Oklahoma City: The Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
25 years after helping to launch Oklahoma City's rebirth, I returned to celebrate. Why? Because OKC is the birthplace of Strategic Doing.
From 1993-2000, I helped guide the civic leadership in the rebirth of their city. In the process, I worked on a new model of complex collaboration. It turns out we can build these complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules..
In my presentation, I explained how I took the lessons we learned from OKC and applied them in a wide range of really complex situations.
Now it’s an open source discipline we are spreading across the world with a growing network of universities.
My path with OKC's leadership is crossing again, and we have some exciting announcements coming.
Stay tuned.
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You can get more on the backstory in our book: https://lnkd.in/eqZSc5H
Designing services as systems is increasingly important. Those in healthcare and government don’t have much of a choice. However, envisioning services as systems is a hurdle. The trouble is from commonplace definitions of ‘service’ and ‘system’. But what if they are one and the same? An approach to communicating the designs of services in the form of strategic narratives, involves solving a puzzle to generate the story. The puzzle represents the duality of system and service. The “proof of work” reflects the difficulty in designing services as systems.
Urban populations have been growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and there is growing concern that building-related environmental impacts also continue to rise. This has prompted a range of stakeholders in the built environment to make commitments to create and implement more sustainable building and construction solutions. Our research question thus mines this untapped potential: How might we enable widespread participation by actors in the built environment to participate in the transition toward a more circular economy? Our synthesis map focuses on the prosperous Canadian commercial building sector, and aims to empower actors within this industry to discover their unique role.
The concept of clusters has been around for nearly 30 years. However, not enough is known about how they form. Until now. The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab as focused on how to design and guide the conversations that lead to productive clusters. This article provides a summary.
A pretty comprehensive summary of the nexus of concepts that my current project .commUNITY is working on. We have rebranded the concept as an Ekosystem.
Oklahoma City: The Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
25 years after helping to launch Oklahoma City's rebirth, I returned to celebrate. Why? Because OKC is the birthplace of Strategic Doing.
From 1993-2000, I helped guide the civic leadership in the rebirth of their city. In the process, I worked on a new model of complex collaboration. It turns out we can build these complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules..
In my presentation, I explained how I took the lessons we learned from OKC and applied them in a wide range of really complex situations.
Now it’s an open source discipline we are spreading across the world with a growing network of universities.
My path with OKC's leadership is crossing again, and we have some exciting announcements coming.
Stay tuned.
----
You can get more on the backstory in our book: https://lnkd.in/eqZSc5H
Designing services as systems is increasingly important. Those in healthcare and government don’t have much of a choice. However, envisioning services as systems is a hurdle. The trouble is from commonplace definitions of ‘service’ and ‘system’. But what if they are one and the same? An approach to communicating the designs of services in the form of strategic narratives, involves solving a puzzle to generate the story. The puzzle represents the duality of system and service. The “proof of work” reflects the difficulty in designing services as systems.
Urban populations have been growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and there is growing concern that building-related environmental impacts also continue to rise. This has prompted a range of stakeholders in the built environment to make commitments to create and implement more sustainable building and construction solutions. Our research question thus mines this untapped potential: How might we enable widespread participation by actors in the built environment to participate in the transition toward a more circular economy? Our synthesis map focuses on the prosperous Canadian commercial building sector, and aims to empower actors within this industry to discover their unique role.
The concept of clusters has been around for nearly 30 years. However, not enough is known about how they form. Until now. The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab as focused on how to design and guide the conversations that lead to productive clusters. This article provides a summary.
A pretty comprehensive summary of the nexus of concepts that my current project .commUNITY is working on. We have rebranded the concept as an Ekosystem.
Slides from a research seminar presented at the University of the Sunshine Coast. The slides trace through how Strategic Doing developed and how existing scholarly research explains why this model works.
It is one thing to use the term “ecosystems” as a metaphor. It is quite another to create a new visual language to help universities and their partners see them. That is what the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab has been working on over the last few years. In partnership with Fraunhofer IOA based in Stuttgart, Germany they’ve develop a set of visual frameworks that can be used and adapted in efforts related to innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and a wide variety of economic development-related strategies.
Piret Tõnurist from OECD's OPSI visited Sitra Lab's HERÄÄMÖ XL breakfast event on 21.11.2019.
