How can you engage people in exploring their own ideas for tackling the complex factors affecting health and obesity in their community
Community leaders in West Auckland New Zealand were interested in exploring how they could address the factors driving poor health and rising obesity in their community
Renal care case study
The data was clear. The population was ageing, and they were developing increasingly complex health problems with the result that the numbers requiring kidney dialysis was rising, and likely to continue doing so.
Acute demand case study
You’re building a major extension to your facilities in response to acute demand. How do you decide how many beds you need and when’re do you put them?
How can a small, resource-limited community, tackle significant health problems?
We delivered a series of workshops to develop causal maps which identify strategic issues and intervention points
System stories
Synergia the first 20 years: a personal journey
July 8, 2019The founder of the Centre for System Design discusses the origins of Synergia and the motivations behind establishing the Centre
Read moreEven Economists Can’t Defy the Laws of Physics
September 9, 2019One of the key ideas in systems thinking is that underpinning the everyday events we see is a structure, while harder to see, drives the behaviour of the system. ‘Structure’, is systems jargon, for the pattern of relationships that create the design of the system, and if we are seeking to improve a system, we […]
Read moreThe Many Causes of COVID-19
May 5, 2020As we struggle to come to grips with COVID-19, many of us are thinking about what happens after we get on top of the current crisis. New Zealand, is in week two of a four-week lockdown, and many are asking what comes next. When will we come out of lockdown? Should we come out later? […]
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