PIR
PIR (Post-implementation review) is a standard technique to extract learning from a past event or experience and to then apply new knowledge to the future.
Uses of the method
- Lessons learned
- Identification of further possible fresh opportunities and risks
Benefits
- New learning
- Avoiding the same problem occurring
- Seizing fresh opportunities early
Disadvantages
- Needs openness and objectivity from the participants
Steps to complete
- Agree the objectives and the operating ground rules with participants
- Ask participants to review the issue and complete the template from the perspective of learning from the past to create better futures. Don't allow personal issues to be aired: concentrate on the Issue and associated evidence, not the person or hearsay
- Determine the fixed elements (almost certain hard trends) that will inform your strategic response: slow-changing phenomena e.g. demographic shifts, constrained situations e.g. resource limits, in the pipeline e.g. aging of baby boomers, inevitable collisions e.g. climate change arguments.
- Capture critical variables i.e. uncertainties, soft trends and potential surprises. Both these and the fixed elements will be key to creating scenarios and examining potential future paradigm shifts.
- Capture unique insight into new ways of seeing that can be utilized by the organization.
- What conclusions can we draw from the exercise(s)?
- How might the future be different?
- How does A affect B?
- What is likely to remain the same or change significantly?
- What are the likely outcomes?
- What and who will likely shape our future?
- Where could we be most affected by change?
- What might we do about it?
- What don't we know that we need to know?
- What should we do now, today?
- Why do we care?
- When should we aim to meet on this?
- Finish by noting your next steps. Next steps could include a further round of iteration, a recommendation on how to get the answers or use of other research and methods such as 'Starburst' to create more vantage points on the issue.
Collaboration
'Post implementation review' can be shared with others or kept private using the 'Visible to' fields and through the 'tag', 'report', 'share'', 'link and 'comment' functionality. Use 'tag' and/or 'report' to aggregate your analyzes, 'share' with others via email, Facebook and Twitter etc. or add a 'comment' to ask others where they agree/disagree and encourage them to make their own analysis from their unique vantage point.
Further reference
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