Piret Tõnurist, an Estonian, works for the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) where she promotes practical approaches in Systems Thinking and Anticipatory Innovation Governance. Piret works internationally with public-sector partners on these topics.
The presentation "Porfolios for system transformation" by Giulio Quaggiotto (Head of Strategic Innovation, UNDP) was held at Sitra's event Innovaatioportfolioryhmän luokkakokous on 5th of May, 2021.
Streams of Social Impact Work: Building Bridges in a New Evaluation Era with ...The Rockefeller Foundation
This working paper addresses the gaps and opportunities between the approaches of traditional public sector and NGO program evaluation and the social impact measurement approaches of new market-oriented players.
The authors posit that a convergence of these cultures would generate enormous rewards for both constituencies. New methodologies, evaluative tools and strategic learning processes would enrich social impact work, private giving and public-private partnerships. More nimble and business-like evaluation approaches would benefit traditional evaluation players and civil society. Thus bridging the divide would contribute to the rigor and utility of methods and practices and advance the effectiveness of evaluation everywhere.
Alternative Narratives on Economic Growth: Prototyping Change at the System L...Kimberley Peter
This presentation was given at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD7), Turin, Italy, in 2018.
Abstract: Increasing inequality, rising social unrest, and climate change suggest new approaches to economic growth are needed. This project asked “How might reframing growth enable change to a more desirable alternative?” and used two primary approaches in the process of discovery. Causal Layered Analysis was used to understand the causes, processes, and outcomes of economic growth and alternatives to it. Three narratives were analyzed comparatively including the current growth-first narrative, an emergent participation narrative, and a speculative freedom narrative. Outputs from this analysis were used to reframe the economy and create an accessible and participatory role-play experience for stakeholders to explore how change might happen. Responses to the role play experience show how powerful a participatory approach can be and provide insight into engaging diverse stakeholders as participants in the future of the economy not just as receivers of economic policy. Proposals are presented based on candidate strategies generated through role play.
Download the conference paper at https://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RSD7-proceedings_web.pdf (page 60-78), and the full research paper from the OCAD Open Research Repository at https://tinyurl.com/1f06bt4e
This presentation is meant to provide an overview of Applied Innovation in the arena of political practice. This first presentation in the Redefining Politics series will examine what Themes are and how they relate to the larger context of political or policy management.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network Presentation February 2019 Ed Morrison
The Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN: http://whin.org) is designing new networks to support the development and deployment of technologies for smart manufacturing and smart agriculture.
We have been working on new approaches to ecosystem development that can accelerate the development of WHIN, This presentation explains.
In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations and societies are struggling with the
complexity and uncertainties of emerging issues and challenges in the current dynamic
environment (Conklin, 2005; Snowden & Boone, 2007). Designers have a strategic role in
helping organizations to deal with this complexity and uncertainty by developing artefacts
that help experiencing possible futures (Maessen, van Houten, & van der Lugt, 2018).
Preliminary findings from our research showed that people with some help readily engage in
exploring far futures, yet have difficulties afterwards to distill next steps for the near future
while resisting the dominant collective pull to the comfort zone of current paradigms and
daily routines (Maessen, 2019). We therefore developed a workshop format, containing a
set of interventions and tools to guide people to engage in exploring far away possible
futures and link these back to anticipating actions in the present.
Flourishing Societies Framework - DwD Workshop Peter Jones
How might we move or collective thinking and action beyond single-issue social action?
Does it make sense to build our urban worlds and future societies by winning one political issue at a time?
Can we design civic business models for our cities and society?
All social services, determinants of health, and economics are complex and interrelated. So why do we expect any political body or activist group to get it right? Only meaningfully diverse, multi-stakeholder groups can envision the variety of interests and outcomes in complex social systems. In February's Design with Dialogue Peter Jones workshops tools for co-creating civic design proposals.
A significant design challenge of our time is anticipating the relationships of multiple environmental and social problems as a complex system of nonlinear relationships. However, we cannot think about, model or discuss the relationships well, especially in the heat of discussion with deliberative groups and decision making processes. We need not only better engagement and dialogue processes for citizen deliberative problem solving, we require relevant tools.
With the OCADU Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group and with Strategic Foresight & Innovation students we designed a relevant framework from the common language of business model tools, adapted for civic decision models for flourishing cities and settlements.
