WHAT IS SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP?
Everything we do is about magnifying the potential & impact of our clients and partners. And we are convinced that a Systems Leadership practice is the answer.
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Systems Leadership is a set of skills, tools and capabilities that can be used to catalyze, enable and support the process of impactful systems-level transformation. These are the 3 key domains of expertise necessary.
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While it takes effort to pull off, Systems Leadership is one of very few approaches we've seen that helps pave a Steady path to Success & the only one that actually Sticks.
Complex Systems Insights
Finding Value requires... Deep and broad understanding of the complexities of the systems shaping challenges.
Coalition of Stakeholders
Extracting Value requires... Approaches for building stakeholder coalitions, developing allignment, coordinating and mobilizing actions.
Collaborative Leadership
Deploying Value requires... Enabling leadership that drives learning, builds trust and empowers stakeholders to progress to common commitment.
Complex Problems Require A Different Approach
The Problem
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Projects are all complex today, with multiple interests & desired outcomes, uneven priorities and an invetable set of inter-dependent stakeholders.
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Solutions deployment is stuck and innovation is just not diffusing at the pace we need.
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Good solutions but “bad” problems, complicated by its own external system.
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The array of solutions offered in the marketplace is more confusing than ever, in part due to closed innovation and solution delivery systems.
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Organizations deeply siloed as we develop people with deep expertise but narrow focus. Even as the value offered by individual ecosystem players overlap, the urge to protect their silo is stronger than ever.
The Solution
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We double down on building shared systems visions & shared priorities in order to converge the solution formulation process and deliver outcomes beneficial to the system.
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We make transparent stakeholder inter-dependancies and interactions to strengthen collaborative problem resolution.
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We tap on systems knowledge to ensure solutions address the problem as well as the system context.
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We deploy practical measures that clarify solution performance, systems fit, and deployment readiness.
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We play the role of Systems Leaders to converge deep expertise towards business performance, providing the connections to drive collaboration with niche specializations.