| dc.description.abstract | In the Amazon Region, systemic intervenors wrestle with massive forces of societal complexity that threaten the world’s largest tropical forest - a meta-crisis related to societal management and leadership. On this background and through the lens of Systems Oriented Design (SOD), this thesis studied how Earth Innovation Institute (EII) can enhance its strategic approach to systemic transformation. The study followed a Research by design methodology. The thesis makes three contributions.
Firstly, it identifies gaps in affiliations to management and leadership for the two target audiences, SOD and EII. Both were found to lack management methodologies for measurement, evaluation and reporting designed for complex implementations and operations. However, leading practices can help close the gap. Also, a closer affiliation with fields such as systemic and quantum leadership, the thesis found, could give SOD a strategic edge that would be appealing to managers and can help SOD overcome barriers to implementation in organisations faced with complexity and rapid change. In co-creation, the thesis recommends that EII adds the dimension of participants’ inner drivers and self-leadership and connects facilitation to local cultures and indigenous sensing and rituals. Thereby, an axis of leadership emerges, connecting people’s inner drivers to collective intent, direction and desired futures.
Secondly, EII can improve co-creation frameworks and their effectiveness by further developing SOD facilitation and adding a participatory design front end. Such improvements could potentially broaden the scope of fundraising for multistakeholder processes.
Thirdly, the thesis connects systemic interventions in the Amazon to the field of Systems Oriented Design. Embedding SOD practices, EII can develop new language to enrich communications and support fundraising. A measurement methodology can be developed with lessons learned, portfolios of interventions and patterns, and pragmatic analysis of system dynamics can be combined with the creative practice of gigamapping.
Finally, the thesis shares a direction for EII to do the testing and experimentation pending from the study to add resilience and effectiveness to its adaptive approach. | en_US |
