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- 1. Complexity,
Performance Management
&
Global Corporate Citizenship
The Gaiamap™ and Meshworks™ for high performance and systemic change
Contents
Key Points ......................................................................................................................... 2
Tools for Global Corporate Citizenship ............................................................................. 2
Meshworks ........................................................................................................................ 2
The Gaiamap .................................................................................................................... 3
Complexity, Global Impact and Global Corporate Citizenship .......................................... 3
Complexity and what is emerging ..................................................................................... 4
The 7 Step Meshwork Process ......................................................................................... 4
Drivers of Performance Transformation ............................................................................ 5
Learning from Healthy Living Systems .............................................................................. 6
The Gaiamap – Including People, Organisation and Whole System ................................ 7
Mapping Strategy within a Complex System..................................................................... 8
Gaiamap example ............................................................................................................. 9
Resilience – being prepared for the unexpected............................................................. 10
Measuring Values ........................................................................................................... 10
Emergence, Opportunity and Global Corporate Citizenship ........................................... 12
Transformation DNA ....................................................................................................... 13
Conclusions: Solutions for Global Corporate Citizenship................................................ 13
DRAFT 1.10
Morel Fourman
Gaiasoft International
November 2009
www.Gaiasoft.com
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- 2. Key Points
• Global Corporate Citizenship is the emerging business strategy to achieve
sustainability, resilience and green prosperity in times of turbulence and change.
• Simultaneous crises demand a systemic approach: financial crisis; ecosystems
collapse; climate change; peak oil and the human consequences of all of these.
• Meshworks provide the organizing process and structure for systemic change –
across departments, supply chain partners, stakeholders and sectors.
• The Gaiamap™ provides a way to strategize, scenario plan, govern and manage
for global corporate citizenship – taking account of relationships between
performance, transformation and leadership for individual employees, an
organization and the whole system.
• “Transformation DNA” stores the change templates for an organisation to
transition, transform and improve as a global corporate citizen.
Tools for Global Corporate Citizenship
With accelerating and simultaneous challenges, some perceive the global economy as
precariously close to melt down, while others see a system being forced to make a state-
change to new model of performance.
Businesses are being forced to up their game by the challenges of change and the
demands of stakeholders. Some are choosing to leapfrog demand and necessity to
become fit-for-purpose as resilient, sustainable, prosperous contributors to a resilient
global economy which works for all its stakeholders and the planet.
Global Corporate Citizenship requires new tools born of a systemic perspective and
collaborative mindset. This paper introduces the Gaiamap as a tool for strategy,
scenario planning, management and governance and Meshworks as an approach to
systemic collaboration.
Meshworks
Today, business units, informal networks, supply chains and trade associations work
with government and regulatory counterparts to grapple with unprecedented challenges.
Innovation and agility are becoming survival skills as the tectonic plates of the global
economy creak, shift and move. Every functioning organization has formal and informal
human networks which enable working across geographies, business units and
departments. People, networks and communication systems connect in an
organizational brain. These networks spark and fire like brain synapses in a storm of
activity as the organization registers and responds to change.
The word meshwork originally described the mesh of neuron connections in a brain. In
this paper, the word meshwork describes the collective brain which enables an
organization, or cross-sector collaboration to think, decide and work together. In this
context, a meshwork is a social process and communications infrastructure for systemic
collaboration. A meshwork aligns people and resources, supply chains and
stakeholders, to achieve a common purpose consistent with shared principles. A
meshwork is a fractal structure which works at multiple levels of scale simultaneously. A
meshwork may develop for a global industry sector or a local market. Developing a
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- 3. meshwork builds resilience through relationship. Meshworks overlap and interpenetrate.
High performing meshworks are strong and agile, balancing structure and fluidity. High
performing meshworks can achieve radical change and develop surprising innovations
which are beyond the capability of any participant. Without a meshwork structure and
process, an industry sector or stakeholders may spend years in conflict, positioning and
posturing, frustrating the good intentions of everyone involved. A high performance
meshwork is characterized by certain criteria. A traditional network or industry
association, a public-private-partnership, or national economy can be measured against
these criteria and considered as a maturing meshwork. This paper describes meshwork
tools to enable rapid transition and high performance in times of change.
The Gaiamap
This paper introduces the Gaiamap, a Governance, Accountability, Implementation,
Alignment strategy mapping tool, which facilitates a systemic approach to scenario
planning, strategy development governance and performance management. A Gaiamap
provides for the managing of values and culture alongside business performance for an
organization as a part of a whole system.
