Leverage Points Si Guide Series
The guide provides an overview of using leverage points in systems change, emphasizing the importance of intervention strategies at different levels to achieve significant impact within complex systems.
media2-production.mightynetworks.comPLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
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Counterintuitive. That’s Forrester’s word to describe complex systems. Leverage points are not intuitive. Or if they are, we intuitively use them backward, systematically worsening whatever problems we are trying to solve
The systems analysis community has a lot of lore about leverage points. Those of us who were trained by the great Jay Forrester at MIT have all absorbed one of his favorite stories. “People know intuitively where leverage points are,” he says. “Time after time I’ve done an analysis of a company, and I’ve figured out a leverage point — in inventory
... See moreA good strategy draws power from focusing minds, energy, and action. That focus, channeled at the right moment onto a pivotal objective, can produce a cascade of favorable outcomes. I call this source of power leverage.*
Leverage points for transformation — Analyzing the transition factors and the systemic challenges they give rise to enabled us to identify strategic leverage points, the next layer of insight on the map. Leverage points are the strategic areas where a capital intervention can have an outsized effect on system transformation, creating ripple effect
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