Part of the power of Systematic Outcomes Analysis is that it lets you see the relationships between the different building blocks in the system. This lets you integrate outcomes models, strategy, indicators and the various types of evaluation together with contracting. In particular, it tells you which elements you need to have done in earlier building blocks if you are wanting to try and do specific elements in later building blocks. This helps you avoid a situation where you cannot do a later building block element because you did not do one of its prerequisites at an earlier stage when you had the chance. The first prerequisites model is on the left (Prerequisites of elements in Systematic Outcomes Analysis building blocks 1-9). It looks at the relationships between all of the building blocks. Within this diagram, a solid line means that you must have done the earlier element in order to do the later element (the one with the inward arrow). A dotted line means that it is optional as to which elements you do, but that you must have done some of them. The reader new to Systematic Outcomes Analysis wanting to understand this diagram better should look at the model section of this web site.
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