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Systems are highly relational and made up of people and the interactions and connections between them. To create change in a system we need to understand how relationships play out; where there are strengths to build on or where there is friction to work through. As well as nurturing the new relationships and connections that are needed for change in system to happen.

Questions to consider asking:

Current: Understand people and relationships within the system. How they relate to one another, make decisions, and work together.

  • Who (people, organisations, networks) is currently involved in the part of the system you are looking at?
  • How would you describe the relationships that exist? Who is holding the influence?
  • Where are some of the informal relationships that hold influence that we should be leveraging?

Questions to consider asking:

Future: Reimagine how people, organisations and networks work with one another in more fluid, networked and cooperative ways to achieve a change in the system.

  • What relationships need to exist to support your new vision/ purpose to emerge?
  • How do these feel different? How are people, organisations working differently?
  • What are our ideas for supporting new relationships to emerge?
  • What ideas or experiments necessary for system change, related to relationships could you test out? And what would we be seeking to learn or observe as a result? > Use the Portfolio of experiments and Innovation process tools
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Tools for this stage

Relationship mapping

Relationship mapping

Map the various actors and the relationships between them
Portfolio of experiments - Relationships

Portfolio of experiments - Relationships

Interventions or experiments for system change, related to relationships

Other resources

Pando

Pando

Visualize the organizations and relationships within a system
Mobilising and movements

Mobilising and movements

Test out an idea, intervention that is part of your portfolio of experiments
Strategy and Innovation methods

Strategy and Innovation methods

Test out an idea, intervention that is part of your portfolio of experiments