Forest multi-decision maker regional planning at the Portuguese Chamusca County

General case description

Brief overview

The project aims forest decision-making analysis at regional level, applied to the Portuguese Chamusca County case study. Several types of stakeholders took part in workshop meetings for specific decision-making processes characterization, applying an adaptation of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) methodological approach. The subsequent integrated analysis identifies required decision-making tools and enables the Integrated Forest Management Toolbox Platform (iFMtoolbox) functional specification.

Organization

The project is conducted by ISA [[1]] as part of the EU project Motive [[2]]. Stakeholders are involved across the entire iFMtoolbox specification. The participation process occurs from July 2009-Jul2010 and was organized in several workshop meetings with all regional stakeholders:

• It started with selection of the key-stakeholder, who was the regional contact point responsible for contacting all other stakeholders. They were selected in the course of brainstorm meeting with the key-stakeholder. They all took part in a collective project kick-off meeting.
• The individual 2-days specification workshop meetings are conducted by an EA skilled facilitator, who applies the “Port-IT method” for drawing the top-down hierarchical process architecture, starting with the collective context diagram, the stakeholders’ decision-making overall model and the forest decision-making process flowcharts.
• The stakeholder process architecture report (word and HTML format) is produced and validated. It is automatically generated by the VISIO drawing tool, which supports all representations and structures the collected data into pre-defined templates.
• The integrated decision-making models and project conclusions are systematized and discussed in the course of workshop meetings with the key-stakeholder. They are further discussed with all the involved stakeholders in a project ending meeting.

The project team includes:

• 1 team leader responsible for project management and stakeholders contacts (10% allocation)
• 1 EA expert performing workshop meetings facilitation and documents validation (50% allocation)
• 1 EA assistant following all workshop meetings and producing the correspondent Process Architecture reports (75% allocation)

Problem structuring

The problem of forest multiple decision-making at regional level was defined in the course of the project throughout stakeholders’ involvement in several workshop meetings following the the EA approach.

Intelligence

Stakeholders

The stakeholders list encompasses 32 participants from 22 entities, grouped into 4 categories, as presented in the table below.