Strategic Intent

Creating Change

Over the years, we’ve seen that successful change in organisations can be an elusive prize, and the commitment and stamina required to see it through is often underestimated.

When re-engineering was the favoured change methodology, there was hope that organisational change could be completely process-driven and that those involved and impacted by that change would simply recognise the benefits of the re-engineered solution and work within it.

However, our experience has shown us that while process has its place in creating change, it isn’t the whole picture.

Large Group Interventions for Whole System Change

When an organisation, community group or team needs to integrate a diversity of perspectives and opinions to move forward, models of large group interventions are very helpful.

Large group interventions are planning meetings with a twist. They involve getting the “whole system” represented in the room; discovering common ground by enhancing an understanding of each other; focusing on the desired future and moving to agreed actions. One of the best things about this approach is that it happens very quickly—in 16 hours or less—depending upon your situation.

Strategic Intent is experienced in Future Search, Real-Time Strategic Change, Appreciative Inquiry, and Open Space Technology and we use the principles of these approaches, tailored to your specific situation, to help you create successful outcomes.

Strategic Conversations

We’ve discovered that ‘nobody talks to one another anymore!’

Whenever we work with an organisation, we see a plethora of meetings and literally hundreds of emails bouncing from computer to computer, but what is missing is the richness and depth of a real conversation.

Strategic Conversations brings you back to the art and practice of conversation. The backdrop for this practice is a complex problem that your team or organisation is grappling with.

Such problems take three forms, according to Adam Kahane, author of Solving Tough Problems.

‘A problem has high dynamic complexity if the cause and effect are far apart in time and space. A problem has high generative complexity if the future is unfamiliar or unpredictable. And, a problem has high social complexity if the people involved look at things very differently.’