Because creating a Gaiamap highlights the connectivity and interdependence of
organizations and supply-chains, using a Gaiamap helps to develop organizational and
systems resilience. Developing a Gaiamap makes an organization aware of the
meshwork on which its strategy implementation, resilience and success depend.
Complexity, Global Impact and Global Corporate Citizenship
Turbulence has replaced the stable conditions for which most of our organization
systems and tools were developed. Change is accelerating and complexity is
increasing. A business must be able to develop and implement its strategy in the
context of its supply chain, stakeholders and larger world.
The decisions that businesses make have far reaching and often un-expected effects.
With increasing controls on corporate governance and impacts of consumer activism, to
avoid unacceptable corporate risk and personal risk to executives, the planet and
society must be considered as stakeholders.
As organizations and markets become truly global, strategies and actions shape the
global system. Developing strategy for a business without taking into account the whole
system is at best risky for the business and at worst risky for the global system of which
it is a part.
As change in the global system accelerates, every organisation is impacted by the
intersecting waves of cause and effect. Business strategy, business plans and
management must deal with new levels of complexity.
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- 4. Complexity and what is emerging
In complex systems multiple factors interact leading to unexpected performance. The
simple thinking of A causes B is not sufficient. The business environment is becoming
increasingly complex and that complexity can lead to instability. The popular example
from complexity theory states that: “If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it can cause a
storm in the USA.” While complex systems cannot be effectively modelled and
understood with simple ‘A causes B’ thinking, systems theory provides tools for
understanding and working with complex systems.
Associated with the idea of a system is the
principle of emergence. From the mutual
interaction of the parts of a system
characteristics or attributes arise which can
not be found as characteristic of any of the
individual parts. By working with what is
emerging business leadership has the
potential to ride the wave of change.
To survive turbulent times as a part of a
complex system, businesses, particularly
large ones, must become better at
managing complexity, harnessing
emergence – like the pilot who rides a jet
stream rather than being buffeted by
passing across it.
A caterpillar may never become a bird, but given the right conditions, it will become a
butterfly…
While a business may appear to be buffeted by unexpected change on every side, from
a systems point of view, all of the buffeting may be understandable as a part of the
pattern that is emerging. To work with what is emerging, a business must understand
and take into account the impacts of the global system on the business and the impacts
of the business on the global system
In summary, to work with complexity, the strategy development process must be
designed to take account of “what is emerging” in the business and in the system of
which the business is a part.
The 7 Step Meshwork Process
Gaiasoft’s meshwork process is designed to develop a high performance meshwork,
with clear purpose and suitable structure. The meshwork process facilitates emergence
of collaboration communities and structure. Meshwork facilitation accelerates innovation
as well as defining and implementing meshwork goals. The meshwork process was
developed from experience of facilitating and implementing strategic governance and
management frameworks for large enterprises and governments, from working with
business associations, supply chains and also with grass roots organisations,
particularly in developing countries.
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- 5. The meshwork process serves both as a framework for consulting and facilitation and
delivers an online meshwork collaboration platform. Meshwork consulting and
facilitation is a train the trainer process provided by specialist partners. The process
can be cascaded through large organisations or replicated across business units and
supply chains.
Drivers of Performance Transformation
At every level organizations are being forced to transform. Some of the transformation
drivers forcing change are tabulated below.
Driver Description
Financial Crisis Impacts of the global financial crisis on the business
for example availability of credit, loss of trust and
collapsing markets.
Climate Change Impacts of climate change, for example through
pressures on energy use, consumer activism and the
demands of employees and partners.
Regulation & Compliance Regulation like Sarbanes Oxley, labor, diversity and
corporate social responsibility laws and guidelines.
Competition Competition on every side. What used to be profitable
is not profitable any more.
Globalization Countries are now specialist suppliers. What we do is
cheaper to do elsewhere. Our business model is no
longer sustainable with the new global environment,
cost and market. We must become global to
compete.
Digitization Business no-longer works the way it did. Digital
technologies have changed the business environment.
Automation and integration of processes is required.
Use of the Internet and mobile technologies is a driver
of globalization.
Security We increasingly have to protect our data, our
infrastructure, our organization from previously
unexpected risks and threats.
Burnout We need to drive individual improvement, but the
motivation is gone. We’ve got no more personal
energy to put in.
