Systemic alignment across stakeholders
Social impact initiatives unfold across interconnected levels and draw on different forms of knowledge. Implementation, in turn, brings new insights that need to inform the ongoing refinement of strategy.
In an ExAct Forum, participants use their positions and movements to make the structure of their situation literally visible. This clear physical reference helps stakeholders engage with the intervention as a shared undertaking.
Initiatives engage many stakeholders, and they may see different risks and opportunities. When these interpretations remain disconnected, the project can be pulled in competing directions.
ExAct Forum helps develop a shared direction while preserving different perspectives.
Professional expertise, institutional memory, technical and scientific understanding, local knowledge and lived experience often come with different vocabularies and priorities.
ExAct Forum integrates different contributions into a spatial representation, turning insights distributed across stakeholders into a resource for the initiative as a whole.
Even a well-designed initiative can lose momentum when its strategy, practices and stakeholders’ perspectives are no longer compatible with new social, economic, political and technological trends.
Stakeholders may see different aspects of these changes.
ExAct Forum supports the ongoing development of the project by helping stakeholders incorporate new insights into a shared interpretation.
If any of the situations above feel familiar in your initiative, ExAct Forum can help establish the shared reference needed for systemic alignment.