# Bigger questions about the system of focus:


* [ ] How will we know this system is working well? What will be different?
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* [ ] What will help this system to work well? What will help this system to flourish? What do we need to get right?
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* [ ] What will hinder this system working well? What could get in the way?
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* [ ] Who are the stakeholders? What do they want from this system? What does this system need from them to be successful?
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* [ ] Now write the story of your system/ business/ venture
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**Questions to extend a CLD:**
* [ ] What else affects variable X? What makes it go up? What makes it go down? How?
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* [ ] What else does variable Y affect? How?
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* [ ] Does an increase in variable X make variable Y go up or down? (If up relationship is "S", if down relationship is "O".)
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* [ ] Can we close any loops? ie are there relationships between existing variables that are missing?
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* [ ] Can you think of any existing virtuous or vicious cycles in this system? 
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* [ ] Can you think of any corrective/balancing loops in this system?
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**Questions to verify a CLD:**
* [ ] Cul de sacs (Variables affecting nothing else in the diagram): What do they affect (either existing or new variables?) How?  
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* [ ] Dangles (Variables with nothing affecting them in the diagram) What affects them (either existing or new variables?) How? 
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* [ ] Disconnected (Variables with no connections to other variables) What do they affect? What affects them?  
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* [ ] Are the variables capable of variation? Is the wording specific enough?
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* [ ] Do the relationships make sense?
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* [ ] Does the conversion to english make sense? Can you tell the story of the diagram?
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# Questions to help design an intervention:
* [ ] What variables can we influence in this diagram?
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* [ ] How can we influence them?
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* [ ] What are the true root causes of the issue? What can we do about those?
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* [ ] Who needs to be involved in making this happen?
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* [ ] What will be the impact (positives and negatives)?
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* [ ] Who will be impacted? How?
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