Transparency Customers, suppliers, employees and stockholders
see everything we do… and they don’t accept some of
what we do.
Government legislation affects usage of resources. Resource usage affects the land,
air, sea and weather pattern. A single hurricane can affect the global oil price. The
interdependency of businesses, governments, society and our planetary biosphere are
becoming increasingly clear.
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- 6. Learning from Healthy Living Systems
As speed of change and turbulence increases, businesses are exploring and adopting
systems-theory approaches to strategy, planning and change. Here are some
definitions and observations from Systems Theory.
The word ‘holon’ describes a whole which is itself made up of parts. A holarchy is a
hierarchy of such holons. From a systems theory point of view, an organization is a
holon containing people. The global economy is a holon containing organizations.
Systems Theory provides specific guidelines for the sustainability of a healthy system.
Bidirectional information flow between a holon and its parts is essential, as is
bidirectional information flow between the parts within a holon. When a part within a
living system ceases to take into account the needs or instructions of the whole system,
the stability of the system as a whole is compromised. Cancer in a living organism is an
example of where a part ceases to behave according to the needs of the whole. In
conclusion, we can say that parts within a whole must act according to their roles,
responsibilities and authorities.
Organizations are embedded in the global system and are influenced by and influence
the global system. An organization ‘contains’ people and is influenced by and influences
the people within it. Information flows bidirectionally between people and organization
and between organization and global system. When the bidirectional information flow
breaks down the system begins to break down. When businesses fail to recognize their
dependence on people and their responsibility to the organizing authority of society &
the planet the whole system begins to break down. Much of the turbulence that we now
see within organizations and within the global system can be related to the wholes and
parts not recognizing their respective roles, responsibilities and authorities.
In biological systems, homeostasis is the continual process of bidirectional information
flow, feedback and correction that operates at every level from organism to sub-cellular
structure. In business, performance management, the process of measurement and
feedback, provides a key element of the homeostatic process that maintains the
business.
By reference to the needs of healthy living systems, we recognize that organizations
must also practice homeostasis – through bidirectional information flow with the larger
system. The content of these information flows and the degree of feedback and
correction will determine the health of the system overall. By reference to healthy
biological systems organizations must manage their activities to meet the needs of the
whole system, to play a positive, healthy, sustainable role in the larger system. To
create a resilient system of organizations within the global system and people within the
organization - there must be bidirectional information flows, feedback and correction at
all levels. The information flow contents must be designed to ensure that the needs of
organization, employees and the larger system are met.
This provides a test for business as a part of a healthy whole system, to achieve
resilience: strategy, plans and performance management systems must measure,
feedback and drive actions to ensure that the needs of organization, employee and
whole system are met. As a minimum, our strategic map and our scenario plans must
take into account three levels of system: employee, organization and whole system.
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- 7. The Gaiamap – Including People, Organisation and Whole System
In the book ‘Presence’ which describes the development and use of the U-Process in
detail, Jaworski et al identify the need for business strategy to consider the whole
system, the planet and society as well as the needs, culture and values of people within
the organization. Driving business performance from values & culture and the idea of a
strategy that delivers for all stakeholders are not the default standard in business. As a
part of a complex system a global business shapes and is shaped by the global system
and its people.
Gaiamap provides a framework for systematically considering and tracking the
relationships between person, organisation and system. The quality movement
transformed global business and the global economic landscape in 50 years. A key
insight of quality management is that paying attention to HOW things are done is
essential to improving WHAT gets achieved. ISO9001, for example, is intended to
ensure that business processes work as a system to produce intended outputs. The
standard provides a common ‘DNA’ for good practice shared by thousands of
businesses around the world. This or an equivalent level of attainment is a requirement
of any global business in the 21st Century.
The Gaiamap addresses the HOW of transformation. It also addresses the potential
blind spot of leadership, culture and values. The Gaiamap framework explicitly
recognises that leadership drives transformation projects and programs which in turn
drive performance. The way that businesses do leadership, culture and transformation
will be as important to business in the 21st Century as quality management was in the
20th Century. Interdependent value chain partners will increasingly need to performance
manage the ‘DNA’ of leadership, culture, transformation and performance across
interfaces.
