The DoView approach is that a comprehensive electronic version of an outcomes model (strategy map etc) should lie at the center of all program and organization life. The same basic outcomes model should be used for strategic planning, priority setting, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, research and development planning, contracting and other aspects of organization life. Such models need to be well constructed and they should be visualized in software in such a way that they can be used in real-time during any important program or organizational meetings.

 

Users often build large outcomes models with other types of software which they can read at the resolutions normally used on desktop PCs or when printed out on large pages (such as ledger/A3). Such models can be built in DoView if the user wishes. However, when such models are used in a meeting with a data projector, meeting participants often cannot read the detail in the models. This happens because of the combination of data projectors' resolution (often 1024x768) and the physical size of the typical data projector screen which is used.

 

DoView has been designed to make sure that, as far as possible, all the details of any DoView model (when built using compact pages) are clearly viewable when used with a data projector at 1024x768 resolution on a typically-sized physical data projector screen in a medium sized meeting room. (See the Section on Why You Should Use Compact 1 x1 Pages for more information, and note that you can clone a copy of your model made in compact pages to a larger poster size pages whenever you wish.

 

This enables the electronic version (rather than just paper printouts) of a DoView model to be studied and amended in real-time within a meeting. If the screen is too small in a very large conference room then the model will not be able to be viewed properly.

 

If using DoView with a data projector you should check that the data projector is set at a 1024x768 resolution. This will make sure that the details of the model as large as they can be on a data projector screen. See the Section on Screen resolution for more information.