"We gather stakeholders, vet ideas, find areas of agreement and highlight areas of disagreement".
b) Providing stakeholders with ideas on the possible interactive features that could be incorporated in a video based environment.
Ninety stakeholders sorted the ideas by similarity/relatedness, and 308 stakeholders rated the ideas with respect to their importance to the success of the research networks.
The Delphi method allows a panel of stakeholders to generate ideas on a given topic and to reach a consensus on the relative importance of those ideas [ 13, 14].
For example, we defined active days as days where some group interaction took place, (e.g. stakeholders being added, ideas being posted, comments added to discussions).
A qualitative approach was employed which provided rich data grounded in stakeholders views and ideas [ 30].
Similarly, a review of 239 published case studies in environmental decision making concludes that involved stakeholders contribute new ideas and analysis and improve decisions (Beierle 2002).
"The stated goal of the group would be to develop the analysis, ideas, stakeholder networks and public support that can contribute to Labour winning the next election and becoming a successful and progressive government," says the memo.
In general, stakeholders support the idea of launching the next national foresight programme (advantage), but there is no such support on a governmental (political) level (disadvantage) at this time.
Stakeholders supported the idea of putting more efforts into the development of these new processed meat products but found it difficult to communicate about this innovation to the public, as they felt an apparent gap between consumers' perceptions and facts might exist.
The board members were able to lineup other stakeholders behind this idea -- funders, business leaders.
