Achieving

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Achieving Positive, Large, Complex,
Cross-Cutting, And Sustainable Change
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Create Sustain A Thriving Community, Region,
Nation, World
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viaFuture - Vision Of A Thriving World
Vision - A thriving world. Mission - Create and
sustain a thriving world. Strategy - All
generations join together to save a broken world
and an endangered future. Path - viaFutures
vision, mission, strategy (incl. systems, policy,
program, management, operations) to increase
thriving and reduce vulnerability using the via
strategic and operational models and tools.
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Strategy
via is a strategy that combines strong
leadership and multi-generational involvement
with next generation policy, program, information
and management to achieve sustainable systems
that help save a broken world and an endangered
future and create and sustain a thriving world.
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via Strategy Models Potential Uses
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Overall via Strategy Model

• Design strategy to achieve desired status of
  target issue area, cross-cutting issue, or
  whole.
• Use Systems Model (incl. Ideal Systems) to
  identify desired future system.
• Use Status Model to identify desired status.
• Use Performance Improvement Model to identify
  changes needed to progress from current status to
  desired status for targeted system
• Use via Model to identify potential
  interventions.
• Use Person Model to identify what individual
  people should do to help.
• Use Population Model to identify what populations
  of people should do to help.
• Use BEM to identify desired people behaviors and
  to develop supportive strategies to achieve those
  behaviors.
• Use Strategy and Supportive Strategies Model to
  identify and assess supportive strategies (sets
  of interventions.

Develop overall, self-perpetuating strategy for
creating and sustaining desired positive, large
scale change across the target system.

• Assess current and projected state of target
  issue area, cross-cutting issue, or whole.
• Use Systems Model (incl. Ideal Systems) to
  understand targeted system.
• Use Status Model to identify current status.
• Use via Model to analyze the positive/negative
  actions currently impacting or projected to
  impact.
• Use Person Model to identify what individual
  people are likely to do.
• Use Population Model to identify what populations
  are likely to do.
• Use Behavioral Effectiveness Model (BEM) to
  assess projected people behaviors.

Apply evaluation methodology for assessing
interventions and strategies impact on near and
long term status and for implications for future
interventions and strategies.
Execute overall strategy and supportive
strategies successfully.
Adjust and execute overall strategy and
supportive strategies to meet changing inputs and
environment.
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Overall via Strategy Model
Perfor-mance Improve-ment Model
Behavioral Effective- ness Model (BEM)
Evalua-tion Metho-dology
Adjust Execute Strategy
Status Model
Person Model
Overall via Strategy
System Model
via Model positive/ negative actions
via Model potential inter-ventions
Popu-lation Model
Strategy Supportive Strategies Model
Execute Overall Strategy
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Ideal Systems Model
Theoretical Ideal System No cost no constraints
Ultimate Ideal System No constraints means not
available
Feasible Ideal System Constraints
removed/reduced means available
Recommended System Best given constraints
available means On glide path to Ultimate
Ideal
via Model
Present System
Gary Christopherson, 2009 Adapted from Work
Design A Systems Concept, Gerald Nadler, 1970
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Ideal Systems Model Create/Sustain Thriving
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Theoretical Ideal System No cost no constraints
Ultimate Ideal System No constraints means
not available
Feasible Ideal System Constraints removed/
reduced means available
via Model
Recommended System Best given constraints
available means On glide path to Ultimate
Ideal
Present System
Gary Christopherson, 2009 Adapted from Work
Design A Systems Concept, Gerald Nadler, 1970
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Strategic Performance Improvement Model
Performance Improvement
Optimized Outcomes
Current People Behavior
Changes in World Behavior
Target People Behavior
Changes in Inputs/Environment
Changes in Peoples Behavior
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via Model and Supporting Models
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via Model
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• The via model plays two roles. First, it is
  the underlying tool to design the overall
  strategy. Second, it is the operational tool to
  carry out strategy and achieve vision.
• The models driving principle is to move from
  highly vulnerable to highly thriving by
  preventing further vulnerability, reducing
  vulnerability and increasing thriving.
• The model is used to inform, guide, and assess
  actions
• Stopping actions that increase vulnerability.
• Supporting actions that reduce vulnerability.
• Supporting actions that increase thriving.

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via Model Create and Sustain Positive Change
Do interventions that achieve highest thriving
highly thriving
Support actions that increase thriving
Do interventions that prevent more vulnerability
Support actions that reduce vulnerability
Status indicators (Status)
highly vulnerable
Do interventions that move up from vulnerability
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Vulnerable, Interactive and Dynamic World
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• Reducing vulnerability requires understanding
  interaction across and within people,
  plants/animals, and earth. It requires
  understanding interaction across time and place.
• This is dynamic. Change is ongoing as actions
  impact both within and across any element or
  aspect.
• Making the right changes requires continually
  taking the right actions with the right element
  at the right time in the right place. It
  requires coordinating those actions.
• Going back to the via model, that means
• Stopping actions that increase vulnerability.
• Supporting actions that reduce vulnerability.
• Supporting actions that increase thriving.

