System Innovation
on Purpose

A framework for working with purpose in complex systems.

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This essay is about the role that purpose plays in orchestrating complex systems and how system innovators can create a new system around a new sense of purpose.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. On Purpose

  3. Reframing Purpose

  4. Step One - When is a system open to a shift in purpose?

  5. Step Two - Finding A Purpose:
    Directive and Emergent models

  6. Step Three - On The Path to Purpose:
    Learn, Imagine, Explore, Excavate

  7. Conclusion

  8. References & Additional Resources

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