Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Overview  Organizational vs Social Networks  Organizational networks –Principles –Concepts –Examples  Group scenario

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Forms of Implementation  Collaboration as increased understanding  Collaboration as a plan or contract  Collaboration as ongoing interaction –Interaction can be ad hoc –Interaction can be a defined “path” or “bridge”

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Interorganizational Networks  Support for the network –Allocating resources –Organizational responses  Sharing power with network –Clear scope & participants –Clear network authority  Coordination procedures –Information exchange –Joint decision making

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Network Case Examples

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Network Case Examples Rogue BasinTrinity Inlet

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Network Case Examples Rogue Basin  Participants –Federal and state agencies –Watershed councils –Others  Structure –RBCC Coordinator –Coordinating Committee –MOU  Power –Data sharing –Priority setting Trinity Inlet  Participants –State agencies –Local governments –Port authority  Structure –TIMP Coordinator –Technical Committee –TIMP Plan and Budget  Power –Data sharing –Joint review of permits

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Coordination Procedure Examples Rogue Basin  Data sharing system  Ecological Mgmt Decision Support Model –Data sharing –Assessing conditions –Prioritizing efforts Trinity Inlet  TIMP Technical Committee  Joint Permit Review –Parasailing –Marina dredging –Airport fuel storage –Gravel mining –Boat refueling

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Scenario Interorganizational Network CriteriaCase Scenario Support for the network Commitment of resources Commitment of staff time Sharing power with network Clear area of responsibility for network Clear network authority (vs. individual decisions) Coordination procedures Information exchange (what, when, how) Joint decision making (how to decide)

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Issues and Discussion  Agency turnover  Data sharing complexity  Transaction costs*  Power sharing* “It’s harder to set your priorities and then lay them out on the table and have other agencies come in and say, “Well, let’s change that for you.”…It changes your work plan; it changes your focus; it changes what people do on the ground. There is a lot that goes into giving up your autonomy.” “I don’t have enough time, so I was interested in the topic professionally and personally, but I need to link it to the work I do for the City. Things need to be linked to accomplishments—it has to be done within a year. That way I can justify my time for the City”

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Networks as Bridge Building With the teamwork approach we got a lot of synergy…It is more difficult to work in an [collaborative] manner, with so many different programs…It is not easy to build bridges, but once you have built bridges it easy to travel them.