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The Strategic Perspectives help you understand where you think you can have most impact. You don’t have to choose between them - rather, it’s It’s a tool you can use in discussions with colleagues and to help shape your change pathway and impact assessment.
Some projects are explicitly geared to contribute positively to society. Others are designed to lead to an economic effect. Most will have a bit of everything - you might note that organisational innovation also leads to economic effects and that external innovation leads to better environmental impact. Don’t worry about putting yourself in one specific perspective! You might like to think of it like a venn diagram, with overlapping impact areas. The tool draws from the Balanced Value Impact Mode, which sets out that our investments and actions in digital cultural heritage should have a balanced return. The Strategic Perspectives help you keep this in mind.
How do I use it?
You will need to think about which perspective(s) will be most dominant in your impact assessment or activity that you are planning. This will influence the types of questions that you will ask and how you will report the findings. You can use the tool as a discussion prompt to help your colleagues think about the impact that they have or want to have through their work.
When can I use it?
In Phase one, you can use the Strategic Perspectives tool in a workshop setting. You might also want to use it later to shape your impact narrative or to evaluate your impact approach. The strategic perspectives canvas has been updated and now has five different impact areas you can discuss to think about your impact.
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