What We Do

Systems Research

The wicked problem you are facing is likely to have underlying forces that manifest in the rates of unemployment/corruption/healthcare access/etc which you are trying to address. We use qualitative methods from social anthropology, quantitative methods from statistics, computational methods from agent-based modelling, network science, and other interdisciplinary sensibilities from complex systems science to provide sense-making of these underlying dynamics so as to inform where in the system to intervene.

Past clients/funders include UNDP.

Teaching

We developed a summer elective on complexity science and systems thinking for research-track medical undergraduates. Previously we also taught graduate students for a Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration, a programme for sustainability professionals in government, civil society and business.

We like to use models to show live demos of complexity properties in interactive workshop format, and can tailor this for non-technical audiences as well. We also like to link these concepts (which can be abstract) to the real-life situations our participants face, which makes it more relatable and real.

Past clients/funders include YLLSOM and LKYSPP at NUS; SOSS at SMU.

Strategic Foresight

There is limited runway to plan the strategy for your organisation (or country) if your outlook is 3-5 years. We help you prepare for a greater range of possible futures by looking 10-20 years ahead, using the method of scenario planning. We combine the generative aspects of scenario generation with the analytical rigour of systems thinking, to think with you about an uncertain and ambiguous tomorrow so you can make decisions that prepare for and shape it today.

Past clients/funders include USAID.