The Flourishing Cities framework adapts a design tool for strongly sustainable business models as a visual organizer for engaging stakeholders in co-creating normative operational guidance for civic groups, community planners, and local governments. Flourishing can be understood as “to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience,” or as John Ehrenfeld states it:
“Flourishing is the possibility that human and other life will flourish on this planet forever.”
This visual model enables a participatory mapping of propositions, values, and preferences that might yield significantly better group decisions for sociocultural and ecological development and governance in any planning engagement.
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedba.docxtroutmanboris
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedback’, what does it mean for forms of organisation, aesthetics and practice?
如果我们要通过“反馈”来理解文化,这对组织、美学和实践的形式意味着什么?
Week 9: Feedback and Systems Wednesday, 13.03.2019
Through the application of mechanical and scientific models for the understanding of social and political life, cybernetic theory – in particular notions of feedback – informed the development of many cultural, artistic and political projects in the mid-late 20th century, yet its influence is still under-recognized, especially in contemporary techno-political debates. This session will address cybernetic genealogies of information theory and systems thinking to see how current ideas around ‘planetary computation’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ draw on much longer and more equivocal histories than is often recognised.
6.Hacking is seen as a paradigmatic form of innovation, but also of political resistance and of contemporary knowledge politics. Working through some examples, discuss how these might come together.
黑客行为被视为一种创新的典范形式,但也被视为一种政治阻力和当代知识政治。通过一些例子,讨论它们是如何组合在一起的。
Week 4: The Hacker Wednesday, 06.02.2019
As a figure of the culture industry, the hacker is both symbol of ultimate innovation, of a free- thinking high-skilled rebel, but also as the avatar of destruction and chaos. This lecture will survey some of the claims made around the figure of the hacker, in particular examine Mackenzie Wark's reading of the political economy of hacking as a general theory of the production of the new in 'A Hacker Manifesto'. We will also open up the concept of ‘hacking’ as an intervention into the nuts-and-bolts of a technological system to interventions on the very structures of cognition, as in Catherine Malabou’s concept of neuroplasticity, and a metaphorical cannibalism as post-colonial ‘culture hacking’.
7.The figure of the user has become increasingly important in contemporary culture, how has this come about and what effects does it have?
在当代文化中,用户的形象变得越来越重要,它是如何产生的,产生了什么影响?
Week 2: Users-Things-Machines Wednesday, 23.01.2019
Alongside the consumer, the figure of the user is one of the casts of the culture industry that is most incessantly modelled and pre-figured. As cultural processes are often interwoven with computational and networked digital media and as design might be said to provide if not a general theory of culture but a 'general practice' of entities, processes and events, this lecture traces some of the ways in which users, consumers and audiences have been theorised, created and invented. At the same time, the technologically and ecologically inspired shift in social theory from subjects to objects, from masses to networks, and from people to things means we need to re-visit some of our assumptions about the agents of cultural production, also viewing the production of culture in line with other shifts in social approaches to knowledge, technics and labour.
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This document by Eelke Wielinga describes the FAN (Free Actor Network) approach and practical tools to promote effective networks where traditional planning is balanced with the energies, incentives and dreams of the members. Mr Wielinga was one of the speakers of the Systemic M&E webinar (Innovations in Measuring Impacts in Market and Financial Systems: rethinking the current paradigm). This webinar was organised by SEEP's MaFI in October 2012 and hosted in collaboration with USAID's Microlinks and FHI360. To know more about the FAN approach and Eelke's work go to www.toolsfornetworkers.nl
Introduction to Strategic Doing for Community DevelopmentEd Morrison
Strategic Doing developed at a very granular level: working on the complex challenges within neighborhoods and communities. This paper explores how this new approach for developing strategy can be used to strengthen communities.
Slides from a research seminar presented at the University of the Sunshine Coast. The slides trace through how Strategic Doing developed and how existing scholarly research explains why this model works.
It is one thing to use the term “ecosystems” as a metaphor. It is quite another to create a new visual language to help universities and their partners see them. That is what the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab has been working on over the last few years. In partnership with Fraunhofer IOA based in Stuttgart, Germany they’ve develop a set of visual frameworks that can be used and adapted in efforts related to innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and a wide variety of economic development-related strategies.
Piret Tõnurist from OECD's OPSI visited Sitra Lab's HERÄÄMÖ XL breakfast event on 21.11.2019.
Piret Tõnurist, an Estonian, works for the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) where she promotes practical approaches in Systems Thinking and Anticipatory Innovation Governance. Piret works internationally with public-sector partners on these topics.
