If the decision is to terminate the project, there is still an opportunity to preserve and share the prior work and findings. Pursue an externally focused Knowledge Translation effort to ensure the knowledge you assembled and created in the Discovery Phase is shared with all potential users. This ensures that the time, money and effort expended — and knowledge outputs generated to this point — have some chance of being put into practice by other stakeholders. The linked Knowledge to Action diagram and table provide more detail for tailoring and targeting the project outputs to effectively communicate them to external knowledge user groups.
Supporting evidence has been drawn from professional trade magazines and scholarly journals. Click on magnifying glasses throughout the model to review evidence specific to each stage or step, or view evidence related to the NtK Model as a whole. Review Search Tips for additional guidance.
Tools required to perform technical, market and business analyses can be found by clicking on toolbox icons in the model. Alternatively, you can explore a listing of all tools.
Cases exemplify specific opportunities or constraints.
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