Toolkit

Toolkit:
UNDP Platform-way-of-working

Welcome to the UNDP’s and DDC’s platform-way-of-working toolkit

This toolkit is the backbone of the transformation process of moving from project orientation towards a platform-way-of-working developed and tested in collaboration with UNDP and 40+ country offices. In combination with our introductions on governance, leadership, and learning, it allows an organization to change the mindset and imagine an early platform prototype.

Note that a part of the toolkit is based on tools from the Platform Design Toolkit team, developed by Boundaryless Srl, to whom we would like to extend a special thanks for their work. This re-use is made possible because they have chosen to publish their work under a Creative Commons BY-SA International 4.0 license, which is identical to the default license used here at the DDC, hence the license under which this Platform-way-of-working toolkit is published.

The license means that you are free to use it, change it, and exploit it for whichever purpose you like (also commercial) as long as you give credit to DDC, UNDP, and original developers mentioned above (whenever noted on each tool canvas). You also have to use the same Creative Commons BY-SA license on your derivative work.

Before you get started

Download the facilitator guide for the whole toolkit here.

The Toolkit

A1 – Mission Statement Generator

This exercise sets your foundation for future work by crafting a mission statement to guide your direction

B1 – Ecosystem Mapping and Question Cards

The purpose of this tool is to help you get an overview of the actors and potential participants on your platform and how they relate to your future platform.

B2 – Actor Story Generator

The purpose of this exercise is to get a better understanding of the relevance and reason for your actor clusters to be part of the ecosystem and, eventually, the platform.

C1 – Value Creating Systems

The purpose of this exercise is to explore and understand the interaction between you and your Stakeholder Clusters and the interaction directly between the identified clusters.

C2 – Interaction Mapping

This exercise aims to explore and understand the interaction between you and your Actor Clusters more in-depth

D1 – Ecosystem Journey

Now you start imagining a concrete and visual representation of the flow of your platform idea and the interaction between the stakeholder clusters you have identified. This tool helps clarify and test the platform design’s viability, feasibility, and sustainability