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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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Seeing the forest and the trees."Peter M. Senge Systemic Partners 16 March 2011

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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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Systems Thinking"Embeddedness

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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

ACME

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

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Doing

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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


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