A Systems Approach to Strategy: How Strategic Mapping Enhances Strategic Planning

In an era of rapid change and interconnected challenges, strategy can no longer be a once-a-year exercise.

This article explores how strategic mapping complements strategic planning to create living, adaptive strategies that evolve with shifting realities.

Learn how a systems lens enables organizations to align diverse stakeholders, prioritize smartly, and deliver lasting impact.

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We Can Work Together Even Across Deep Differences

Drawing on over thirty years of global experience, Adam Kahane challenges the myth of harmonious teamwork and offers a revolutionary approach that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation.

Discover how to work with people you don't agree with or like or trust in “Collaborating with the Enemy”.

Engaging Smallholder Farmers in Global Food Supply Chains

Find out more about the Sunrise, a project inspired by the Sustainable Food Lab and result of a collaboration between Oxfam and Unilever.

The Bandung Scenarios: possible futures of energy in Indonesia

Explore how Reos Partners used transformative scenarios to help a multi-stakeholder group shape possible futures of energy in Indonesia.

Building resilient children: “tooth-brushing for the mind”

To bounce back from the pressures, stresses, and even traumas of their lives, children need to be resilient. Read about our approach to this challenge.

Addressing violence against women and their children in Australia

This process significantly informed the Second Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022.

Seeing the South African Food System through the Lens of Power

Learn about an initiative emerging from the Southern Africa Food Lab that seeks to create new ways for small-scale farmers to participate meaningfully in the economy.

The future of Brazilian civil society

Discover how scenarios for the future of Brazilian society were incorporated into strategic planning processes, and led to new partnerships.