Complexity Training for Community Stewardship

This artifact shares a PowerPoint presentation and the related paper partially shared in the DEL 810: Complexity.

What is interesting in this artifact is that it represents a combination of a DEL course presentation that is designed to train that course in a simplified way to communities dealing with issues of difficulty. The presentation provides real cases and how they were addressed through the filter of complexity. Stewardship, or the care and betterment of what one is entrusted with, is woven throughout the presentation. The paper and presentation are designed to be shared with any organization concerned about doing their best with the difficult, and sometimes complex, projects they are tasked with completing.

The presentation includes:

1. Questions to use to determine if a Complexity Model should be used.

2. Systemic, path-dependency, customized interventions, and seizing tipping points are core components for interventions.

3. Locally informed interventions, participative approach, unique work, connected goals-intentions-visions, intended outcomes, subjective and qualitative approach, shared learning, look for the intended are nine items to fold into an intervention

4. A review of Access Management Regulations, Lot Split process, Separation of the regulations

5. The creation of a Complexity Component Scoring Metric for Requests for Proposals and Qualifications (RFQs, RFPs)

6. Future applications became "Collaborative Murmurations," and "Ohio's Buckeye Lake 2030 planning efforts."

DEL Program Outcomes

1. Sense and Shape Opportunities.

The creativity of working through complex development issues in the county was improved by this work. Future projects were filtered with an understanding of how interrelated change is in the dynamic transformation of the county.

2. Timely Judgments and seize opportunities.

The paper came into immediate use in how the discussion of planning continued in the office. No longer was the conversation what the planners will do for the community. In recognizing the growth pressures and myriad of options for development, this paper and PPT demonstrates a change in thinking that positively helped the county and organization I oversaw in Ohio.

5. Assess existing research into one's discipline, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary context.

The Complexity Component Scoring Metric and sharing key components for establishing proper interventions came by transforming the ideas of complexity into practice for a variety of projects (public, consulting, private).