Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results – Building State Capability

This 12 part podcast series will walk you through the PDIA approach to solving complex development problems.

3,500 development practitioners in 148 countries have used the PDIA approach. Learn more about PDIA or download our free DIY Toolkit. Watch the Practice of PDIA videos.

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October 10, 2019

PDIA in Practice 1: The Big Stuck and Capability for Policy Implementation

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October 16, 2019

PDIA in Practice 2: Techniques of Successful Failure

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October 23, 2019

PDIA in Practice 3: Building the Capability You Need

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October 30, 2019

PDIA in Practice 4: PDIA to Escape

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November 6, 2019

PDIA in Practice 5: People as The Source of Capability in PDIA

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November 12, 2019

PDIA in Practice 6: Constructing Problems

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November 20, 2019

PDIA in Practice 7: Deconstructing Problems

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November 27, 2019

PDIA in Practice 8: Sequencing – Using Change Space Analysis to Identify Entry Points

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December 4, 2019

PDIA in Practice 9: Crawling the Design Space for Possible Solutions

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December 11, 2019

PDIA in Practice 10: Building and Maintaining Authorization

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December 19, 2019

PDIA in Practice 11: Designing and Learning from Your Iteration

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December 25, 2019

PDIA in Practice 12: Thinking Big and Small