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System(s) Model systems impacting
vulnerability

• Living Systems
• Part of other systems and have subsystems
• Complex
• Overlap
• Interact
• Permeable boundaries (open systems)
• Infinite and finite in numbers
• Artificial constructs
• Possess chaos and order (real perceived)
• Real only to limited extent

High Vulnerability Low Thriving
Move
Low Vulnerability High Thriving

• Behavioral Effectiveness Model (BEM)
• Applies to person and/or population within/across
  systems
• Helps predict and understand human behavior
  within/across systems
• Helps address determinants of behavior
  within/across systems
• Helps with systems-oriented program design and
  evaluation for reducing vulnerability and
  increasing thriving

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Vulnerable, Interactive and Dynamic World
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World
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Behavioral Effectiveness Model (BEM)
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Re-evaluation for Future Behavior
Valance for Consequences
Intrinsic Consequences
Motivation (or Effort)
Perceived Effort to Consequences Relationship (E
(III))
E (I)
Satisfaction
Desired Behavior
E (II)
Extrinsic Consequences
Ability
Environmental Variables (controllable
uncontrollable perceived real)
E (I) Perceived motivation (effort) to behavior
relationship E (II) Perceived behavior to
intrinsic and extrinsic consequences
relationship E (III) Perceived effort to
consequences relationship
Based on Behavioral Effectiveness Model (BEM),
Gary Christopherson, 1974 2004
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Person Model Applying BEM Over Individual
Persons Time Life Stages
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J. Smith Died
J. Smith Conceived
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult Senior Adult
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BEM
M. Jones Died
M. Jones Conceived
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult Senior Adult
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BEM
T0 T1 T2 T3 T..

Time
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Population Model Applying BEM At a Point in
Time Across Persons Their Life Stages
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.. Early Adult Middle Adult Senior Adult
J. Smith Died
. .. Adolescent Early Adult Middle Adult
Senior Adult
.... Birth Child Adolescent Early
Adult Middle Adult ..
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult Senior Adult
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult Senior Adult
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult ..
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult Middle Adult ..
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult ..
Pre-birth Birth Child Adolescent
Early Adult ..
M. Jones Conceived
BEM
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T-.. .. T-3 T-2 T-1 Tx
T1 T2 T3 T..
Time
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What To Achieve? How Are We Doing?
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• To measure progress (or lack thereof), we ask
  What do we want to achieve? How are we doing?
  
• Status indicators (Status) provide the answers.
• They range from highly vulnerable to highly
  thriving.
• They can cover three key elements
• People
• Plants and Animals
• Earth itself
• Each element has indicators, e.g. education,
  protected, sustained, climate. Each indicator
  has detailed measures.
• Assessing Status indicates how far we have to go.

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What Do We Want To Achieve? How Are We Doing?
Negative Gap in wStatus? Reduce Vulnerability
Current wStatus assess indicators move up from
Target wStatus set indicators move toward

• Vulnerability Indicators
• People
• Poorly performing
• Poor (financially)
• Poorly nourished
• Poorly housed
• Poorly protected (exposures, crime)
• Poorly educated
• Physically/mentally ill
• Poorly growing/developing
• Not sustaining
• Plants/Animals
• Poorly performing
• Poorly nourished
• Bad habitat
• Poorly-protected
• Physically ill
• Poorly growing/developing
• Not sustaining

• Thriving Indicators
• People
• Well performing
• Well-off (financially)
• Well nourished
• Well housed
• Well protected (exposures, crime)
• Well educated
• Well physically/mentally
• Growing/developing well
• Sustaining
• Plants/Animals
• Well performing
• Well nourished
• Good habitat
• Well-protected
• Well physically
• Growing/developing well
• Sustaining

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Strategies and Supportive Sub-Strategies
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• To achieve our vision, a series of supportive
  sub-strategies are laid out that help us achieve
  
• a supportive environment,
• high person performance, and
• high performance with respect to coordination/
  management and the needed strategies, models,
  resource use and progress indicators.
• This leads to better achievement of the needed
  people behavior which leads to better outcomes
  for people, plants/animals and earth.
• The extent to which this is successful is the
  extent to which there is low vulnerability and
  high thriving.

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Strategy Model - Improve Status
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Strategies and Supportive Strategies to Improve
Status
Develop strong people commitment
Target People Behavior
Optimized Outcomes
Develop supportive environment
High Status
Develop strong person-centered w/ high personal
choice self care strong partnership between
person others
The lowest status persons maximize their own
potential and are provided all needed support
The higher status persons maximize their own
potential to thrive and are provided support
Assure all people at least survival status
Develop strong private/public sector
policy/program collaboration/coordination/managem
ent
Effectively use vulnerability/thriving,
person-centered, world-centered, systems,
strategy, behavioral, performance improvement
models
Effectively develop/execute strategies that are
self adjusting self perpetuating
Identify agree upon status indicators
Effectively use public private sector resources
Ensure strong performance/quality (w/ aligned
high performance measures) for private/public
sectors across world
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Together, We Can Create and Sustain Large,
Positive Change
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Together, We Can Create and Sustain Thriving
Communities, Regions, Nations World