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System change: Facing Canada’s toughest challenges
Joeri van den SteenhovenDirector, MaRS Solutions Lab
@joerivds #systemchangesolutions-lab.marsdd.com
Planet Earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do. David Bowie, Space Oddity
System
an interconnected and interdependent patterns of action involving many institutions
Food system Health system
Economic system
Education system
Political system
Transport system
Water system
Social system
1969 - 1989
1969 - 1989
What will be our legacy?
Our legacy:
The transition to the knowledge society
1969
1989
The basic economic resource – the means of production, to use economist’s term – is no longer
capital, nor land, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
Value is now created by productivity and innovation, both applications of knowledge to work.
Peter Drucker (1993)
20 - 30 years
DEPLOYMENT PERIODINSTALLATION PERIOD
20 - 30 years
Due to the difficulty of social absorption of revolutions and new paradigms
EACH GREAT SURGE IS BROKEN INTO TWO DIFFERENT PERIODS
“Creativeconstruction”
Widespread application of the new paradigm
for innovation and growthacross the economy
Spreading of social benefits
Led byproduction capital
From “golden age”to maturity
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“Creative destruction”
Battle of the new paradigmagainst the old
Concentration of investment in new-tech
Income polarisation
Led byfinancial capital
From irruption to bubble collapse
MajorMajortechnologytechnology
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BIG-BANG
GESTATION
Next big-bang
Next Installationperiod
We are here
MATURITY
Carlota Perez. 2002, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages.
Time%
Complexity
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Public%Systems%
Social%Challenges%
System failure
Tensions of Transition
Generational: young vs old
Educational: higher educated vs lower educated
Geographical: urban hotspots vs disconnected
Technological: old infrastructures vs new technologies
Ethical: technological possibilities vs moral ethics
What kind of knowledge society do we want?
Government Society
Difficult to attract and retain people, potential shortages
Less public resources due to the financial crisis
Operating in vertical structures
People better educated and informed, and many want to be engaged
More private capital for social good available than ever before
Technology enables us to collaborate and perform complex tasks horizontally
Decrease of problem solving capacity Problem solving capacity record high
Social Innovation Labs& change / design labs
Strengths
Having a system perspective
Understanding the user
Ideation & Prototyping
Long term
Pitfalls
Not scaling
Lack of learning
Just brainstorming
Just a process
Mission: To help solve complex societal challenges that require system change.
The lab process
H R T M
Hypothesis Research Test Market
Developing new solutions
So D Co PR SC
Solutions Define Co-create Prototype Scale
You only understand the problem once you start to solve it.
Developing new solutions
So D Co PR SC
Solutions Define Co-create Prototype Scale
Developing new solutions
So D Co PR SC
Solutions Define Co-create Prototype Scale
Policy Change
Po F V Ev PF
Policy change Frame Vision Evidence Policy formulation
Building capacity for change
CA ST I EA EM
Capacity Stakeholders Innovators Early adopters Early Majority
Periodic Table of System Change
Po F V Ev PF
So D Co PR SC
CA ST I EA EM
H R T M
In next 5 years we want to prototype new solutions in 5 communities across Ontario,and then help scale what works.
We need to change the behaviour of people at individual, community and system level.
Making healthy eating the easy choice.
Unhealthy eating is #1 factor with 2.9 billion direct health costs in Ontario alone.
55% of direct and indirect health costs are caused by chronic diseases,
and it is growing dramatically.
Challenge #1: Future of Health
We want to select a value chain and explore what can be done to promote a more sustainable, healthy food
economy, leading to better food and more jobs.
For a healthy and more sustainable food economy, we need to change. From production, processing to retail.
But is it competitive for the future? In terms of export value Canada is surpassed by many countries.
And also in terms of sustainability Canada has fallen behind.
The food sector is one of biggest employers in Ontario with 740.000 jobs. It has the 6th largest food processing
sector in North America.
Challenge #2: Future of Food
We want to develop solutions to increase labor participation of youth, starting with young people with disabilities.
Are we preparing our youth for 21st century jobs? Is our labor market ready for the changing structure of
Canada’s economy?
But 13% of Canadian youth are not in work or school. And for some vulnerable groups that number is even higher.
Canada has one of the best education systems in the world and one of the highest educated population.
Challenge #3: Future of Work & Learning
We plan to develop different actions to help government become more open and citizen-centered.
And connect innovators inside and outside government.
Start to redesign public services. Learn to operate from a citizen perspective.
Connect with society to solve problems.
This calls for fundamental government reform. Build a government for the knowledge society.
Governments today face complex challenges in a transforming world
while public resources are decreasing.
Challenge #4: Future of Government
Doing it together
Creating partnerships Building communities
and many more...
Lab Learning
solutions-lab.marsdd.com
and many more...
What kind of knowledge society do we want?
1969 - 1989
System change: Facing Canada’s toughest challenges
Joeri van den SteenhovenDirector, MaRS Solutions Lab
@joerivds #systemchangesolutions-lab.marsdd.com