• Remote individual work.
• Structured sessions steered by a moderator and facilitators.
• Semi-structured sessions with the help of a facilitator.
• Unstructured and open discussion.
During the different sessions, the participants are asked not only to evaluate and
provide feedback to materials presented by the organizers but also encouraged to
present their own contributions and ideas.
The first step of the assessment has been structured through an approach integrating Analytic Network Process (ANP, Saaty 2005) and the Interactive Visualization Tool (InViTo), test visualization tools able to support the decision-making in
real time, in order to create a shared basis for generating discussion (Lami et al.
2014). A single network ANP model was developed in order to generate a free and
open discussion among the stakeholders involved. The decision problem in exam
has been divided into five clusters (namely, economic development, spatial development, rail operation, environment and logistics). Each cluster has been divided in
turn into elements (or nodes) representing the specific aspects of the decision
problem (Fig. 6.1) and visualized in real time with InViTo (Pensa et al. 2013).
Mention has to be made to the fact that in this application, the ANP is not used as
a method to determine a priority list of the different alternatives in the decision
problem. The ANP model here is applied as a structured procedure that is able to
support the assessment of the identification of the considered key development
factors in order to come to a decision. In this sense, it is a rather rare application
of ANP technique because the obtained results are not an order of alternatives but a
sorting of criteria (Abastante and Lami 2013; Bottero and Lami 2010).
The second step was constituted by a Collaborative Assessment assuming the
perspective of strategy design processes as peer learning practice. The Collaborative
Fig. 6.1 Example of InViTo maps provided during the workshop. (Source: Abastante et al. 2014)
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• Structured sessions steered by a moderator and facilitators.
• Semi-structured sessions with the help of a facilitator.
• Unstructured and open discussion.
During the different sessions, the participants are asked not only to evaluate and
provide feedback to materials presented by the organizers but also encouraged to
present their own contributions and ideas.
The first step of the assessment has been structured through an approach integrating Analytic Network Process (ANP, Saaty 2005) and the Interactive Visualization Tool (InViTo), test visualization tools able to support the decision-making in
real time, in order to create a shared basis for generating discussion (Lami et al.
2014). A single network ANP model was developed in order to generate a free and
open discussion among the stakeholders involved. The decision problem in exam
has been divided into five clusters (namely, economic development, spatial development, rail operation, environment and logistics). Each cluster has been divided in
turn into elements (or nodes) representing the specific aspects of the decision
problem (Fig. 6.1) and visualized in real time with InViTo (Pensa et al. 2013).
Mention has to be made to the fact that in this application, the ANP is not used as
a method to determine a priority list of the different alternatives in the decision
problem. The ANP model here is applied as a structured procedure that is able to
support the assessment of the identification of the considered key development
factors in order to come to a decision. In this sense, it is a rather rare application
of ANP technique because the obtained results are not an order of alternatives but a
sorting of criteria (Abastante and Lami 2013; Bottero and Lami 2010).
The second step was constituted by a Collaborative Assessment assuming the
perspective of strategy design processes as peer learning practice. The Collaborative
Fig. 6.1 Example of InViTo maps provided during the workshop. (Source: Abastante et al. 2014)
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I. M. Lami et al.