ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Projects, Results, Uses and Benefits (PRUB) thinking to evaluate the challenging philosophies and psychologies of working with multiple stakeholders, the different types of stakeholders and their operational preferences and the OpenStrategies approach to stakeholder engagement and collaboration. Strategies created as suites of SubStrategies provide the necessary versatility which enables all the above aggregations, disaggregations and evolution of strategies. This means that as the foci of stakeholder's preferences evolve and merge and de-merge, their SubStrategies and OpenStrategies can similarly evolve and stay up to date if they use the OpenStrategies system. A psychologically important principle should apply to all strategies and which underpins OpenStrategies is the perspective that stakeholders participating in a strategy should all be viewed as volunteers. Many traditional strategies include actions which focus on capacity-building or capability-building in which employees within a provider organisation take part in training to build their skills.
