Learn how to
navigate complexity
Applying System Mapping
to visualize and understand
complex systems
We are system innovators combining the powers of systems thinking and design. We empower people and organizations to uncover, structure and visualize the complexity around them.
Our Services
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Trainings
Join our interactive trainings for a guided journey through the mapping process, empowering you to create impactful System Maps.
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Consulting
We help you, your team, and your stakeholders develop System Maps to untangle complex challenges and build shared insights.
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Learning Materials
We develop user-friendly tools and templates to enhance your team's System Mapping skills and integrate them seamlessly into your projects
Our Clients
Ready to embrace complexity?
Today's challenges are bigger and more complex than ever before. In an interconnected world with fundamental shifts in our ecological, social, economic, and political landscapes we can’t develop solutions in isolated and linear approaches.
Traditional ways of problem-solving do not account for the complexity. When we only see part of the picture, lack shared understanding, or focus on short-term fixes, we fail to achieve the desired impact or even make things worse.
It’s time for a new thinking – for real impact and sustainable change.
“Unless we adopt a systems approach, unless we employ systems thinking, we will fail to understand the world we are living in.”
System Mapping - A visual language to make complexity tangible
With the power of its visual language, System Mapping helps us to take a holistic perspective, make sense of complexity, and identify leverage opportunities for sustainable change.
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Immerse into the system
System Mapping makes complexity more tangible by visualizing current dynamics in the system and making them explicit.
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Create shared understanding
System Mapping supports you in engaging stakeholders and developing a shared understanding.
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Anticipate systemic impacts
System Mapping helps to anticipate future scenarios and account for unintended consequences.
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Find leverage for positive chance
System Mapping empowers you to identify opportunity areas. These are your starting points to develop ideas with systemic impact.
A Toolkit to navigate complexity
The System Mapping Toolkit helps you to make sense of complex challenges. The guided process visualizes complexity and makes your challenges more approachable.
The Toolkit is free and collaborative and it is designed for everyone who works with and within complex systems. The toolkit guides you through the most important steps of framing, mapping and reflecting on your complex challenge.
Our Work
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How can we improve openness in the German innovation system?
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What is driving land-use change and deforestation in Paraguay?
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How do various energy initiatives play together in Germany?
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How can we foster adequate urban housing in Kenya?
