Understanding the big
picture is essential if we are to bring about change.
Whether in the form of a change programme
within an organisation or a community based regeneration programme,
a simple top-down
approach is severely limited.
Instead, everybody needs to provide input, everybody has to
buy-in and everyone needs to participate in the solution.
To tap into this organisational intelligence (the Wisdom of
the Crowd*) everyone needs to be able to see how the organisation
fits within the wider world. Everyone needs to understand the
constraints and to be able to seek out win-win opportunities.
The awareness and effective implementation of crosscutting
themes (such as sustainable development and governance) is
essential if people, businesses and communities are to improve
performance in a fair and sustainable way.
Sustainable development and other issues
such as resource
efficiency, governance are everybody’s concern, but often
not everybody’s responsibility.
Solution pixelfountain is a lead player in
developing new ways of understanding and implementing
the principles of sustainable
development, waste management, governance and regeneration.
We achieve this goal by using learning-simulations (serious
games / games based learning) within the private sector,
public sector and community and voluntary groups.
The interconnectedness of these problems is
explained
in learning-simulations in a way not possible
with traditional
learning approaches.
Lancashire County Council
show Waste
management
can be fun
Planit-nw encourages
delegates to realise how decisions they make will affect social
progress, the environment and the economy. Regen-IT considers
regeneration by integrating thematic areas that are typically dealt
with separately.
PlanitWASTE looks at waste management
by considering it in wider sustainable terms.
Govern-IT considers the issue
of governance in Local Authorities. All these solutions allow
delegates to experience the problem afresh and enable them to
dream up new solutions.
“Opportunity to see how decisions made in
different directions
have an overall impact on the economy and social environment.”
“Only 5% of people claim to be up to speed about what
their council does, and 4% of people work in local government” -
Public Servant, May 2006.
* The Wisdom of Crowds – Why the many are smarter than
the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies,
societies and nations by James Surowiecki