The Gaiamap™
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- 8. Mapping Strategy within a Complex System
With today’s unprecedented complexity, turbulence and speed of change traditional
models for strategy and implementation are failing. Two issues are particularly relevant:
Systemics – the impact of the global system on the business and the impact of the
business on the global system. Global businesses are getting bigger and the global
system is getting smaller. Factors such as oil price rises and climate change are
increasingly important. Meanwhile, a top global business, for example an oil company or
retailer, has a sizable role in global resource usage and resulting emissions. A strategy
that ignores these systemic issues is likely to ignore key risks and opportunities.
People and Culture – Meanwhile, human values and organisational culture are at the
root of key business drivers like good corporate governance, reputation, good project
management, process management and the ability to transform. Behind the so-called
‘war for talent’ is the human need to find meaning, to work towards a vision, to be
aligned with purpose, to live by values and ethics. While the war for talent continues in
earnest, the best people increasingly gravitate towards organizations which align to their
purpose, vision and values. The vision, mission and values of employees and the
culture of an organization are vital drivers of success. Just as the Balanced Scorecard
provided a model that extended strategic thinking beyond financial issues, 21st Century
business needs a strategic model that takes into account human values and
organization culture alongside impact on the system and social responsibility.
The Gaiamap provides a way to visually map and ‘scenario plan’ the cause and effect
relationships between levels of a system: Individual, Organization and Whole System. It
recognizes that each of these has an inner state that drives its actions resulting in outer
performance and results. This is
summarized as:
• Individual: A shift in personal Be
(Leadership) Do
(Transformation)
Have
(Performance)
belief changes our actions
driving results.
• Organization: A shift in
Individual
organization culture, changes
actions to drive performance.
• Whole System: A shift in
Organisation
societal culture, changes
actions to change the system.
The Gaiamap below emphasises the Whole System
relationship between Leadership,
Performance and Transformation and
the connections between the individual, the organization and the whole system.
Ultimately, transformation begins with the ‘Be-ing’ of an individual, which impacts the
‘Do-ing’ and results in ‘Have-ing’. A shift in personal purpose, vision, values, and beliefs
drives a shift in behaviours and actions. A shift in personal behaviours and actions can
drive a change in organization culture. A change in organization culture impacts
organizational actions and transformation which in turn impacts results. The Gaiamap
above shows the healthy flow of change from individual leadership to societal outcome.
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- 9. Gaiamap example
Now let’s see how this works in practice with a Gaiamap
Be
(Leadership) Do Have
example.
(Transformation) (Performance)
A corporation responds to globalization by taking production
off-shore (A). The intention is to drive improved margins,
profits and share price (B). Simple!
Individual
A: Cost cutting goal
Drives off-shore
manufacture
That was the theory. In reality, the result of the cost
Culture Actions Results
cutting goal (A) is that manufacturing is moved
Organisation offshore damaging people and communities (B).
Increasing transparency means that consumers
B: Improved margins
drive profits and
become aware of the sweat-shop
Increased shareholder
value
Whole System
employment conditions in an off-shore factory
(C). The business’ global reputation, brand
(C) and sales (D) are damaged. At the same
time key employees become cynical when they see their organization is behaving
unethically (E). Their work
loses meaning their
actions are ineffective
(F) and productivity Be
(Leadership) Do Have
declines (G). They (Transformation) (Performance)
experience being
burned out.
Their loss of
productivity F: Employee cynicism
G: Employee
behaviour reflects in
reduces the Individual
negatively impacts
behaviour
reduced performance
productivity H: Reduced employee performance
of the reflects in negative business
results
organization
undermining
D: Decrease in brand
results, profits and Organisation
Reputation and public
perception undermines
share price (H). A E. Negative brand reputation sales, revenues, A: Cost Cutting Goal
share price Drives Off-Shore
simple cost cutting creates cynicism
among employees Manufacture
initiative taken right
from the strategic plan B: Factory conditions
has impacted the brand value damage people
and communities
and human capital in ways Whole System
that the original business
case never predicted. What C: News of factory
looked like a successful play conditions
undermines brand
now looks like a career failure. reputation and public
perception
No one thought of this when they signed off the Balanced
Scorecard or the Business Plan. The newspapers call it a crisis of leadership and
ethics.
