Adam Zeiner
@dezein
a persistently curious generalist (parading as a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer) attempting to wrangle complexity
Adam Zeiner
dezein.info
systems thinking and
Knowledge Work and
systems thinking and
social impact and
1. Alignment & common language
Board of Innovation • Healthcare ecosystem mapping: A first step to shape your market
Our current approach to leading change in organizations didn’t happen by accident—it was the product of the era in which most management thinking developed.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
the first paper is out from our Leverage Points project [...] and lays out a conceptual framework and research agenda, all around the notion of “deep leverage points”
Ideas for Sustainability • Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
I was personally struck by the uniformity of this thinking across time and discipline – in general, there are six different levels of escalating complexity, each interdependent, each with an important role.Important to note here that in my table, "Leverage" is not the same thing as "Time to complete something."
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
Existing data rarely tells the story the design leaders need to tell. These metrics measure, at best, outputs
These UX metrics show activity in the design. They may occasionally show improvements in a few business metrics such as sales revenues or onboarding rates. However, the metrics won’t likely show if an improved design actually makes a
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