How to draw a network map?
Ask the participants to draw the Now map–networks of people and organizations (the actors) already working in the area in which the project wishes to intervene, or is already intervening. Then ask them to build influence towers to indicate the relative influence of each actor in the respective networks they have drawn. Next to the towers they indicate if the actor’s attitude is negative, neutral or positive to what the project is trying to do.Then ask them to draw the Future map showing how the actors will need to be linked to achieve the project’s vision. Then they develop the scaling strategy in which they record the most important changes in the networks and attitudes, explain why the changes are important and who needs to do what to make them happen. Below is an example of a good map–one that shows relationships between different actors clearly and easy to understand as it does not have a huge amount of actors and lines. What is the key with network maps is to show what the autho
