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Informedness

The extent to which those making decisions understand the information critical to making that decision.

To what extent:

  1. Do participants gain critical context about tradeoffs and consequences of different decisions?
  2. Is this sourced from:
    1. Experts?
    2. The existing authorities, who may have extensive context?
    3. A broad diversity of constituents?
    4. The most impacted stakeholders?
    5. The powerful stakeholders, whose incentives are critical to having the decision “stick”?

Related Capabilities

Curate context

Ability to provide complete context to participants, including things like background information, subject matter fundamentals, relevant considerations, tradeoffs, and possible options.
Maturity
Opportunity
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Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Activate learning

Urgent
Ability for diverse participants to efficiently and effectively learn relevant information, such that they can actively apply their learnings in the process.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Enumerate scenarios

Ability to generate lists of likely scenarios, including edge cases, in which decisions will be applied, to help participants better understand the issue space.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Forecast impacts

Urgent
Ability to effectively and easily model complex systems, to help participants understand the potential impacts of different decisions.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Routing and synthesizing

Ability to route and synthesize data, revealing critical information, e.g. identifying common ground, high-potential ideas, thoughtful perspectives, insightful experiences, cruxes, forecasts, while helping to minimize the time required to do tasks.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Integrate wider-public

Ability to provide those not in the room deliberating with opportunities to constructively and fairly contribute input into the process.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness

Evaluate claims

Ability for participants to evaluate claims made during the process by any actor or source.
Maturity
Opportunity
Importance
Neglectedness
Dimension: Informedness