1. Structural capabilities, not isolated fixes: Real transformation hinges on how the parts talk, decide, and adapt—not on dropping a shiny app, a policy mandate, or a pilot project into the mix. Sensing bandwidth, feedback latency, agency distribution, and norm plasticity are the pipes and circuits of systemic learning. 2. Learning order precedes ... See more
Other foundations are applying one mental model during strategy development and another for evaluation and learning. In recent years, for example, more foundations have been doing systems-change work that falls solidly within the systems-emergence model. But the approach to reporting almost always is aligned with a systems-dynamics model.