Finding the strategy and the measures

Where can we have the most influence and how do we measure it?

With our approach organizations can build a versatile map helping them apply different lenses / filters enabling better decisions and investments.

Using a map teams can better understand where they can have positive or negative influence, the nature of this influence and a meaningful way to measure their progress.

This first map indicates the 11 most significant direct influences on higher education (according to chat.mistral.ai).

11 most important influences on higher education:

In this next map we have expanded the amount of influences to also demonstrate a layer of indirect influences.

A map like this helps the organization identify more opportunities for influence and better understand (assume) the implications of their influence.

There are almost an infinite amount of influences, but the more layers we add the more complicated and difficult the map becomes.

Depending on who will use the map (e.g. a team of people or a computer) the map gets adapted to it’s users.

Adding layers of influences

Loops = opportunities with outside effect

Finding loops in the system means finding where the system might amplify or dampen any influence the organization adds.

This helps teams prioritize or avoid opportunities where efforts will produce outside effects or wither away.

The illustration shows three loops (yellow, green and purple)