The presentation "Porfolios for system transformation" by Giulio Quaggiotto (Head of Strategic Innovation, UNDP) was held at Sitra's event Innovaatioportfolioryhmän luokkakokous on 5th of May, 2021.
Streams of Social Impact Work: Building Bridges in a New Evaluation Era with ...The Rockefeller Foundation
This working paper addresses the gaps and opportunities between the approaches of traditional public sector and NGO program evaluation and the social impact measurement approaches of new market-oriented players.
The authors posit that a convergence of these cultures would generate enormous rewards for both constituencies. New methodologies, evaluative tools and strategic learning processes would enrich social impact work, private giving and public-private partnerships. More nimble and business-like evaluation approaches would benefit traditional evaluation players and civil society. Thus bridging the divide would contribute to the rigor and utility of methods and practices and advance the effectiveness of evaluation everywhere.
Alternative Narratives on Economic Growth: Prototyping Change at the System L...Kimberley Peter
This presentation was given at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD7), Turin, Italy, in 2018.
Abstract: Increasing inequality, rising social unrest, and climate change suggest new approaches to economic growth are needed. This project asked “How might reframing growth enable change to a more desirable alternative?” and used two primary approaches in the process of discovery. Causal Layered Analysis was used to understand the causes, processes, and outcomes of economic growth and alternatives to it. Three narratives were analyzed comparatively including the current growth-first narrative, an emergent participation narrative, and a speculative freedom narrative. Outputs from this analysis were used to reframe the economy and create an accessible and participatory role-play experience for stakeholders to explore how change might happen. Responses to the role play experience show how powerful a participatory approach can be and provide insight into engaging diverse stakeholders as participants in the future of the economy not just as receivers of economic policy. Proposals are presented based on candidate strategies generated through role play.
Download the conference paper at https://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RSD7-proceedings_web.pdf (page 60-78), and the full research paper from the OCAD Open Research Repository at https://tinyurl.com/1f06bt4e
This presentation is meant to provide an overview of Applied Innovation in the arena of political practice. This first presentation in the Redefining Politics series will examine what Themes are and how they relate to the larger context of political or policy management.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network Presentation February 2019 Ed Morrison
The Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN: http://whin.org) is designing new networks to support the development and deployment of technologies for smart manufacturing and smart agriculture.
We have been working on new approaches to ecosystem development that can accelerate the development of WHIN, This presentation explains.
In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations and societies are struggling with the
complexity and uncertainties of emerging issues and challenges in the current dynamic
environment (Conklin, 2005; Snowden & Boone, 2007). Designers have a strategic role in
helping organizations to deal with this complexity and uncertainty by developing artefacts
that help experiencing possible futures (Maessen, van Houten, & van der Lugt, 2018).
Preliminary findings from our research showed that people with some help readily engage in
exploring far futures, yet have difficulties afterwards to distill next steps for the near future
while resisting the dominant collective pull to the comfort zone of current paradigms and
daily routines (Maessen, 2019). We therefore developed a workshop format, containing a
set of interventions and tools to guide people to engage in exploring far away possible
futures and link these back to anticipating actions in the present.
Flourishing Societies Framework - DwD Workshop Peter Jones
How might we move or collective thinking and action beyond single-issue social action?
Does it make sense to build our urban worlds and future societies by winning one political issue at a time?
Can we design civic business models for our cities and society?
All social services, determinants of health, and economics are complex and interrelated. So why do we expect any political body or activist group to get it right? Only meaningfully diverse, multi-stakeholder groups can envision the variety of interests and outcomes in complex social systems. In February's Design with Dialogue Peter Jones workshops tools for co-creating civic design proposals.
A significant design challenge of our time is anticipating the relationships of multiple environmental and social problems as a complex system of nonlinear relationships. However, we cannot think about, model or discuss the relationships well, especially in the heat of discussion with deliberative groups and decision making processes. We need not only better engagement and dialogue processes for citizen deliberative problem solving, we require relevant tools.
With the OCADU Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group and with Strategic Foresight & Innovation students we designed a relevant framework from the common language of business model tools, adapted for civic decision models for flourishing cities and settlements.
The Flourishing Cities framework adapts a design tool for strongly sustainable business models as a visual organizer for engaging stakeholders in co-creating normative operational guidance for civic groups, community planners, and local governments. Flourishing can be understood as “to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience,” or as John Ehrenfeld states it:
“Flourishing is the possibility that human and other life will flourish on this planet forever.”
