Transition Mapping: A Strategic Blueprint for Capital Allocators?
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
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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 tr... See more
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 tr... See more
Ivana Gazibara • Transition mapping: a strategic blueprint for capital allocators?
A recent academic article by Jewlya Lynn and Julia Coffman called
Passing in the Dark: Making Visible Philanthropy’s Hidden and Conflicting Mental Models for Systems Change
Describe two mental models for systems change
Systems dynamics approach: (the most common mental model in philanthropy)
Understand the system and its dynamics
Identify leverage poi... See more
Passing in the Dark: Making Visible Philanthropy’s Hidden and Conflicting Mental Models for Systems Change
Describe two mental models for systems change
Systems dynamics approach: (the most common mental model in philanthropy)
Understand the system and its dynamics
Identify leverage poi... See more