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Introducing the Dia de Los Muertos Collection

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PDIA

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Well, I have done my best trying to answer the questions of our final assignment! I tried to show the whole path. It was not easy at all. Actually, I thought more than once that I would probably come back to Matt, Salimah, and Anisha and told them I couldn´t do it. That it was so hard.

But then I remembered Matt telling us that “sometimes realizing that we don’t fully understand the problem is a huge improvement”. And I think that is what happened to me.

I asked myself: Why I am doing all of this? Why I am going forward on the PDIA? Is this Harvard thing that important?

I realized I was doing it -and I always did- for our citizens. The people we, as public servants, are supposed to serve.

PDIA showed me that there is no right way to approach a problem. The problem is not to approach it. Taking things for granted and stop questioning the very reason why they are done leads us to the same results: frustrated citizens and a great discomfort with democracy itself.

Thank you all guys! And as Matt told me “Keep doing development without limits!”

Luis

Once in our home country, we faced again the same problems, but this time we had a new set of tools, an approach that will help us get the job done!

PDIA!

Well, Matt told us the path would be complicated and that maybe we won´t find all the answers. 

At this point, I thought I wasn´t making any progress. I didn´t realize the complexity of the process until I discover that my whole experience was about finding the public organizations interested in the implementation of the approach. In fact, in retrospect, this was my first way of iteration.

My country´s particular situation (the former President was impeached, the Vice President assumed the Presidential Office and the Congress was dissolved) made it very difficult for me to find any Ministry or National Agency interested in anything but the survival of their main policies (and jobs)!

So, I decided to deconstruct my own problem, and I prepared my fishbone:

I search for entry points and I realized that the main problem was the authorities don´t care about something they don´t understand. So, as Matt wasn´t coming to Peru any time soon, I decided to visit some public officers in order to explain to them the approach and find a way to go through this.

My first 4 or 5 attempts were a complete failure. But I kept trying. I traveled even out of Lima (my hometown) to find public organizations interested in the application of the PDIA.

I tried to keep myself optimistic but I was getting hopeless! Happily, I got my IPP family backing me up!

Anisha was amazing keeping us together! I guess we would never get this far without her. Thank you!

I understand that every time I visited a new authority, I have to focus on the relevance of the PDIA linked to the public value creation process. I learned that I can not avoid the context and I had to read about the problems of the region/institution/people I was visiting in order to be more effective.

As for my expectations about the course, well I thought it will be a very theoretical, book-oriented program with some interaction spaces and lots of academic work to do!

Of course, I was not totally mistaken! At HKS we had lots of readings, study sessions, and classes with world-class faculty. But it was not entirely theoretical, boring or book-oriented. We really learned by listening and participating through the debates and experiences of our professors...

Of course, not everything was that harsh, we had some fun too!

I really enjoyed the on-campus experience!

One of the key learnings from this course is that your work is never really done. PDIA is based on iterations, permanently trying to understand in a better way the problem in order to find comprehensive solutions to our citizens. These iterations are at the core of the whole process because they help to identify and delimitate the problem.

Another important learning is related to the ability to build relationships based on mutual trust. You can´t promise to solve all the problems (or even one single problem!) having only one iteration. You have to be very honest with the organization and help to shape expectations. Otherwise, they won´t believe you never again. People do appreciate transparency as a way to show respect for their time and effort.