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MX Conference 2011 Systemic design of large-scale program-level initiatives Alexander Baumgardt Public Slide Deck Founding Partner Some contents and slides have been edited or removed Systemic Partners due to their confidential and Berlin / San Francisco proprietary nature.

Systemic Design of program-level Initiatives

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This an reduced slide deck of an talk I gave at MX 2011 – a conference for people who take a leadership role in guiding better experiences into the world. MX serves up examples to learn from and approaches to adopt that can help you lead your organization toward investing in or improving your customer experience on the web, mobile, and more – looking at the key elements critical to your success as a leader: experience strategy and communicating that strategy, organizational buy-in, results-oriented investment and measurement, and the emerging trends you'll have to master. About the conference: http://mxconference.com/2011/ About my talk: http://mxconference.com/2011/speakers/alexander-baumgardt

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MX Conference 2011"Systemic design of large-scale program-level initiatives

Alexander Baumgardt Public Slide Deck "Founding Partner Some contents and slides "

have been edited or removed "Systemic Partners due to their confidential and "Berlin / San Francisco proprietary nature.

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Systemic Partners is an advisory firm, enabling organizations to innovate on business-, product- and service strategy by looking beyond the known event-horizon.

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Systemic Partners is helping decision makers in mastering complexity and resolving uncertainty — to get comfortable with change and anticipate opportunities therein.

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The guiding motto in life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.

—Alfred North Whitehead "

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Take things away until the "design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

—Alan Cooper"

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Context

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Context + Case

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Systems Thinking

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Reductionist Thinking

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Reductionist Thinking"Focuses on snap shots of the whole

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Can’t see the forest for the trees.

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Systems Thinking"Correlation

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Systems Thinking"Circular Causality

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Systems Thinking"Inputs & Outputs

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Systems Thinking"Coherency

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Sub-System Service

System Organization

Supra-System Market

Systems Thinking"Embeddedness

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Systems Thinking"Interconnectedness

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Macro Economy

Industry Market

Trends

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Strategy Products Services

Organization Ressources

Internal Forces External Forces

Holistic Perspective

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Observation Collection of facts, goals "and objectives

Determination Organization of key-"points into simplified "visual systems

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Visual Systemic Modeling Exploration Closing

Framing Mapping of the eco-system around individual "points to uncover the surrounding context "and relationships.

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Program-level initiatives

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Challenges of program-level"intiatives

Diverse stakeholder groups — Reaching organizational DNA-level — Long-term thrivability

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Diverse stakeholder groups — Reaching organizational DNA-level — Long-term thrivability

Programs are lived by and "through living beings …

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Feeling Thinking

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Doing Feeling Thinking

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Doing Feeling Thinking

Being

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Feeling Emotional agility

Thinking Intellectual agility

Doing Tactical agility

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Emotional agility Feeling

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Emotional agility

Openness — Empathy — Intrinsic "motivation

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Mindfulness — Adjustment — Optimism

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Intellectual agility Thinking

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Intellectual agility

Systems — Intuition — Emotional Intelligence

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Visualization — Synthesis — Abductive Reasoning

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Tactical agility Doing

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Tactical agility

Multi-disciplinary collaboration — Understanding & Need-Finding — Iterative Prototyping and Experimentation

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Tactical agility

Systems Mapping — Storytelling & Gamification — Co-Creation

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Systemic Design Principles

Environments Elements

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Systemic Design Mindset"

Look for patterns and interdependencies.

Focus on description rather than explanation.

Aim to extend peripheral "vision beyond traditional boundaries.

Assume complex, non-linear relationships.

Value curiosity, insight "and intuition.

Develop an lively interest "in the What, preceeding the Why.

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Systemic Design Mindset"

Look for patterns and interdependencies.

Focus on description rather than explanation.

Aim to extend peripheral "vision beyond traditional boundaries.

Assume complex, non-linear relationships.

Value curiosity, insight "and intuition.

Develop an lively interest "in the What, preceeding the Why.

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Work creatively "with paradox, uncertainty "and contradiction.

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Thank you. "

Alexander Baumgardt "[email protected]"+1 415 763 5260 "

Systemic Partners "http://systemic-partners.com"Berlin / San Francisco