Posted by Steve Waddell in Change, Learning, Net Dev on April 21, 2010

Networks aiming for large systems change go through development stages as they grow and move from initiation to realizing their potential. But throughout these stages, there are three particular dynamics important to nurture across these stages.

Competition Among Change Networks

Posted by Steve Waddell in Learning, Net Dev, Policy/ad. on March 31, 2010

When John Ruggie was describing his work with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to reduce corporate-related human rights abuses, I couldn’t help thinking “do we really need another global network on this issue? Would it be better to think about possibilities of them working together more closely? Is this simply another case of ‘government’ wanting to “be in charge’, and resistant to joining others? Or are the current networks too tied to their own identities to look at the bigger change opportunity?”

Financial crisis as a large system change challenge

Posted by Steve Waddell in Learning, Net Dev, Policy/ad. on February 10, 2010

If you were given 10 million euros and three to five years, how would you go about “changing the role of the financial system to better serve economic, social and environmental objectives”? The EU is asking that question. And that’s something that I’ve been answering with a consortium of more that 20 European universities. Our proposal went in last week.