Table 3.

Three Collaborative Performance Summits

	Street Prostitution	Childhood Obesity	Sports and Alcohol
Actors in performance routine	Diversity of actors present, but not all relevant actors are willing to join the summit	Comprehensive range of actors present, ranging from teachers to policy makers, health experts to citizen volunteers	Small, but diverse set of actors present, representing different roles and perspectives related to the initiatives
Explicating performance goals	Summit starts with lengthy search for what community wants to achieve, revealing mainly harm avoidance goals	Government had pre‐set focus on BMI reduction, but summit establishes broader goals around well‐being	Goals were vaguely specified in covenant and actors mainly discuss potential trade‐offs between them
Exchanging performance information	Street‐level professionals share anecdotal insight into daily reality of zone	Highly diverse information ranging from anecdotes to large health survey are discussed, actors seeking ways to tie data together	Broad goals make selecting key info difficult. Actors share statistics, personal experiences, expert opinion
Examining performance progress	Progress is hard to assess as the main goal is harm avoidance for an otherwise stubborn problem	Unstructured review of evidence on what progress is made, focusing mainly on gaps in approach	Progress difficult to track, street‐level partners show potential trade‐offs are not problematic, provide small win evidence
Exploring performance actions	Summit is concluded without agreeing on anything, although all partners have a better view of the problem	Summit leads to abolishment of targets and a shift towards a more network‐centric approach	Summit leads to re‐shaping the initiative in a more hierarchical fashion as councilors conclude learning stage is over