This visual model enables a participatory mapping of propositions, values, and preferences that might yield significantly better group decisions for sociocultural and ecological development and governance in any planning engagement.
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedba.docxtroutmanboris
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedback’, what does it mean for forms of organisation, aesthetics and practice?
如果我们要通过“反馈”来理解文化,这对组织、美学和实践的形式意味着什么?
Week 9: Feedback and Systems Wednesday, 13.03.2019
Through the application of mechanical and scientific models for the understanding of social and political life, cybernetic theory – in particular notions of feedback – informed the development of many cultural, artistic and political projects in the mid-late 20th century, yet its influence is still under-recognized, especially in contemporary techno-political debates. This session will address cybernetic genealogies of information theory and systems thinking to see how current ideas around ‘planetary computation’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ draw on much longer and more equivocal histories than is often recognised.
6.Hacking is seen as a paradigmatic form of innovation, but also of political resistance and of contemporary knowledge politics. Working through some examples, discuss how these might come together.
黑客行为被视为一种创新的典范形式,但也被视为一种政治阻力和当代知识政治。通过一些例子,讨论它们是如何组合在一起的。
Week 4: The Hacker Wednesday, 06.02.2019
As a figure of the culture industry, the hacker is both symbol of ultimate innovation, of a free- thinking high-skilled rebel, but also as the avatar of destruction and chaos. This lecture will survey some of the claims made around the figure of the hacker, in particular examine Mackenzie Wark's reading of the political economy of hacking as a general theory of the production of the new in 'A Hacker Manifesto'. We will also open up the concept of ‘hacking’ as an intervention into the nuts-and-bolts of a technological system to interventions on the very structures of cognition, as in Catherine Malabou’s concept of neuroplasticity, and a metaphorical cannibalism as post-colonial ‘culture hacking’.
7.The figure of the user has become increasingly important in contemporary culture, how has this come about and what effects does it have?
在当代文化中,用户的形象变得越来越重要,它是如何产生的,产生了什么影响?
Week 2: Users-Things-Machines Wednesday, 23.01.2019
Alongside the consumer, the figure of the user is one of the casts of the culture industry that is most incessantly modelled and pre-figured. As cultural processes are often interwoven with computational and networked digital media and as design might be said to provide if not a general theory of culture but a 'general practice' of entities, processes and events, this lecture traces some of the ways in which users, consumers and audiences have been theorised, created and invented. At the same time, the technologically and ecologically inspired shift in social theory from subjects to objects, from masses to networks, and from people to things means we need to re-visit some of our assumptions about the agents of cultural production, also viewing the production of culture in line with other shifts in social approaches to knowledge, technics and labour.
.
This document by Eelke Wielinga describes the FAN (Free Actor Network) approach and practical tools to promote effective networks where traditional planning is balanced with the energies, incentives and dreams of the members. Mr Wielinga was one of the speakers of the Systemic M&E webinar (Innovations in Measuring Impacts in Market and Financial Systems: rethinking the current paradigm). This webinar was organised by SEEP's MaFI in October 2012 and hosted in collaboration with USAID's Microlinks and FHI360. To know more about the FAN approach and Eelke's work go to www.toolsfornetworkers.nl
Introduction to Strategic Doing for Community DevelopmentEd Morrison
Strategic Doing developed at a very granular level: working on the complex challenges within neighborhoods and communities. This paper explores how this new approach for developing strategy can be used to strengthen communities.
Organisations are increasingly realising the power of networks to create the greatest impact for society. Working collaboratively with a network of partners can increase your reach, generate efficiencies and stimulate innovation.
Yet, approaches to working in networks vary widely and each approach has a unique set of associated challenges. In our latest Briefing Paper, Aleron brings together the insight of expert practitioners in the field to bring clarity to the complex area of network working in the social sector.
Organisations are increasingly realising the power of networks to create the greatest impact for society. Working collaboratively with a network of partners can increase your reach, generate efficiencies and stimulate innovation.
Yet, approaches to working in networks vary widely and each approach has a unique set of associated challenges. In our latest Briefing Paper, Aleron brings together the insight of expert practitioners in the field to bring clarity to the complex area of network working in the social sector.
