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Method: Conceptual processes summarized
Global Strategies Project
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Figure 1. Strategy entries: conceptual processes
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1.a: Detecting/Finding/Scanning
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accumulating variants
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symptoms/pre-strategies
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1.b: Eliminating/Rejecting/Filtering
-- non-strategies (cases, solutions, theories, events, projects)
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2.a: Clustering/Grouping
-- combining synonyms, aspects, duplicates
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tidying up variants
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2.b: Splitting/Distinguishing
-- combining synonyms, aspects, duplicates
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tidying up variants
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3.a: Responding to sources
-- sensitivity to where people are
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what people identify with
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accept unforeseen categories
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3.b: Detachment from fashionable
-- reservations concerning solution / value hype
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articulating value dimension
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clarifying value qualifiers as ordering principle
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4.a: Sharpening names/keywords
-- renaming / strategizing
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dehyping / deproblemizing
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what is the problem-focus of the solution
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alternative names to facilitate location
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4.b: Broadening / Balancing
-- inserting anthropocentric terms where implicity
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opening possibility of nonanthropocentric equivalent.
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opening up sets / series
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is there a complementary strategy
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5.a: Naming more general strategies
-- naming clusters
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creating intermediary strategies to group / label subclusters
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5.b: Determining level of specificity
-- appropriate cutoff points at bottom of hierarchies
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what should only be covered at a more general level
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6.a: Elaborating description
-- sharp, not waffly
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appropriate amount
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transfer aspects of megastrategy texts to substrategies
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6.b: Caring for poorly articulated (inadequately documented) strategies
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Figure 2. Strategy relationships: conceptual processes
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1.a: Detecting/Finding/Scanning
-- recognized relationships
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1.b: Eliminating/Rejecting/Filtering
-- misconceived relationships
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too vague, too specific
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2.a: Forming hierarchy
-- tidying up
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2.b: Distinguishing hierarchies
-- splitting off branches
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3.a: Shifting level to more general relationships
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3.b: Shifting level to more specific relationships
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4.a: Inserting implicit relationships
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4.b: Eliminating erroneous relationships
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5.a: Responding to necessity of ordering clusters
-- appropriate cutoff points
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adjusting from minimal to optimal ordering
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5.b: Avoiding excessive imposition of simplistic ordering
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6.a: Cross-referencing broader world problems
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6.b: Cross-referencing more specific problems
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7.a: Crossreferencing concerned organizations
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7.b: Crossreferencing bibliographic sources
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From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential