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Our Approach
The SIE CoLab engages with client partners through a Co-Design & Co-Create relationship driven by an integrative, systems approach that links technical innovations with a research-based, theory-to-practice, adaptive problem-solving model.
Our Model
Transformational Systems Change unfolds over Five Phases
based on the integration and synergies of Four Conditions.
Exploratory Phase
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Identify Point of Intervention
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Commit to CoDesign & Co-Create Partnership
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Embrace Transformation Mindset
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Develop Common Purpose Focused Through an Ambitious Yet Actionable Design Challenge
Conceivability Phase
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Ideate; Conceive What’s Possible
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​Establish EARLI Council
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Determine Feasibility, Viability, & Desirability
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Map Stakeholders & Resources Required to Achieve Success
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Articulate Theory of Change
SIE Readiness Phase
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​Gain Insights into the Value, Urgency, & Framework of SIE
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​Become Proficient with SIE CoLab’s Transformational Systems Change Model
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Establish SIE Teams & Identify Transformational Systems Change Connectors & Guides
SIE Blueprint Phase
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Develop an Adaptive, Regenerative, & Distributive Social Impact Model to Systemically Address “Point of Intervention” Challenge(s)
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​Test, Iterate, Refine
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​Develop Metrics to Measure Impact & Progress Towards Transformational Change
Transformation Phase
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Lead Adaptive, Regenerative, & Distributive Impact Model
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Co-Lead Organizational and System-Wide Transformation
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Leverage Networks & SIE Ecosystems to Facilitate System-Wide Implementation & Scaling Through Diffusion, Adoption, & Adaptation
The Four Conditions
Most approaches to systems change, while being presented as “disruptive,” “renewing,” and “systemic” processes, are actually based on relatively siloed and dated mental models. They tend to promote incremental change within the sclerotic (rigid, non-adaptive) boundaries of existing systems’ established and persistent designs, essentially perpetuating—even reinforcing—the status quo.
The SIE CoLab’s theoretical foundation, the Adaptive SIE Framework for Transformational Systems Change, offers the potential to transcend these limitations by:
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bridging longstanding confines at the individual, organizational, disciplinary, sector, and systems levels;
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transforming mental models; and
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promoting convergence, synergy, and adaptation among four essential Conditions (see below).
The SIE CoLab’s theoretical construct hypothesizes that the process of transformation within social systems at all levels of scale is dependent upon the dynamic interplay among these Four Conditions and guides the development of our integrative transformational systems change practice model, tools, and training.
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Adaptive Leadership & Maximizing / Accelerating Human Potential
Adaptive, Systems, & Change Leadership
Community Engagement & Democratization
Empowerment / Developing, Accelerating, & Connecting Human Potential & Capacity
Changemaker Archetypes & Points of Entry
Understanding & Transforming Mental Models
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System-Wide Innovation & Collaboration
Innovation & Impact Across the Sectors
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Collective Impact
SIE Ecosystems
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Intercultural, Transdisciplinary,
Human-Centered Lens & Methodology
Lens of Empathy
Problem-Centered
(Emphasis on Understanding the Problem)
Points of Intervention Into The System
Human-Centered & Adaptive Design for Social Innovation
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Scaling, Connecting, & Sustaining Impact
Hybrid High-Impact Organizations
Changing the Flow of Money
Measuring Impact
Globally-Networked SIE Ecosystems
Regenerative & Distributive Impact Economy
The Seven Cs for Transformational Systems Change
provide client-partners with a roadmap to link technical innovations with adaptive problem-solving “capabilities” and, through synergy among the Four Conditions, create an environment ripe for the emergence of something fundamentally new and fundamentally better. The Seven Cs equip individuals, organizations, and communities/networks with the resources, tools, practices, mindsets, and knowledge needed to innovate, adapt, and thrive in a complex and ever-changing world.
Change Model
Culture
Changemakers
Common Purpose
Cultivation
Compounding
Continuous Learning
Transformational Systems Change