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Can we say anything new about innovation? That was one comment in our most recent survey. Maybe there’s nothing new to be said, but there better be something new to be done.
Lead in Complexity
Adaptive Action supports the work of individuals and teams, but it also informs strategic action for business, industry, and government. Brenda Fake leads a team of HSD Associates who provide organizational services through Human Systems Dynamics Consulting. She likes to say that her favorite clients are the “desperate ones.” Adaptive Action opens options for action when nothing else seems to work.
Manage Strategic Change
“Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.”
— Suzy Ross
Health CarePlan in Uncertainty
The Landscape Diagram uses agreement and certainty as measures which create a landscape of different zones of system stability; HSD suggests ways we can shift the stability if we want to change how the system behaves.
Build Adaptive Capacity
As I watered my plants today, I marveled again at their regenerative power. All they need is dirt, water, and sun, and they get bigger and healthier over time. Some of them don’t even need dirt, but that is a different story. Even the orchid, who holds back for months, surprises with blossoms when I least expect it.
Finite and Infinite Games inform your decision making as you consider the long- and short-term implications of decisions and actions. In complex systems, it is crucial that you know whether you are making a decision, finding a solution, or taking action in a short-term, win-lose Finite Game, or if your actions and decisions are part of the longer-term, more sustainable Infinite Game.