Diverse Contexts

Context

Every con­text is unique. We are all embed­ded in a unique insti­tu­tion­al dynam­ic, a social fab­ric which con­strains or enables us to engage in pur­pose­ful action to bring about pos­it­ive social change. Although it is true that we bring a strong his­tory of exper­i­ence of sys­tem­ic inquiry to our part­ner­ship with you, Peri­peteia does not fol­low a trav­elled ration­al­ity, or rep­lic­ate insti­tu­tion­al blue­prints to social or sys­tem­ic innov­a­tion, with les­sons applied, dis­tilled from else­where. We give emphas­is to the par­tic­u­lar, not the gen­er­al, where we ensure that the polit­ic­al, rela­tion­al and sub­stant­ive will assert itself over the tech­nic­al, form­al and object­ive.

Col­lab­or­at­ive and Inclus­ive Gov­ernance provides a nov­el path­way through which gov­ern­ments can engage with a wealth of sys­tem­ic social and envir­on­ment­al issues, enacted through a fab­ric of stake­hold­ers in the pub­lic and private sphere of life.

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Governments

Col­lab­or­at­ive and Inclus­ive Gov­ernance provides a nov­el path­way through which gov­ern­ments can engage with a wealth of sys­tem­ic social and envir­on­ment­al issues, enacted through a fab­ric of stake­hold­ers in the pub­lic and private sphere of life. Col­lab­or­at­ive and Inclus­ive Gov­ernance acts also as cata­lyst for engaged cit­izen­ship, much needed to face sys­tem­ic issues. Wheth­er ful­filling our solid­ar­ity by provid­ing people, escap­ing from con­flict and oppres­sion a new home and life, the need for gradu­al re-con­fig­ur­ing eco­nom­ic and social insti­tu­tions, required to sub­stan­tially reduce our envir­on­ment­al foot­print and trans­ition towards health pre­ser­va­tion as opposed to health care, or facil­it­at­ing access to innov­at­ive, high qual­ity edu­ca­tion to all lay­ers of our soci­ety, free­ing up untapped, cre­at­ive and pro­duct­ive capa­city, facil­it­ate sec­tori­al trans­ition and strength­en­ing of our social secur­ity. These are a few, among a rich pleth­ora of inter­con­nec­ted issues, which demands col­lab­or­at­ive and inclus­ive policy for­mu­la­tion and imple­ment­a­tion, with nov­el ways of com­mu­nic­a­tion, organ­iz­a­tion and struc­tur­a­tion required, between gov­ern­ments and its cit­izens, between region­al and nation­al author­it­ies, the profit and none-profit sec­tor.

Our sys­tem­ic inquiry circle enriches your capa­city for:

  • Mak­ing sense of inter­de­pend­ent, sys­tem­ic issues
  • Identi­fy­ing exist­ing struc­tur­al, insti­tu­tion­al con­fig­ur­a­tions
  • Ana­lyz­ing cur­rent struc­tur­al and insti­tu­tion­al dynam­ics caus­ing social, envir­on­ment­al unin­ten­ded con­sequences
  • Com­munity prac­tice build­ing for policy dia­logue
  • Pro­spect­ing on insti­tu­tion­al feas­ib­il­ity and social viab­il­ity
  • Co-cre­ate insti­tu­tion­al hypo­theses
  • Col­lab­or­at­ive insti­tu­tion­al mod­el­ling
  • Adapt­ive, decent­ral­ized and iter­at­ive imple­ment­a­tion
  • Con­tinu­ous improve­ment and sus­tained learn­ing

These are just some aspects of our engage­ments with gov­ern­ments. We are happy to have a more in-depth dia­logue with you, about your spe­cif­ic chal­lenges and poten­tial path­ways for our col­lab­or­a­tion.

