Translating Insights into Action Plans

Translating Insights into Action Plans involves transforming the findings from earlier chapters into alternative courses of action, as well as explaining findings and alternative courses of action in stakeholder-friendly formats. Initiatives are translated into multi-stage courses of action. These potential aspirational courses of action are discussed in considerable detail, including how stakeholders will be supported to understand and trust these alternative ways forward for each challenge. Positive deviants are people or organizations whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to formulate and implement better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges. Compelling examples for each of the four challenges are discussed in terms of why and how these successes resulted.