"Look before, or you'll find yourself behind" - Benjamin Franklin

Interactive Planning

None of our problems exist in isolation, not the economic problems, not the environmental, social or political. They exist as an inter-connected system of problems, a mess.

The Interactive Planning process is a highly effective "mess managment" tool.

Everyone engaged in the process comes to understand how they effect the overall performance of the firm. When employees begin to use the criterion "the performance of the whole", rather than the department they belong to, the resulting performace improvement in the firm is dramatic.

Interactive Planning

• Promotes Understanding
• Transforms the Designer's Concept of Feasibility
• Simplifies the Planning Process
• Enhances Creativity & removes self imposed constraints
• Facilitates Implementation
• Embeds learning into the system of the firm

Idealized re-design

A design of the system with which the designers would replace the existing system, right now, if they were free to do so.
The selection of ideals lies at the core of Interactive planning. This makes Interactive Planning the best way to embed Cradle to Cradle thinking into a business,
The re-design process is built on the following base assumptions,

• The future is created by what we and others do between then and now
• The cost and performance of any system are design driven.

The Intereactive Planning process is founded in rigorous academic research but is highly practical and for over 30 years has proven invaluable in many work places in NZ and overseas. Some examples can be seen here. Detailed case studies are available in the partner’s section.

Adapted from “Creating the Corporate Future” R L Ackoff (1981).