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MONTANA VALUE-ADDED FOOD BUSINESS ACTOR MAP.
Every party a value-added food maker in Montana works with to make a business happen: suppliers, kitchens, regulators, channels, buyers, support and capital, and how they connect.
USING AN ACTOR MAP TO FIND SYSTEMIC BUFFERS.
Using the Seattle/Tacoma actor map to find and analyze system buffers.
SEATTLE-TACOMA GATEWAY ACTOR MAP.
A map of the independent businesses, unions and agencies that move a container through the Seattle and Tacoma harbors and their relationships
WHY SPECIALTY CARGO UNDERWRITERS WOULD ADOPT CARGO EVENT INFRASTRUCTURE FIRST.
A look at the incentives of specialty cargo underwriters, how those incentives show up in the market today, and whether one firm moving first would pull the rest along.
FINDING CORNERSTONE ACTORS FOR MARITIME DATA'S FINANCIAL LAYER.
Using systems knowledge to find who benefits from building cargo-data-as-financial-events infrastructure.
DATA SHARING IN MARITIME.
How The Floating Balance Sheet white paper makes a detailed case for systemic design and data sharing in maritime.
THIRD PLACES AND COFFEE IN THE FLATHEAD VALLEY.
Why the evolution of the coffee shop could be an opportunity for multi-impact businesses in the Flathead Valley.
INITIAL THOUGHTS ON MARITIME TECH.
A systemic design response to Digital Ship’s $423.4bn maritime digitalisation market article.
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STRUCTURAL RESILIENCE IN A LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM.
Why King County's Farm to Food Bank Programs are Resilient by Design.
WHAT KILLING FROSTS CAN TEACH US.
Why would a Flathead Valley orchardist lease land five miles from their home operation? The answer reveals how thinking systemically makes local food systems stronger.
BRINGING THE RESEARCH TO THE BUILDERS.
How designing automated research infrastructure for an AI startup illustrates the process of systemic design applied to human systems.
HOW SIMPLE TACTICS BECOME MEANINGFUL INTERVENTIONS.
Paying attention to the needs of a system can give simple, well-known techniques outsized impact with cascading effects.
WEAVING INCENTIVES INTO STRUCTURES.
How designing a certification program around real motivations instead of mandates produced lasting organizational change.
DESIGNING TEAM FLOW.
How designing the teamwork and the software together using systemic principles enabled parallel delivery with minimal coordination overhead.