THE WATER OF SYSTEMS CHANGE
The paper explores systems change, emphasizing the interdependent conditions affecting social issues and advocating for foundations and social institutions to address both internal and external factors for lasting impact.
collectiveimpactforum.orgsystem-wide; planned change efforts; focused on the total system and not just one aspect of it; targeted at the human side of the enterprise; aimed at improving organization effectiveness.
But as you move toward the more intangible elements, such as people’s deep-seated attitudes and beliefs, your leverage for effective change increases. You come closer to looking at the underlying reasons why the rules, physical structure, and work processes take their current form.
A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.
About each element, ask: What’s causing changes in this element? What…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
By its nature, systems thinking points out interdependencies and the need for collaboration.
A brief backgrounder on transition mapping
In practical terms, this type of mapping — instead of representing the current state of the system, as most system maps do — highlights the underlying drivers and blockers of change of any system transition, enabling us to more effectively pinpoint the strategic intervention areas which can support that tra
... See more