A SOCIAL CAPITAL APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM AND INNOVATION: CASE S...indexPub
Despite being recognised as drivers of innovative development, Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) frequently confront resource limitations. Therefore, enhancing the ecosystem is contingent on the entrepreneurs’ social capital, which is crucial for the success of MSMEs. This study applies the social capital approach to analyse the entrepreneurial ecosystem enrichment and its impact on the innovation process of cosmetics MSMEs. The qualitative case study of six cosmetic manufacturing MSMEs explores that social capital is a multifaceted asset to MSMEs. Through an in-depth thematic analysis of three dimensions of social capital (structural, relational, and cognitive), this study states that the innovation process is supported by the synergistic transformation of one dimension of social capital into another. Entrepreneurs sharing the common norms, rules, and language enrich their cognitive as well as relational aspects of ecosystem. The study suggests that as network ties, trust, and norms collectively influence innovation in firms, hence, social capital needs to be studied with its contextualization in the ecosystem.
1CASE STUDY AND PROPOSAL REPORTPROBLEM SOLVING.docxaulasnilda
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CASE STUDY AND PROPOSAL REPORT
PROBLEM SOLVING CASE STUDY AND PROPOSAL REPORT
Organizational Analysis
24 October 2019
1Introduction3
1.1 Statement of the Problem3
2 Methodology4
3 Literature Review4
3.2 Risk Management framework5
3.3 Reputational risk5
3.4 Project Planning life cycle6
4. Response6
Methodology for Avoiding Employees Backlash6
Radical Structuralism as a Marketing Campaign Tool6
Proposed Risk Management Framework.7
When to do A Risk Assessment7
Risks Analysis and Evaluation8
How to Handle Risks8
Reporting and Communication8
Monitoring and Reporting9
Questions that May Be Asked in Future9
Prompts10
References11
1 Introduction
Social sustainability is an important factor to consider when starting up or designing a business since it considers safety concerns, corporate responsibility, and community involvement as key components. Several factors constitute social sustainability, including personal relationships, safety, health, the standard of living, freedom, community connectedness, equality, material affluence, achievements, environment and services, future security, and others. The concept does not focus only on short term wellbeing but considers factors such as diversity, understanding, equity, quality of life, opportunity, individual empowerment, and inclusion that are key to sustaining long term social wellbeing.
Sustainable development is a major standard for policymakers worldwide since there is a rising awareness to stop following the traditional paths for development. Sustainable development has three pillars, economic, environmental, and social factors working together, but social sustainability has been given little attention and implementation as other factors. Business and the community around the business must be in a good relationship; otherwise, social sustainability might not succeed (Haugsbakk 2007). Community engagement must be carried out to build the relationship, especially when the business or organization needs to make significant changes that affect the community, when the organization needs more information to base a business decision or when a change is likely to generate community outrage. 1.1 Statement of the Problem
The reaction of communities to extraction activities has become more delicate, leading to delays, cancellation of projects, and closure of mining activities in many countries. As a result, companies get losses due to stalled projects, opportunity costs due to planned projects and reconciliation processes as a result of community outrage. A mining company is utilizing public relations methods such as contributing to school initiatives and community actions such as charities, donations, public sporting events, and many others to build community relations. However, despite the use of public relations methods to build community relationships, members of the community still accuse the company of hypocrites in their intentions. Therefore, there is a need to determine why the comm ...
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Development Sector: A Conceptual Framework Shipra Sharma
The MSP paradigm emerged in response to the failure of both the structural (that over-emphasize the role of government in facilitating development process) and the neo-classical or neo-liberal theories of development (that negate the role of the government and regard free market economy as the key to economic development) to effectively address the complexities of development.
Importance of a sustainable values framework for organizations and project ma...Fundação Getúlio Vargas
IMPORTANCE OF A VALUES FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE AND SOCIALLY
RESPONSIBLE NEW WAYS OF WORKING (by Armando Kokitsu); ISO 26000; Another new trend that has been observed that reinforces what is been said here is the adoption of sustainability in project management.
Project Cycle and Causal Hypothesis _ Theory of Change.pptxGeorgeKabongah2
The project life cycle is the order of processes and phases used in delivering projects. It describes the high-level workflow of delivering a project and the steps you take to make things happen.
A vision for a model that marries the benefits of incubation space with a systemic view of resource allocation with a view to solving the chronic underfunding of early stage social ventures.
A description of the structure and the processes of a community of projects in the Food System. We explored the creation of a co-working space to house some of the projects.
