ABSTRACT
Bringing in clarifications about the process, about expectations, about roles is an important and ongoing task of successful multi-stakeholder collaboration. Multi-stakeholder collaborations don’t have the luxury of a traditional leader, as there is no formal hierarchy or power structure. The small innovation cycle builds around two connected multi-stakeholder events. The overall objective is to identify and develop solid prototypes solving the issue defined up-front. The large innovation cycle covers the entire co-creation process and includes the small innovation cycle. It covers nine separate building blocks that together constitute a success multi-stakeholder innovation process. The initiator and the facilitator reflect about the process overall, the three challenge dimensions of the individual, the group, and the shared issue level, as well as the outcome of the whole co-creation process. A typical co-creation event consists of a multitude of stakeholder engagement and interaction exercises and workshops designed to balance listening, sharing, visioning, brainstorming, ideation, and early prototyping.