Upward and down­ward account­ab­il­ity, with rise of evid­ence, per­form­ance-based meas­ures, puts increas­ing pres­sure on NGOs, oper­at­ing in com­plex and more unstable envir­on­ments, while the same time being con­fron­ted with …

NGOs

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NGOs

Upward and down­ward account­ab­il­ity, with rise of evid­ence, per­form­ance-based meas­ures, puts increas­ing pres­sure on NGOs, oper­at­ing in com­plex and more unstable envir­on­ments, while the same time being con­fron­ted with a densely pop­u­lated fund­ing space and calls from donors for intra-inter sec­tor­al cooper­a­tion. Although shifts from enact­ment of tra­di­tion­al pro­ject cycles and log frames towards more adapt­ive man­age­ment of pro­jects remain rather mod­est, the gradu­al increase in pres­sure to provide broad as well as in depth ex-ante impact assess­ments and ex-post com­pre­hens­ive eval­u­ations is well pro­nounce. Part­ner­ing with a wealth of new private and pub­lic sec­tor act­ors, emerges as key require­ments placed on NGOs by many donors, which aim for more sys­tem­ic or spill-over effects of pro­jects or pro­grams e.g. health, edu­ca­tion and eco­nomy, as opposed to focus on isol­ated, but appar­ently inter­re­lated fields. Value for fund­ing, under­pinned by, as rig­or­ous per­ceived sci­entif­ic meth­ods, such as ran­dom­ized con­trol tri­als (RCT) is one, under­ly­ing paradigm shift, which is often in stark con­trast to the val­ues and norms held by NGOs, which rather see the intan­gible gains and val­ues real­ised by their actions, and the slow and evol­u­tion­ary change in loc­al insti­tu­tions required for sys­tem­ic change.

Our sys­tem­ic inquiry circle enriches your capa­city for:

  • Com­pli­ment­ary sens­ing of inter­re­la­tion­ships, mul­tiple- con­trast­ing per­spect­ives and unequal power rela­tions through­out the pro­ject cycle
  • Strength­en­ing of par­ti­cip­at­ory based pro­jects through sys­tem­ic inquiry, sur­fa­cing mul­tiple-con­trast­ing per­spect­ives and unequal power rela­tions
  • Apply­ing sys­tems think­ing meth­od­o­lo­gies to enact adapt­ive man­age­ment
  • Sys­tem­ic, crit­ic­al eval­u­ation and mon­it­or­ing of pro­jects as part of con­tinu­ous improve­ment and intra-inter­or­gan­isa­tion­al learn­ing cycles
  • Sur­fa­cing of broad­er poten­tial unin­ten­ded con­sequences and poten­tial pull-through and pos­it­ive spill-over effects via pro­jects or long-term pro­grams
  • Ana­lys­ing exist­ing insti­tu­tion­al con­fig­ur­a­tions for informed decision for new and sus­tained cooper­at­ive inter-organ­isa­tion rela­tion­ships
  • Co-cre­ation, design of nov­el and resi­li­ent struc­tures for cooper­at­ive inter-organ­isa­tion­al rela­tion­ships
  • Design­ing and man­age­ment of com­munity of sys­tems prac­tice to pre­to­type social and envir­on­ment­al pro­jects

These are just some aspects of our engage­ments with NGOs. We are happy to have a more in-depth dia­logue with you, about your spe­cif­ic chal­lenges and poten­tial path­ways for our col­lab­or­a­tion.

Uni­ver­sit­ies and Con­tinu­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­viders play a key role with­in the Sus­tain­ble Devel­op­ment Goals. Under­stand­ing of inder­de­p­dence and inter­re­la­tion­ships is as import­ant as the …

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Corporations

Uni­ver­sit­ies and Con­tinu­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­viders play a key role with­in the Sus­tain­ble Devel­op­ment Goals. Under­stand­ing of inder­de­p­dence and inter­re­la­tion­ships is as import­ant as the capa­city to devel­op and imple­ment togeth­er strategies for sys­tem­ic change. We see a strong interest from pro­gress­ive uni­ver­sit­ies and con­tinu­ous edu­ca­tion pro­viders to integ­rate sys­tems think­ing in their cur­riculum, or as an innov­at­ive elect­ive to their estab­lished and new pro­grams. Sys­tems think­ing has already passed the bound­ar­ies of the engin­eer­ing or psy­cho­logy dis­cip­line, thanks to the plur­al­ism of vari­ous meth­od­o­lo­gies, and it is increas­ingly recog­nized as invalu­able to the social sci­ence and human­it­ies. Espe­cially pro­grams which place equal emphas­is on the prac­tice of the field of study such as NGO Man­age­ment, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment, Human­it­ari­an Relief or Envir­on­ment­al Man­age­ment, just to name a few, not only see sys­tems think­ing as import­ant, but the prac­tic­al and con­tex­tu­al­ised applic­a­tion of sys­tems think­ing for stra­tegic action is judged being a crit­ic­al capa­city for cur­rent or aspir­ing man­agers in vari­ous fields of pro­fes­sion­al prac­tice.

