This document discusses tools for collaborative problem identification and analysis, specifically problem tree analysis. It provides an agenda for a workshop on working collaboratively, identifying problems, and prioritizing solutions. The document discusses the challenges of collaboration including power struggles and lack of time but emphasizes that collaborative working is worth pursuing. It recommends resources on integrated approaches and methods for problem identification and prioritization.

1. Tools for problem indentification and analysis:
Collaborative working and the problem tree

2. Remember yesterday?
• The value of integrated approaches
• The challenges of integrated approaches
• The key role of collaboration in the process
• The need to indentify the real causes of problems
• Design integrated solutions and prioritize

3. Agenda for this morning
• How to work collaboratively? What are key issues? How
can one improve?
• Tools for problem identification
• What are some available tools?
• Problem tree analysis
• Solution tree and prioritization
• Exercises in groups and feedback

4. How to work collaboratively?
• Miles, E. and Trott, W. (2011), Collaborative Working: A series of
personal perspectives on government effectiveness. Institute for
Government, London. (Executive summary; chapter 2; box 9)
• Critical success factors for collaborative working within
and outside the public sector
• Grassroots view
• Factors proved relevant across different contexts and
projects
• Queries and check lists

5. Successful collaboration: a package deal
Promote
collaborative
front line
working
Explain
what´s
important
Appreciateservice
user´s perspective
Create
common
purpose
Resource
new ways of
working
Hold
partners to
account
Build
political
backing
Insist on
whole
system
approaches
Spend time
on
relationships
Serve others´
perspectives
Distributed
leadership
Share
power

6. Sharing power: the hardest challenge
• “ Not knowing” and “letting go” in tandem with whole
system approach
Appreciateservice
user´sperspective
Distributed
leadership
Serve others´
perspectives
Spend time on
relationships
Share
power

7. Challenges
• Power struggles
• Competition
• Lack of time
• Changes in leadership
• Impatience
• Culture don't change in one day, but it is worth the try

8. Further readings
On the integrative approach
• European Union (2013), Urban Development in the EU: 50 Projects supported by
the European Regional Development Fund during the 2007-13 period.
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
• Pieterse, E. (2004), Untangling „integration‟ in urban development policy debates,
Urban Forum, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-35.
• Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J. (2006), Local and Regional
Development (Part I and part IV). Abingdon: Routledge.
On methods and tools
• Victorian Local Sustainability Accord and National Centre for Sustainability at
Swinburne University of Technology, Community Sustainability Engagement –
Evaluation Toolbox.
• Kimbell, L., and Julier, J. (2012), The Social Design Methods Menu, Fieldstudio
Ltd, London.