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DoView is designed to help you quickly build large or small outcomes models. Outcomes model go by different names including: logic models, intervention logics, program theories, theories of change, results chains, strategy maps, cause-effect models, etc. The name 'outcomes model' is a generic term for any model that shows the causes and effects (steps) that lead to high level outcomes. DoView is purpose built software (as opposed to generic drawing software) which has been designed to help you build and work with such models efficiently. Once you have built your outcomes model for your project, organization, collaboration, joint-venture or sector, you can use it as the basis for many areas of organizational life. See the DoView approach for a brief discussion of the ways in which you can use a DoView outcomes model.
To build an outcomes model:
| 1. | Identify the high level outcome or outcomes you want to achieve and enter them as steps on a DoView pages . If you are drawing a ding a Bottom-to-Top model you can put your highest-level outcomes along the top of a page and the steps needed to achieve them below. If you are building a Left-to-Right model you can put your highest-level outcomes on the right-hand side of the model and the steps which are needed to achieve them on the left. For a set of guidelines on building outcomes models see the Section Outcomes model guidelines |
| 2. | Progressively put in the lower-level steps that need to be achieved in order to make higher-level outcomes happen. If you need more than one page, drill-down to lower level pages to put more detail about particular steps on those lower-level pages. |
| 3. | Put in links between lower-level steps and the outcomes above them which they make happen (in those cases where it is not visually clear which steps lead to which or where you want to store additional information (e.g. evidence) about the links). (See the Details-Table Section). |
| 4. | In larger models, containing many pages, you can make links between outcomes on different pages (See Section on Links). |
| 5. | Enter any additional information you have into the details table in rows associated with steps or links in your model. |
Adding indicators and questions:
If you want to, you can add indicators or questions (e.g. evaluation or research questions) and place them on a page near by the outcomes they apply to. For more information on using DoView to produce an evaluation plan see the Evaluation Plan Section.
The example below shows two pages from outcomes model for a Green Houses - an Environmentally Sustainable Houses Project.
Top level of outcomes model - clicking on a 'page-jump' jumps to the drill-down page below
Drilled down page - which shows more detail of the model