We present a large-scale systemic intervention conducted in the wine village communities of
Cyprus. The scientific aim of this paper is to contribute to expanding community operational …

The paper reviews the evolution of Interactive Management, later referred to as Structured
Democratic Dialogue, starting from the early 1970s up to this date. The authors propose a …

Structured dialogic design is a methodology for integrating diverse ideas into coherent
understanding through open and focused dialogue. There are two primary approaches for …

This article proposes the importance of admitting into the repertoire of Problem Structuring
Methods for (Community) Operational Research, the methodology called Structured …

This paper reports on a Community Operational Research (Community OR) project
consisting of ten applications of a problem structuring method (PSM) with the Local …

The emergence of information, and more recently, mobile broadband telecommunication
technologies, was accompanied by the hype that they could serve to close the economic …

In this chapter, we discuss three decisive parameters for successful large-scale societal
interventions: 1. The selection of the most representative and relevant stakeholders; 2. The …

We present a method that broadens the application of structured democratic dialogue
(SDD). After completing the final stage of the SDD process, during which the participants …

The paper reviews and discusses several definitions of wisdom. The aim is to stimulate and
hopefully launch a debate regarding the challenges we face in our attempts to understand …

The paper exemplifies why the capacity of a community of stakeholders to implement a plan
of action effectively depends strongly on the true engagement of the stakeholders in …