1. why outreach
2. to whom
3. developing the questions
4. survey process
5. interview process

Identification of constituencies

Create first pass at list of constituencies, lists, meetings, individuals we’d like to reach for their input

Developing the questions

3/2/19've not yet found examples of survey questions, but i am finding a common set of recommendations for structuring interviews. I've found a number of variations on "the seven questions". Included below is the list provided in Scenario planning: strategic interviews and conversations


The ``seven-questions'' approach. This originates in the work of the Institute of the Future (Amara and Lipinski,1983), and has successively been refined by Shell (Schwartz, 1991), van der Heijden (1996) and ICL (Ringland, 1998). In essence, it comprises a set of questions, which have been adapted by the researcher generically to read:

• If you could pose three questions to a clairvoyant who can foretell the future, what would you ask?
• In the best possible world what would you hope for?
• In the worst possible world what are your greatest fears?
• What pivotal events from the past few years provide good lessons for the future?
• What major decisions with long-term implications are faced at the moment?
• What major constraints do you experience inside/outside the organisation/system?
• If all constraints were removed, and you could direct what is done, what would you do?

(There are other variants such as ``What is your best dream?'', ``What is your worst nightmare?'' and ``What keeps you up at night?''.)


To see how these are adapted, slide 7 of  this presentation  shows one organization's refinements:

Survey process

Various platforms were considered. Google docs despite flaws

Interview process

recordings for 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,