What we do
AFOCAL supports you to step back and refocus your lens to see your system as a wider, interconnected whole. Using systems thinking frameworks, we support your long-term planning, help you to make sense of persistent challenges, and identify practical pathways forward.
Strategic Planning
In a rapidly changing and disruptive world, it can be challenging to plan confidently.
We use a methodical systems approach that helps you develop, adapt and review strategy, by:
- Mapping the history, context, and dynamics of your system
- Bringing stakeholders together to explore purpose, priorities, and shared value
- Generating a clearer vision for the future and identifying pathways to move towards it
Complex Problems
The challenges organisations face are rarely simple. Most complex problems are shaped by multiple interconnected factors that evolve over time. We facilitate processes that help you:
- Bring people together to work collectively on complex challenges
- Identify the patterns, relationships, and conditions contributing to your complex problem
- Explore practical system-level interventions that support meaningful and lasting change
CHANGE PROCESS
Our systems often go through periods of flux and rapid change. If you’re at the start – or in the middle! – of significant change or transformation, our process helps you:
- Understand the unique dynamics shaping their system
- Highlight decision-making leverage points that focus on building long-term system health, adaptive capacity, and resilience
- Explore practical options for working within your change context
SHARED ISSUES
Many significant challenges are shared across organisations, sectors, and communities. Systems thinking creates space for diverse stakeholders to build shared understanding and identify opportunities for aligned action.
We offer:
- In-person or online facilitated processes that generate shared understanding and willingness to act within diverse groups of stakeholders
- Data-informed options for action, including applicable adaptive governance practices and resilience-based stewardship
What complex and persistent challenges does your organisation face?
If you’re curious about systems thinking and how it can help you find a clear path forward, get in touch.