Designing Your Approach

Following the assessment, you should possess a wealth of information from at least three major sources: stakeholder, primary contact, and fact-finding conversations; secondary research; and, primary research. This chapter discusses how to take everything you learned from the assessment and other sources and incorporate it into your design. It provides archetypes for public sector and private sector initiatives, describes the impact of each, and steps through the major decisions you will need to make as you finalize your design. It also covers what to include in your basic design artifacts to ensure each stage is well understood and effectively executed, and that participants, stakeholders, and the governance bodies are aligned.