Tools and Examples

The tools and resources on this page emerged from our work and we offer them to help translate the concepts of the Many-to-Many System into tangible action. Please consider them starting points—templates to adapt, processes to try, or examples to test in your own collaborative work

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Multi-Value Asset Mapping

Multi-Value Asset Mapping

Mapping of the different assets, especially non-tangible, being brought to a complex collaboration.

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Role Cards for Flexible Governance

Role Cards for Flexible Governance

Supports the development of flexible power, responsibility, accountability and risk-holding.

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Offer Canvas

Offer Canvas

Articulates activities and ideas collaborators wish to offer, whilst paying attention to capacity and energy.

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Kick Off Workshop Canvas

Kick Off Workshop Canvas

Identifies principles, values and key strategic directions in the early stages of a collaboration.

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Many-to-Many Agreement

Many-to-Many Agreement

Showcases the contracting approach, the deep code shifts and the legal commitments made in our Proof of Possibility.

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Legal Architecture Experiment Log

Legal Architecture Experiment Log

An experimenter’s log showing the key legal areas we explored and how these connect to deep code shifts.

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Process Stewardship Experiment Log

Process Stewardship Experiment Log

Log book from the process stewardship perspective of the things tried and tested in the proof of possibility

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Field Guide

Field Guide

A guide to support governance practitioners to explore and navigate the different terrains of complex collaborations.

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Simple Context Diagnostic

Simple Context Diagnostic

A model looks at two starting conditions of collaborations and how they lead to distinct characteristics and behaviours, and may be approached with different processes.

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Collaboration Process

Collaboration Process

A snapshot of the collaboration process we developed in our Proof of Possibility.

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Kick Off Workshop Agenda

Kick Off Workshop Agenda

Agenda outlining the key discussion items and timing from the kick off meeting in our Proof of Possibility.

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Demand Led

As part of this work, we have identified a number of potential instruments for implementation that may be useful. However, we’d prefer to only develop these if there is demand. Let us know if any of these seem interesting and we can start conversation about their development.

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Charting risk flows

Charting risk flows

A snapshot of how we mapped and understood risk flows.

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Collaboration Team Space

Collaboration Team Space

An anonymised template from the Notion Team Space created for the Proof of Possibility collaboration to hold information and learning.

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Deeply coding governance structures: a flow map tool

Deeply coding governance structures: a flow map tool

A tool showing how assumptions are deeply coded into governance structures.

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Legal Design Workshop

Legal Design Workshop

A workshop designed for Legal Practitioners who work in (or wish to) complex collaborations.

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Legal Scope Sensing

Legal Scope Sensing

A simple flow chart to help analyse the legal scope for innovation in your context.

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Many-to-Many as an alternative to bilateral grantmaking

Many-to-Many as an alternative to bilateral grantmaking

A guide to how the Many-to-Many System may apply as an alternative to bilateral grant making approaches.

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Many-to-Many in a small group collaboration (aka the proof of possibility)

Many-to-Many in a small group collaboration (aka the proof of possibility)

Insights from applying a Many-to-Many approach in a small group collaboration.

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Spotting patterns in your context: diagnostic tool

Spotting patterns in your context: diagnostic tool

A diagnostic tool to analyse patterns within your context and to suggest process considerations.