include engaging representatives of fifty organizations in planning a twenty year global Disease Elimination program, international philanthropy-government-venture capital sponsored industrial-academic consortia in Northern Ireland, external stakeholder-driven modernization of regulatory policy, Federal and State interagency coordination for resource stewardship, and statewide engagement of stakeholders in special education.
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Christakis, A.N., Dye, K. (2008). The Cogniscope™ Lessons Learned in the Arena . In: Jenlink, P.M., Banathy, B.H. (eds) Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75843-5_13
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