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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.
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Take things away until the "design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
—Alan Cooper"
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Systems Thinking
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Reductionist Thinking"Focuses on snap shots of the whole
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Systems Thinking"Circular Causality
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Sub-System Service
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Supra-System Market
Systems Thinking"Embeddedness
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Systems Thinking"Interconnectedness
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Macro Economy
Industry Market
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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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Framing Mapping of the eco-system around individual "points to uncover the surrounding context "and relationships.
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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 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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Systemic Partners "http://systemic-partners.com"Berlin / San Francisco