Mikael Seppälä

Fat Lizard Töölö: Opportune dinner squeezed into short visit to Helsinki. Discussed state of systems thinking, and realities of attaining acceptance in practice. Matched up incomplete perspectives into stories on university projects. (Helsinki) 20250831 @mikaelseppala.bsky.social #KariMikkela

Transformative Mission-Oriented #Innovation Policies!

#Missions need adaptive, participatory evaluation to guide learning and adjust course. Strategic #foresight helps align research with evolving mission goals

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#moips #policy

Pando Funding: Financing System Change Networks By Robert Ricigliano and Anna Muoio

"Pando Funding is distinctive in its support of networks that are explicitly aimed at improving the health of a complex system over the long term" blog.kumu.io/pando-fundin...

Proactive portfolio management in mission-oriented innovation policy Mission portfolio management is a critical ingredient in the success of mission-oriented innovation policies. This practice aims at ensuring that a consistent and tailor-made set of diverse projects a...

New OECD paper on proactive portfolio management in mission-oriented innovation policy oecd.org/en/publicati... Great to see UNDP portfolio work referenced

II. Herbert A. Simon and "Near-Decomposability" — MENIMAGERIE “Why is reality structured at all?” was what Herbert Simon, an extraordinary polymath regarded as one of last century’s most influential thinkers, asked himself in his watchmaker parable from the arti...

Herbert Simon’s scientific “parable of the two watchmakers” illustrates how modular design enhances efficiency and resilience in complex systems.

Is this principle still relevant in today’s data science practices? It feels resilient and evolutionary.

#ComplexSystems #ModularDesign 

“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it… so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and …takes its place in the web of nature.”

— Christopher Alexander
(A Pattern Language, 1977)

🇪🇺How can EU missions best approach citizen engagement?

IIPP's Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor @rowanconway.bsky.social contributed to EU Missions Research promoting inclusive and participatory #CitizenEngagement at the national level.

🔗Read her report here: https://buff.ly/4ayo99D

Buurtzorg: scaling up an organization with hundreds of self-managing teams but no middle managers - Journal of Organization Design In this contribution to the Organization Zoo series, we examine Buurtzorg, a highly successful Dutch home care organization with over 14 thousand employees that operates without any supervisors or…

Frank Martala and Sharda Nandram. Buurtzorg: scaling up an organization with hundreds of self-managing teams but no middle managers. Journal of Organisation Design. (January 2025)

How Brazilian cities are nurturing transformative capabilities By Anna Goulden

How Brazilian cities are nurturing transformative capabilities medium.com/@iipp-ucl/ho...

📍What does a mission-oriented approach look like in #LocalGovernment?

Diana Rodríguez spoke to IIPP Visiting Professor @cityofsound.bsky.social on how Bogotá transformed its care system as part of our Council on Urban Initiatives project

📺 Watch the discussion here: https://buff.ly/3ZJiEA7

🏙️ 💚 Oletko kiinnostunut kestävyyden strategisesta johtamisesta kunnissa?
Tule mukaan kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan 4.2.2025 Tampereella!
🔗 Ilmoittaudu 21.1.2025 mennessä: forms.office.com/e/CN3uLnuHDn

@ecowelfare.fi @vttfinland.bsky.social @sykefi.bsky.social #kestävyys #kunnat #johtaminen

This is worth paying attention to: If the strategy maintains a focus on transforming the economy and public-private relationships to deliver ‘health for all’ it could yield important lessons for other countries.

Read the Council’s report: who.int/publications... 2/2

🇪🇺How can EU missions best approach citizen engagement?

IIPP's Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor @rowanconway.bsky.social contributed to EU Missions Research promoting inclusive and participatory #CitizenEngagement at the national level.

🔗Read her report here: https://buff.ly/3ZodCcd

Interested in how mission-oriented policies work in practice? Check out the OECD MOIP Online Toolkit - an online database full of cases from around the world
stip.oecd.org/moip/

💭How can we bridge the gap between strategy and execution?

IIPP's @manuel-maldonado.bsky.social reflects on the TRANSFORMA Portfolio Bootcamp, learning about the UNDP's portfolio approach and how it puts dynamic capabilities into practical use.

✍️Read his blog post: https://buff.ly/3OqWMEf

Inside OECD’s Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy Approach | Laurea Journal In the face of today’s pressing societal challenges, mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) offer a strategic approach to achieve transformative goals. OECD ’s Mission Community of Practice…

Excited to share my article on how mission-oriented innovation transforms policy & ecosystems!

Insights from OECD's approach: journal.laurea.fi/inside-oecds...

#InnovationPolicy #MissionOrientedInnovationPolicy #MOIP #OECD #Ecosystems #Sustainability #Collaboration

EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning - The Jim Rutt Show Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his new book, A Universal Learning Process: The Evolution of Meaning.

🎙️ w/ Brendan Graham Dempsey on his new book *The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process.*

We discussed my love for the book, meaning as adaptive information, bogus learning, information overload, wisdom, the evolution of sacredness, and much more.

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Theseus: Impacting the Future: Ecosystem Orchestration for Long-Termism

🌱 Check my new article: "Impacting the Future: Ecosystem Orchestration"!

Learn how long-termism & collaboration can drive sustainable impact.

Read more: urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:a...

#Ecosystems #Innovation #FutureThinking #Sustainability #systemschange

Systems Change Finland seeks to cultivate a society that can deal with systemic and complex challenges. 🚀

You can support the work we're doing by becoming a member of the association: systemschange.fi/membership/

Practical Insights and Tools for Systemic Transitions | Laurea Journal How can transition theories be turned into practical tools for system change? At Engagement Week 2024 in Barcelona, global experts shared hands-on methods that can for example help scale…

🌍 Practical Insights and Tools for Systemic Transitions!

Do check out my latest article that piece covers insights and tools for driving sustainable impact.

🔗 Read it here: journal.laurea.fi/practical-in...

#SystemsChange #InnovationManagement #EcosystemOrchestration #Sustainability