A model, pioneered by Chris Cook, that aligns the interests of financiers with users and managers of an asset. One might think of this as a vision for a Collaborative Capital Structure!
On thestructureandprocessesofrevolution2.0 discussiondocumentSuresh Fernando
Considerations, learned both from experience and through the review of theoretical work, on the challenges and complexity of bringing different movements together 'across boundaries;
19. ‘Modularizing’ Projects: creating a collaborative culture in the social venture ecosystemPoint 3, identifies some dynamics that are specific to the ecosystem that comprises those that are interested in bringing about positive social change; social venture projects. Driving Open Collaboration Within Ecosystems The Development and Deployment of Open Collaboration Infrastructure and Processes The significance of open collaboration processes is a well studied phenomenon so I won’t provide any detail here. I will just highlight the following: Technology Infrastructure: An essential element in an open collaboration environment is the technology infrastructure that supports the collaborative activity. Hence, in developing an open collaboration process, there must be sensitivity to the technology infrastructure and processes that allow for scalable open collaboration. Engaging with the Broader Community: In bringing all of the above about, we will utilize principles of open collaboration. The information models will be open. This means that projects must get used to being open about their information. It also means that it becomes possible to crowdsource participation on all aspects of the project. We anticipate that when the technology platform is developed and attempts are made to make our process increasingly more visible, resources will become more available from the broader community. Developing A Commitment To Collaborate: Most important is that the groups that we work with are a part of a collaborative process, and therefore develop the skills and the processes that are necessary to actually collaborate. Entrepreneurs, by nature, tend to be self reliant and to have a strong belief in their particular perspective. Developing collaborative processes will, therefore, not necessarily be easy. An easy way to stimulate collaborative activity is by: Co-Generating Content. We believe that in working together to develop the Ecosystem Map and the documents necessary for funding, the group will learn to effectively work together. Shared Real Time Interaction Spaces: Furthermore, the creation of interaction spaces that allow group members to interact with each other, explore ideas together etc. should serve to stimulate a group dynamic. As the process unfolds, the specific tools and the processes that are necessary to make this work will become increasingly more apparent. Ecosystem Mapping and Modeling: principles underlying the information model I am arguing that an ecosystem view of the world has functional utility; that it is a view that supports the creation of infrastructure and processes that can bring about systemic change in the financing of early stage social ventures. The reason that this is so is that it provides a context for defining a system of relations between ecosystem members. For value to be derived from this system of relations, it becomes necessary to first formalize the system of relations; to define a paradigm that allows us to systematically establish relations in a way that can provide value to others. There are two ways that information models can be developed. The traditional method can be referred to as ‘top-down’ or hierarchical. The alternative method which can be understood as ‘bottom-up’ is represented by the ‘tagging’ paradigm. For our purposes, we will consider what is essential to the bottom up method to be the fact that it is the user community (the community for whom the information is most relevant, or that the information describes) that defines the information structure. That this is the method that is most appropriate in a networked world is well argued for by Clay Shirky. It is not necessary to address the nuances of the Shirky’s argument, but in my view, his argument applies only in the case where the function of the information model is to support information search and retrieval. If, as is the case with the mapping of ecosystems, what is necessary is to make precise the relation between objects in your domain of inquiry then a hierarchical approach is necessary. Given this, OpenKollab is developing a hybrid approach to information modeling that will involve the initial positing of a meta-data set that we anticipate will serve to establish relations between projects that can give rise to collaborative opportunities. We will gather this initial data while simultaneously working with projects that have self identified as being interested in collaborating with each other. In self identifying that they want to work with each other, it doesn’t follow that projects have any awareness of what meta-data describes these relations. Whether we can abstract specific meta-data from these self identified relations remains to be seen and is a work in progress. Ecosystem Mapping and Modeling: example of an information model Although this initiative remains a work in progress, we can describe the information model as it currently stands. The model consists of the following: Aligning Missions and Goals: Projects provide information on what their mission and goals are. The idea is to get projects to make this as precise as possible. In many cases early stage projects will not have developed this information with precision and will need support in doing so. Collaborative Relationships: Those relationships that have been identified by members of an ecosystem as giving rise to the possibility of collaboration. Hence, projects identify other projects that they see a potential fit with. If there is a mutual recognition that the possibility for collaboration exists, then dialogue should ensue. Project Summaries: We have standardized an input structure to gather information on projects. This includes; business model, target markets, marketing strategy, financial models etc. In establishing a defined structure for the