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# Sprint 4: Inducing network effects

To analyse value exchanges between interdependent actors, appreciate interconnected network effects and identify actions to increase and improve interactions.

Networks are everywhere, every system is a network. We need to deliberate what each key actor wants to get from and what they can give to the others (value exchange). Value exchanges, when increased and improved, induce network effects and create momentum such that the collective impact is greater than the sum of individual actions. But, there is a challenge. How to start the chain reaction, how to overcome the initial difficulty with adoption? 

**Pre-requisite:** A strategy map with explanation of the for-with-leveraging-enabling layers

**Pre-requisite:** An updated version of the design document (SDA5) based on sprint 3 outputs

**Downloadable assets** that are useful for preparing for / facilitating this sprint:

* [S4A1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qjUEozYv9kZb1Pj4wYJM9mTyUSJqmNyh/view?usp=drive_link): A primer on types of networks and typical network effects
* [S4A2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WidC0H1BUCTy-fMPnS5mRPpsrTilzMR4/view?usp=drive_link): Objectives and agenda for the time we will spend together
* S4A3: A slide deck to help select actions to induce network effects
* S4A4: A guide to enable those who want to facilitate this sprint
* [SDA5](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10y8qmaoIwF_dkMgaZmURZHNQmHczUzV8/view?usp=drive_link): The design document where all sprint outputs are curated

Please email <design@societalthinking.org> to request a copy of A3 and A4 assets.

**Post-work:** Core value exchanges, network patterns and actions to induce network effects

**Post-work:** An updated version of the design document (SDA5) based on sprint 4 outputs


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