Effective Implementation In Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management

Appendix G

Implementation Dynamics and Outcomes Analysis

In this book, we see implementation systems as created by the activities within interrelated yet distinct strategic action fields. To better understand how implementation activities unfold within a system, it is important to describe and analyze actual dynamics occurring at different scales in a system. Whereas previous appendixes focus on cataloguing the participants, resources, and technologies operating at various levels, this tool helps highlight how authority and culture shape what is created and how it changes.

To provide a way forward, take some time to do some analysis of the dynamics and desirable outcomes in the implementation system. (We illustrate how to apply this framework ...