information model, we can standardize the way that projects both think about their activity and the way that they represent themselves. This should make it easier to identify potential matches. On The Modularity Of Projects In Early Social Venture Stage Ecosystems Another way to think about our approach is to get projects to think about their role in their ecosystem as being modular; to realize as they shape their enterprises that they are a part of a system of relations. The way that this is accomplished is by getting projects to participate in the formation of the information models. This forces the projects to think about their initiatives in this way; to look at their activity from a third party perspective. There are two specific reasons why this model is appropriate when thinking about early stage social ventures. The Potential For Mission Alignment: In contrast to organizations whose primary focus is maximizing their own profits, social venture organizations, at least in principle, should be driven by larger objectives; solving climate change for example. This allows those that have aligned missions to explore potential areas of synergy, and to develop ways in which they can collaborate. Genesis Stage of Development: Furthermore, projects that are early stage, by definition, have less defined processes, less formal organizational structures, are more open to exploring different opportunities etc. In short, early stage social ventures can be flexible in their approach, and should be open to opportunities that increase the possibility of their success. The combination of these two factors makes it clear that matching social venture projects that are a part of an ecosystem can improve their prospects for success. An ecosystem view of project relationships, therefore, provides the information structure that, in conjunction with the right technology infrastructure and open collaboration processes, will serve to accelerate collaboration between early stage social venture projects. ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATION AND RISK MITIGATION FOR INVESTORS Now that we have a better understanding of what it means to collaborate within an ecosystem and the factors that will lead to increased collaboration amongst social venture projects, we can examine how ecosystem collaboration mitigates financial risk for investors. The risk for investors is tied directly to the prospect of the failure of the project. Hence, this risk can be offset in two specific ways; increasing the probability of success of the specific projects and decreasing the probability of failure of projects. Increasing the Probability of Success of Projects Working within a collaborative environment will increase the probability of the success of social ventures for the following reasons: Scale: In grouping projects together, we create scale (more people, ideas, resources etc.). Projects have access to each other’s networks, can bid for projects together, can attend meetings together, can share certain costs (trade shows, for example) etc. Modularity: In viewing ones enterprise as a part of a system of relations, one can direct ones activities in a way that is aligned with ones ecosystem partners. This provides increased opportunity for sales, increased partnership opportunities etc. Social cohesion: we hope that some of what works in the Grameen Peer Lending model, works in this context as well. In support of this idea, we will be developing non-binding collaboration agreements that formalize the commitments between groups. Although we don’t expect these agreements to be binding, we do expect that commitments that are made openly will bring social forces to bear that will result in those that one is collaborating being more likely to provide support. Offsets technology risk: A constant challenge for investors is to be able to assess the value of technology and processes that have not already garnered market acceptance. In getting peers to use your technology, processes etc., (as ecosystem collaborators) the functional utility of the technology is validated by people that understand the technology. Increased Product Validation: in fitting your technology or process into a value chain of collaborators, you will solve problems and enhance the product thereby making it more market worthy. Increased Network/Channel Capacity: In working collaboratively with others, you will build networks and contacts that will open up other market opportunities. Decreasing the Probability of Failure of Projects An important feature of this model is the fact that in working collaboratively with others, one can make drastic changes in ones business model, technology etc. while remaining a part of a collaborative process that supports this transition. To understand this idea better, consider the circumstances in which early stage entrepreneurs function when operating in isolation. If there is a fundamental problem with their project that places the project at risk and where failure is imminent, there is little that one can do other than attempt to raise further capital or sell the business, if possible. In contrast, if the project is a part of an Ecosystem Collaboration, problems associated with the project might be identified at an earlier stage (offsetting the risk of ‘entpreneur myopia’, so to speak). Strategies can be collaboratively developed that might even result in completely changing project structures. One can, for example, work with partners with a view to selling ones project to a partner. By operating more openly and in a more accountable fashion, the chance of failure is reduced. CONCLUSION In summary, I have argued that an ecosystem view of the relationship between projects will support increased collaborative activity amongst early stage social ventures. In doing so, it will increase collaboration, which has positive social implications, and will reduce risk for financial investors in seed stage social ventures. In reducing risk for investors, we will address a systemic constraint that prevents the flow of financial capital into projects that are primarily focused on delivering social value. Hence in solving this problem, we will be contributing substantially to the welfare of the human species!