System innovations and social transitions - Strategic Management perspective

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Transition management: A visioning approach to societal transformation what is meant

- Inspires to overcome purely incremental and  adaptive approaches to change

- Paradox ; 'societal change is too complex to handle in terms of management but it is possible to formulate    
   relatively simple rules how to influence societal change

-  Inspired by theories of complex systems thinking

Not only the state of a system changes, but also the 'landscape'- 

 i.e. the potential for change - window of opportunit figure; line goes down

Tipping points and windows of opportunity

- From clear to turbid water

- AL gore on the scene

- High oil prices

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Back to transition management definition and characteristics

- Transition management is about changing the potential for change- affecting attractors

- Vision building and backcasting are important methodological devices

- Within multi-stakeholder Transition Arenas

- So a bit like the Rondeel design process - but generally at a larger scale

Some principles and methodological starting points

- Long-term thinking: visioning, forecasting, backcasting

- Systems thinking (multi-domain, multi-actor, multi-level)

- Flexibility in objectives and process

- Timing: making use of crisis situations

- Selective participation in 'transition arenas'

- Bringing in (relative) 'outsiders'

- Transition experiments

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