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Page 1: Using systems thinking  to accelerate change

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Using systems thinking to accelerate change

Ruth Rominger Garfield FoundationPalo Alto, July 17, 2013

Progress

Designing and EvolvingCollaborative Networks

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Define the System

Identify Success

Strategies

Actions

Infrastructure, Tools

Co-create a shared understanding of the system

Set common goal, direction, principles

Collaborate to align interventions

Support accelerating success

Assess, Capacities, Decisions, Learn,

Taxonomy of a Systems Approach

Garfield Foundation

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Systems Understanding Network Design

Chaos TheoryComplexity

Computer Systems

Social Networks

Collaborative Action Networks

Organizations as Systems

Ecosystems

Learning Organizations

Earth Systems

Learning/Knowledge Networks

Garfield Foundation

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Designing a Network for System Change

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Increase Energy

EfficiencyRetire Existing

Dirty Coal

Mapping the Midwest Energy System Together Creating a shared understanding, audacious goal, and an insight…

Stop New Dirty Coal

Increase Clean Energy Generation

80% CO2 Reduction By 2030

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Clean Up Coal

Increase Energy Efficiency

Increase Clean Energy

Stop New Dirty Coal

Self-organized

Working Groupsto develop aligned

strategies

Shared Insight! Four leverage points need coordinated intervention

in order to shift the energy system

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Inspiring the Re-Amp Network structure

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Steering Committee

CommunicationCommons

Media Center

Learning & Progress

Shared Assets

Strategic Action Fund

Support Action Learning

Knowledge Management

Learning & Progress

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Stability just enough, need flexibility, randomness

Connectivitymany loops, open, transparent

Diversity Distributed stronger, more creative together

Information Flow allows for emergence

Power Differentials control is in the way of change

Minimum Specs no more than absolutely necessary

Measurement of patterns and emergence

Principles of Network Infrastructure Design

Complex, fast-changing systems need adaptive structures that support rapid peer

learning

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Guiding Principles

Democratic Governance

Shared Story

Working Groups

Communications

Action Learning

Assessing Progress

Sharing Resources

Essential Characteristics for Success

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