We act as part­ner to Uni­ver­sit­ies and Con­tinu­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­viders, who either wish to integ­rate applied sys­tems think­ing as over­lay to their exist­ing pro­grams, or as fully ded­ic­ated innov­at­ive mod­ule in their exist­ing or new, exper­i­ment­al pro­grams. Depend­ent on the degree of integ­ra­tion and dur­a­tion of the pro­gram, the vari­ous philo­soph­ic­al roots under­ly­ing the vari­ous sys­tems meth­od­o­lo­gies will be explored, with sound under­stand­ing of sys­tems the­ory and con­tex­tu­al­ised sys­tems prac­tice. Spe­cial emphas­is is giv­en to the prac­tice, the vari­ous indi­vidu­al con­texts, which requires strategy devel­op­ment for sys­tem­ic change, but equally import­ant col­lab­or­at­ive imple­ment­a­tion and con­tinu­ous improve­ments. The capa­city for sys­tems think­ing and action is thus developed as indi­vidu­al and col­lect­ive capa­city, with the neces­sary skills to cre­ate and man­age cooper­at­ive intra-inter­or­gan­iz­a­tion­al rela­tion­ships.

Nation­al and Multi-Nation­al Enter­prises play an increas­ingly import­ant role in efforts to improve the well-being of our soci­ety and our plan­ets.

Corporations

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Corporations

Nation­al and Multi-Nation­al Enter­prises play an increas­ingly import­ant role in efforts to improve the well-being of our soci­ety and our plan­et. Many enter­prises have become to under­stand their role as cor­por­ate cit­izens and have there­fore estab­lished found­a­tions or developed part­ner­ships with Donors and NGOs to enact their social respons­ib­il­ity. Although, some have a long track record of bal­an­cing their cor­por­ate agenda with their social mis­sion, most enter­prises are rel­at­ively new in their roles as devel­op­ment act­ors, oper­at­ing very much in less-famil­i­ar ter­rit­ory, while con­trib­ut­ing to sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals. These places great import­ance on the para­mount task of mutu­al learn­ing. On the one hand, learn­ing about sys­tem­ic issues, learn­ing togeth­er with, and about their bene­fi­ciar­ies, and with devel­op­ment part­ners to under­stand deep­er and wide-ran­ging causes of social or envir­on­ment­al chal­lenges. On the oth­er hand, it demands learn­ing togeth­er with donors and gov­ern­ments, mak­ing sense of new insti­tu­tion­al con­fig­ur­a­tions, and to nego­ti­ate inter-sec­tor­al part­ner­ship for effect­ive coordin­a­tion and due pro­cess.

Our sys­tem­ic inquiry circle enriches your capa­city for:

  • Sens­ing inter­re­la­tion­ships and inter­de­pend­ence between act­ors and issues in the sphere of social devel­op­ment and envir­on­ment­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity
  • Sens­ing and map­ping of mul­tiple-con­trast­ing per­spect­ives on sys­tem­ic issues, com­pet­ing goals, norm and interests
  • Sur­fa­cing and map­ping unequal power rela­tions and insti­tu­tion­al con­tra­dic­tions in vari­ous pro­ject con­texts
  • Sur­fa­cing of broad­er poten­tial unin­ten­ded con­sequences and poten­tial pull-through, pos­it­ive spill-over effects via pro­jects or long-term pro­grams
  • Sys­tem­ic inquiry, Co-Inquiry in pro­ject plan­ning, design, imple­ment­a­tion and eval­u­ation
  • Design­ing and man­age­ment of com­munity of sys­tems prac­tice to pre­to­type social and envir­on­ment­al pro­jects
  • Ana­lys­ing exist­ing insti­tu­tion­al con­fig­ur­a­tions for informed decision for new and sus­tained cooper­at­ive inter-organ­isa­tion rela­tion­ships
  • Co-cre­ation, design of nov­el and resi­li­ent struc­tures for cooper­at­ive inter-organ­isa­tion­al rela­tion­ships
  • Insti­tu­tion­al­ise sys­tems think and prac­tice as sus­tained learn­ing

These are just some aspects of our engage­ments with cor­por­a­tions. We are happy to have a more in-depth dia­logue with you, about your spe­cif­ic chal­lenges and poten­tial path­ways for our col­lab­or­a­tion.

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