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Design Journeys - A Systemic Design Tourbook - Design Dialogues
Design Journeys - A Systemic Design Tourbook - Design Dialogues
Kristel Van Ael and I completed a year-long project for this special book, designing the first practitioner handbook for systemic design practice. BIS Publishers is listing the book, and it will be in print by May. We summarize the value proposition as follows: This book presents important new developments in systemic design, guided into practitioner pathways that teach the power of using visual tools in collaborative dialogue to make sense of complexity. As the 21st century becomes ever-more complicated, leaders and changemakers are forced to deal with highly complex issues on a daily basis, with decisions that may have impacts far into the future.  Accessibly designed as a launchpad for both new learners and experienced practitioners, Design Journeys Through Complex Systems will affirmatively shift how you, your team, and client projects generate insights about high-complexity problems. With the book’s 30 design techniques presented in context, you will discover powerful insights ... Read More
Design Journeys - A Systemic Design Tourbook - Design Dialogues
Causal Loop Mapping | Systems Grantmaking
Causal Loop Mapping | Systems Grantmaking
A visual mapping technique that shows the interconnected variables causing system outcomes and the direction of influence among variables. Causal Loop Maps usually do not show magnitude of influence, so it is difficult to determine the net impact of multiple variables. By dampening, amplifying, or breaking relationships among these variables, one can influence the system. It is helpful when trying to address a specific problem or issue within a system. This technique can be used independently or as a part of a Systems Mapping process.
Causal Loop Mapping | Systems Grantmaking
Pocket Guide: Using the Archetypes
Pocket Guide: Using the Archetypes
This handy pocket guide builds on Systems Archetypes at a Glance. This guide lays out a specific application for each archetype–for example, using “Growth and Underinvestment” to manage capital planning. Then, a seven-step process for designing an intervention is presented. Finally, an example of the archetype in action’s instance, escalating frequent-flyer promotions, is mapped onto […]
Pocket Guide: Using the Archetypes
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — …
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Causal Loop Construction: The Basics
Causal Loop Construction: The Basics
ystems thinking has been described as a language for talking about the complex, interdependent issues managers face every day. Within that framework, causal loop diagrams can be thought of as sentences that are constructed by identifying the key variables in a system (the “nouns”) and indicating the causal relationships between them via links (the “verbs”). […]
Causal Loop Construction: The Basics