Adam Zeiner

The modern organization is rooted in military history—at the time, the most efficient model for coordinating large groups of people to achieve strategic objectives.

Depending on the use case you will scope your stakeholder map differently but generally having an ecosystem map offers three important benefits:

Many business leaders don’t know how to select the ecosystems, or how to identify those opportunities with the highest value. Shaping the ecosystem strategy requires focused, design-led work in three areas:

The Systemic Design Framework is an evolution of Design Council’s design frameworks, starting with the globally renowned Double Diamond, and more recently the Framework for Innovation. It is our way of synthesising how we see people on our own programmes, and through research with other designers using design to address complex challenges. These... See more

That typical hierarchical org chart does not depict the relationships between different parts of the team.

1. Alignment & common language

Recognises the importance of the ‘invisible activities’ that sit around the design process: orientation and value setting, continuing the journey, collaboration and connection, and leadership and storytelling. These activities are rarely recognised, and therefore rarely resourced, and rarely done.