
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

Software Architecture Superstream
Architecture over Architects: How can architects help the teams they’re supposed to be helping without slowing them down, condescending or making their lives harder?
September, 2022
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Workshop: Nonlinear Thinking
This workshop explores practices for skillfully and consistently cultivating nonlinear thinking and approaches. These skills the key to architecting systems. A remote, hands-on experience.
November 14-17, 2022
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Architecting Systems
Codecamp_The Festival is a one-of-a-kind experience, mixing learning from the best speakers out there, from all over the world. This conference is a great kickoff to the 2023 warmer-weather EU conference season..
May 4, 2023
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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.