Tackling complex challenges through systems innovation

We advance the system methodologies and leadership models that are needed for a future marked by increasing complexity, rapid change, and uncertainty.

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System Transformation Nexus

Become part of a community of global thought leaders on a quest for next generation solutions.

Learn more about the Nexus >

ENROLL

Systems Leadership Programs

Build innovation capacity for transforming systems at scale.

Learn Systems Transformation >

ENGAGE

Systems Initiatives

Leverage the System Acupuncture process to tackle complex, scaled, systemic challenges.

Shape Systems Initiatives >

Support

We need your support to advance systems innovation methodologies and carry out work on transformation initiatives of global importance.

We use systems approaches to address systems challenges.

We help bring clarity to complex challenges and innovate transformative interventions to address them.
Our approaches are designed for practical use while founded upon deep theoretical roots.

System Acupuncture
Systems Leadership
Designing for Scale
Platform Design

Fourth Sector Business Models
Design Thinking
Behaviorally Informed Design
Game System Design

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Use systems approaches to address systems challenges

We bring clarity to complex systemic challenges and innovate transformative interventions to address them. Our approaches are designed for practical use while founded upon deep theoretical roots.

System Acupuncture®
Systems Leadership
Designing for Scale
Platform Design

Fourth Sector Business Models
Design Thinking
Behaviorally Informed Design
Game System Design

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Design a System Transformation initiative or platform

We work with partners across sectors to manage rapid change and design system transformation initiatives. Uncertainty, resilience risks, and systemic challenges require new mindsets and actions that create ecosystems for system transformation. Some elements of transformative initiatives include:

Multi-stakeholder initiatives seeking win-win outcomes
Organizational shifts and new innovation cultures
Platforms for impact and multi-stakeholder co-creation
Next generation technology strategy and business model innovation

New evaluation and navigation platform architectures
Behavior change and Diffusion Strategy
Systems Leadership and innovation capacity
Scaled Impact Summits

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We use systems approaches to address systems challenges.

We help bring clarity to complex challenges and innovate transformative interventions to address them.
Our approaches are designed for practical use while founded upon deep theoretical roots.

System Acupuncture

Use ChangeLabs's powerful system innovation approach, System Acupuncture, to strategically act on systemic transformation at scale.

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Systems Leadership

Gain the skills and mindsets required to lead change in the 21st Century. Instill an innovation culture into your organization with Systems Leadership.

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Design Thinking

Design amazing experiences for your customers using Design Thinking and maximize the value of your products and services.

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We share news, updates, and thought pieces that spur from our work in Systems Innovation.

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System. Innovation. Transformation. Learning a New Approach to Complex Challenges

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Systems Initiatives

Systems innovation approaches can be applied to all types of challenges.
Our approaches are most leveraged when addressing contexts that are complex, scaled, and involve many stakeholders with differing perspectives.

LANDIS: A futures market for the value of Latin American farmland under sustainable management

The Nature Conservancy

Future of Connected Homes

AT&T

Distributed Innovation Capacity in Africa

The ResilientAfrica Network, USAID

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"System Acupuncture is an extremely powerful methodology that can generate actionable and cross-cutting platforms."

- Rodger Voorhies, Director Global Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

"The ChangeLabs team left no stone unturned. From the diverse set of interviews, to the various means of refining the suggested platform and the scaling approach, we couldn't be more pleased with their recommendations."

- Chris Avila Hübschmann, Founder & CEO, Credit Do

"In just two days, we've achieved more than what we've been trying to do for six months."

- Member of The Ocean and Fisheries Team, Rockefeller Foundation

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Tackling complex challenges through systems innovation

System Transformation Nexus

Systems Leadership Programs

Systems Initiatives

Support

We need your support to advance systems innovation methodologies and carry out work on transformation initiatives of global importance.

System Transformation Nexus

Systems Leadership Programs

Systems Initiatives

Support

We need your support to advance systems innovation methodologies and carry out work on transformation initiatives of global importance.

We use systems approaches to address systems challenges.

Use systems approaches to address systems challenges

Design a System Transformation initiative or platform

We use systems approaches to address systems challenges.

System Acupuncture

Systems Leadership

Design Thinking

Read our latest insights

System. Innovation. Transformation. Learning a New Approach to Complex Challenges

Systems Transformation Miniseries: The Problem with Problems

Insights on Solving the SDGs from 2018 Australian Fulbright Fellow

Article in Dagens Perspektiv: Leadership of the Future

From the Sweden Institute of Design: Participate with the future

Collaborating With the Future at Stanford’s Design Institute

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