Everything is connected. Questioned by family and friends about principles and values,
executives wonder how they made the decision they did. It seemed so simple at the
time. No-one has gained. No one went out of their way to do a bad job. The situation
was too complex for the strategy, planning and decision making process. This simple
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- 10. example shows how vulnerable our leaders and businesses are to the complexities of
21st Century business. By providing a way for an organization to ‘see’ itself, a
performance measurement system creates the reality by which an organization judges
its performance. With a process of analysis, action-taking and learning, performance
measurement becomes performance management. Where there are blind spots in the
measurement system, there will be blind spots in management and the potential for
failure. Single-minded focus on financial results may undermine the customer loyalty on
which long-term success depends.
The Balanced Scorecard has helped businesses to understand the cause and effect of
Learning & Growth results, driving good Processes, driving happy Customers,
resulting in good Financial results. The approach of Strategy Mapping has helped
leadership teams to understand the interrelations of different success factors and how
success factors lead to financial success. For over a decade, the insight of the
Balanced Scorecard and strategy mapping added value to many businesses, helping to
fundamentally shift the thinking of business from simple financial focus to a more
complete, whole and insightful view.
The Gaiamap adds a whole systems dimension to the performance measurement
capabilities of the Balanced Scorecard, and the success factors revealed in Strategy
Maps by showing the cause and effect relationships between the Individual, the
Organisation and the Whole System.
Resilience – being prepared for the unexpected
In a turbulent environment, business continuity and sustainability demands resilience.
Resilience is the robustness of the organization in the face of all risks and disruptions
from all causes.
Addressing resilience means systematically addressing:
• Climate change, peak oil and water supply
• Compliance standards such as SOX, Quality and Environmental standards
• Market drivers such as globalization and competition
• Talent drivers such as burnout and meaning
• Areas of risk such as Operational, Market, Economic, Environmental risks
A resilient business is more able to meet the challenges and take the opportunities of an
increasingly turbulent business environment. The Gaiamap can be used as a framework
to map risks and resilience by identifying risks in each of the 9 hexagons of the map and
by identifying interdependencies between hexagons.
Measuring Values
In using the Gaiamap and as a part of a whole systems approach, the values of
individuals, the culture of business and of the whole system must be taken into account.
One of the most frequent questions is: can culture really be mapped, managed and
measured? Culture and leadership are frequently referred to as ‘intangibles’ which
means ‘not measurable’. With intangibles contributing about 75% of market value, it is
essential to measure and manage these intangibles.
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- 11. A culture survey using the Seven Levels of Culture model provides a way to measure
values & culture, identify cultural strengths & weaknesses. Different versions of the
same survey can be used for individuals, businesses, business units, supply chain
partners as well as stakeholders. The survey results provide a way to quantitatively
answer questions like:
• Am I an authentic leader? Am I living my values and walking my talk?
• Is this a stressful place to work?
• Are employees engaged or just going through the motions?
• Can this culture achieve safety?
• Can this culture make a profit?
• Will this culture perform well in an emergency?
• Will people in this culture resort to blame or fix problems when they arise?
• Can this culture manage projects and programs?
• Can this culture focus and deliver performance?
• Could this culture give rise to an Enron?
• Has this culture moved beyond efficiency to effectiveness?
• Can this culture collaborate with its supply chain and across organizational
boundaries?
• Is this culture capable of good corporate citizenship?
The Seven Levels survey is used to analyze the values that make up the culture. The
model gives an insight into the strengths of different aspects of a culture as follows:
Level of Culture Model Relevant Capability
Service Ability to create and operate from a vision of service.
Collaboration Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries.
Commitment & Trust Ability to collaborate within the organization.
Innovation Ability to improve and transform.
Efficiency Ability to focus and operate efficiently.
Relationship Ability to sustain good communication and relationships.
Profit & Safety Cultural focus on the bottom line, safety.
Culture surveys based on the Seven Levels model provide a way to assess the
operating culture of an organization and compare the current culture with the need of the
organization to be efficient, to learn and to collaborate etc. By including cultural
measures in the bidirectional performance management between organizations in a
value chain, the quality, effectiveness and resilience of relationships can be improved.
Appreciative Inquiry, an approach that builds on what is working, can be used to identify
the behaviors that support a desired culture. For each intended or espoused positive
value in the culture, there are behaviors which support that value. Here is an example of
behaviors that support the value of Accountability.
The figure below shows how the strengths of organization culture can be represented in
a scorecard.
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- 12. SERVICE & SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY 7
PARTNERSHIPS &
COLLABORATION 6
COMMITMENT & 5
TRUST
EMPOWERMENT &
4
INNOVATION
PERFORMANCE &
EFFICIENCY 3
LOYALTY & 2
RELATIONSHIPS
PROFIT &
SAFETY
1
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Performance Management of Culture
Value Behaviors
Accountability I take responsibility for my actions.
