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This open access book presents key concepts, approaches, and applications of the Collective Impact (CI) framework to enhance human and societal wellbeing. The authors analyse the special nature of CI and its role in providing common ground for trust-based, mutually informed service delivery of publicly or semi-publicly funded and implemented services to identify competencies and administrative arrangements as well as leadership and practical skills required for successful CI practice. Moreover, this book also positions CI initiatives within a systems thinking perspective, which suggests that one can only understand a system by looking at how all the parts interact with each other and how they are integrated. This book balances fundamental theoretical elements in CI initiatives and practical case examples from Finland, and helps managers and practitioners master the art of putting together CI-related initiatives. It offers new and fresh ways to conceive CI as a fundamental way to approach human wellbeing by finding new solutions to cooperation. It also conceives CI as a global mechanism to address complex and systemic societal challenges and problems like climate change and global pandemics, and aligns with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.
Based on scholarly research on CI as well as the authors' professional experience as academics, practitioners and consultants, this book offers original insights and guidance to decision-makers, leaders across sectors, practitioners as well general public on how to develop CI practices that enhance human and societal wellbeing.
List of contents
1. INTRODUCTION - WHAT IS COLLECTIVE IMPACT?
1.1 Prologue - "Let´s talk about children!"
1.2 Why this book?
1.3 Key concepts
1.4 The organization and approach of the book
1.5 Synthesis
2. THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL ORIGINS OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT
2.1 The evolution of CI approaches
2.2 "Founding fathers"
2.3 Applicable policy areas
2.4 The status quo
2.5 Synthesis
3. THE THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT
3.1 Complex systemic society and wicked societal problems
3.2 Metacognition, third-loop learning, and dialogue
3.3 Meta-governance and service-dominant -logic
3.4 Knowledge carving, making use of artificial intelligence and leading with knowledge
3.5 Synthesis
4. CASE: FINNISH LEARNING NETWORKS BASED ON COLLECTIVE IMPACT TO ENHANCE CHILDREN´S WELLBEING
4.1 The approach adopted
4.2 Building common ground and making sense of the development need
4.3 Planning and putting together the implementation mechanism
4.4 Running the programme
4.5 The role of artificial intelligence and the art of managing knowledge
4.6 Learning outcomes
4.7 Synthesis
5. THE GENERIC NATURE OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT APPROACH
5.1 From CI in utopia to utopia in CI: from scalability conundrum to scalability universe
5.2 The global and local nature of wicked problems
5.3 The future of wellbeing at individual and societal scale
5.4 Possible applicable policy areas to be address with the help of Collective Impact approach: climate change and global pandemics
5.5 A model proposed for CI-based mechanisms to address global challenges
5.6 Synthesis
6. CONCLUSIONS
6.1 Current times require the art of solving issues together
6.2 The original CI models and approaches re-visited
6.3 The way forward
6.4. Synthesis
7. REFERENCES
