Recently, design has been gaining a reputation for leading much needed innovation of health care products and services to improve the patient experience. The case of a trans-ministry design team applying systemic design methodology around a shared strategic concern is presented. The model of the Department of Energy in Alberta, Canada is examined with a view towards articulating this emerging context for systemic design practice. Governments are responding to complexity in policy decisions design consultants are retained government staff are trained in designerly ways and, experienced-designers are employed on in-house consulting teams. Themselves around discrete policy silos, each bringing an expert depth to their thematic responsibility.Д¬omplexity as it is now, calls upon government to navigate policy predicaments with a new architecture one that brings both depth and context for rigorous policy. In simpler times, and in the absence of complex systems methodologies, this approach was the best option for policy development.Д¬onsistent with this view, governments organized This linear and monistic approach broughtДepth but lacked context of the wider societal, technological, economic, ecological and political system. Notable examples abound but this complexity manifests at the human scale towards whole systems and the spaces in-between.Until relatively recently, government policy development, insofar as it was systemic, relied upon hard systems methodology which began with a knowable problem and converged on a solution. Project Aho Freedom Of Choice By cholabarcvil1971 Follow | PublicДЇor a long time, system thinking has mainly been used in analytics, in the fields of natural science and business sciences.ДЄ perfect example would be decisions about regional energy policy.ДЄ governments views about the production, transportation and consumption of energy within their geography notably impacts land development, resource extraction, economic investment, urban design, transportation, climate change, economic competitiveness and the social mix of a region.Д®nergy policy decisions are foundational to complex predicaments, including energy insecurity, poverty, food and water security and social strife.

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