I admit my mistakes, learn from them, and take corrective action.
I do what I say I will do and live up to my commitments.
From “A Whole Systems Change Approach to Cultural Transformation” by Richard Barrett.
360-degree feedback based on an individual’s behaviors provides a way to measure and
manage personal transformation and to support people to align their behaviors with their
intentions and their intentions with the needs of the organization, value chain and whole
system.
Emergence, Opportunity and Global Corporate Citizenship
From living systems we learn that parts of a system naturally develop the capabilities
required by the whole system. Organs within a healthy body are perfectly fit for purpose.
By developing strategy based on what is needed and what is emerging, a global
business can turn economic turbulence into transition opportunity. Throughout this paper
we have referred to the impact of global business on the global system and the impact of
the global system on each business. Today, because of complexity, because of
transparency, because of the war for talent, a systemic approach to performance and
resilience is right for the shareholder, right for the stakeholder and right for the global
system.
Global Corporate Citizenship builds on Corporate Social Responsibility to incorporate
good governance. It describes the commitment & culture of a global business to
proactively deliver for the global system and in the process to leverage opportunities of
the 21st Century business environment. Just as the quality standards of the 20th Century
were developed collaboratively, Corporate Citizenship will be standardized
collaboratively. In the 20th Century, the nations and organizations that drove quality
became the global leaders. So in the 21st Century, the nations and global businesses
that drive and implement Global Corporate Citizenship, systemic management and
resilience will be the global leaders of the future.
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- 13. Transformation DNA
The growth of standards and outsourcing is a natural response to complexity in the
global economic system. The long-term performance of a 21st Century business
depends on the ability to develop and collaborate in strategy implementation across its
value chain which, means across organization boundaries. Summarising earlier
sections: to be resilient, value chains must have bidirectional information flows,
performance management, at all interfaces within the system. The sustainability and
resilience of 21st Century business will depend on governance, accountability and
alignment of these interfaces.
In the 20th Century, many global businesses grew by deploying quality and standards
across a global matrix organization. In the 21st Century the key will be to codify, improve
and deploy the leadership, culture and transformation ‘DNA’ of business alongside other
quality and governance standards. Transformation DNA refers to a general approach to
codifying, storing and re-using measures of WHAT and HOW for systemic change.
Transformation DNA can be developed, categorised and catalogued using the Gaiamap,
to ensure that Global Corporate Citizenship strategies and scenario plans are robust and
complete. This framework can provide a basis for CSR reporting as well as voluntary
reporting for example based on the Global Reporting Initiative and Carbon Disclosure
project. Transformation DNA translates the objective of Global Corporate Citizenship
into a practical, measurable, actionable framework. Transformation DNA provides a
framework for meshworking, aligning measures, knowledge and people in support of the
mission of the organisation.
Conclusions: Solutions for Global Corporate Citizenship
Gaiasoft is supporting a growing movement with software platform and processes for
systemic governance and meshworking. Gaiasoft’s platform provides tools to define and
embed Global Corporate Citizenship in strategy, governance and management
processes. The Gaiasoft platform is used to capture, improve and re-use
Transformation DNA. The platform aligns performance, transformation and leadership to
achieve systemic change, resilience and business sustainability.
Global Corporate Citizenship is a practical response to extreme complexity and
accelerating turbulence. It provides a strategy for business sustainability, resilience and
green prosperity. The business, its strategy, governance and management are
designed to play a positive and useful role in the transition to a sustainable, resilient and
prosperous future global economy. A new generation of governance, collaboration and
management tools is required to implement Global Corporate Citizenship. The Gaiamap
provides a 21st Century framing for business strategy and performance management.
Meshworking provides a high performance solution to collaboration within and between
large enterprises, industries and supply chains. Gaiasoft’s partners provide consulting,
facilitation and information technology services to support Global Corporate Citizenship.
Client projects implement performance management systems and meshworks which
deliver measurable and sustainable results through systemic change.
Gaiamap is a trademark of Gaiasoft IP Ltd. “Meshwork” – as it relates to a social process is a trademark of CHE
Netherlands on behalf of CHE Global and the word “meshwork” as it relates to a technology platform is a trademark of
Gaiasoft IP Ltd.
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