
Stuck in Software?
Design systems that deliver transformation.
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Are you stuck in software that no longer meets your evolving needs? Have you been part of a “digital transformation” that failed to transformed what matters most?
You’ve hit the iceberg that sinks most transformations: We don’t think in systems.
We help you avoid that iceberg. We shift the way teams think, communicate and organize to match the system you want to build.
We also dive into the tech, translating strategy into technology decisions that actually transform.
We partner with teams to create holistic, iterative systems transformation. Our real world experience enables us to discover together what works for you. And help build learning teams that can carry you into the future.
Our mission is helping paradigm shifters lead in the right direction.
We help leaders and learning-driven teams … transform what matters.
01.
Discover
Find the leverage points where a small change can have big impact.
02.
Prioritize
Identify the changes that unlock competitive advantage.
03.
Strategy
Deliver technology systems that meet your highest-value needs.
04.
Model
Collaborative approaches to understanding your needs.
05.
Learning teams
Generate empowered, trustworthy activity that leads in the right direction.
06.
Iterative action
Decide to do the right thing at the right time in the right order. In systems, this is hard!
07.
Workflows
Design the ways people change and grow the system.
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Architecture
Build technology that scales with you by designing relationships, not just features.

Real World Experience
Design a Create Once, Publish Everywhere editing system to replace the legacy print and digital software.

The Economist
Design a system to share knowledge from software to nearly-infinite people, products and platforms.

The Wikimedia Foundation
Design a digital communication and engagement experience to replace a website.

Global Strategy Group
Recent and Upcoming Events

API Day
The API economy has precipitated a need for expert developers and architects who understand the intricacies of building, integrating, and monitoring APIs to connect distributed systems and deliver data for enhanced performance.
March 14, 2023
Watch the stream!

Nonlinear Thinking Workshop
A workshop for thinking well, together, about systems and change. Explore practices for skillfully and consistently cultivating nonlinear approaches and conceptual integrity.
May 3, 2023
Register now!

A technology system is only as strong as the conceptual integrity that binds it.

Diana Montalion – Founder
How We Think
Featured Content
Tools for thinking well together when creating systems.
The Hard Skills? Systems Leadership.
In the world of “digital transformation”, software is becoming systems. In order to provide systems leadership, IT professionals need an emerging set of (new) skills, some we might not think of as “IT skills.” This participatory talk introduces a few.
Integration Leadership
Integration leadership delivers thinking that cultivates conceptual integrity and solves systems challenges. Explores leadership as synthesizing knowledge, experience and good judgement in to sound decisions.
Beyond Coding Podcast: Systems Thinking
Designing systems that accommodate for information in many contexts is incredibly interesting. We explore how think and act in systems. And why this is an emerging skillset.
Defining Strategic Thinking
The value of every decision we make depends on the context in which we make it. Frodo’s journey to destroy the ring is meaningful inside the context of Middle Earth. Otherwise, he’s a short, hairy guy with apocalyptic hallucinations.