DoView lets you build 'non-silioed' outcomes models. Have you have ever been frustrated working with a strategic planning or other outcomes system which forced you to enter an activity or task under just a single higher level outcome? If so, you were up against a system which demanded a 'silioed' approach.

 

The purpose of building good outcomes models is to try to realistically model the pattern of causes and effects in the real world which lie behind your project, program, policy, organization, joint-venture or sector. Software or database approaches which force you to build a 'silioed' model force you to distort the reality you are working with. Users often have to respond to such artificial restrictions by putting in the same, or sometimes differently worded, but similar, lower level outcomes under a number of the higher level outcome silios. This is inefficient and creates confusion for those viewing the model.

 

In contrast, DoView lets you link any lower-level step to any number of higher-level outcomes within a model and so lets you create non-silioed more realistic models. When your models include more than one page (which is often the case) DoView lets you place clones ('live copies') of any of your outcomes on any page. When it comes to updating an outcome, the name, row in the details table and links of any clones of the outcome you are updating are all updated automatically right across the model.