Manage for purpose, be accountable on assignment
Narrative systems and services for policy, evaluation, transformation, self-organization, innovation, intelligence and accountability
Discover a new way of management and accountability
Governments, companies and civil society organizations all try to govern. Whether it concerns society, markets, consumer behavior, quality assurance, affordability of care, social domain, political decision-making or influencing public opinion. Almost without exception, laws, rules, procedures, figures, models, certifications, campaigns and other methods are used for this that are supposed to achieve or achieve predetermined goals.
However, this is becoming less and less successful. Laws do not have the intended effect, models are far off the mark, campaigns explode on social media, budgets get out of hand and quality erodes as requirements become stricter and the number of rules increases. The standard response – more administration, more analysis, more data, more supervision and more rules – only makes it worse. Obviously, a radically different control theory is needed
We nee a radically different policy and control theory
The purpose of a system is what it does
Not what it says it does, not what it is expected to do
Narrative solutions for youth, care, society and commerce
StoryConnect provides narrative tailor-made solutions to governments, companies and social organizations. Our specialists have unique knowledge of complexity, narratology, transformation and systems science. Our knowledge and experience is bundled in our StoryCycle approach for developing and supporting applications.
It is first about unlocking what happens in the practices surrounding residents, families, schools, all kinds of care organizations and, of course, companies, chains and networks. We help the insights that emerge from this – further with the help of the SenseCanvas – to develop into all kinds of adjustments and interventions.
The StoryAcademy™ provides keynotes, seminars and training on narrative solutions at every level of expertise and for every audience. From scientific conferences to festivals.
Youth and education
Evaluating youth care and (appropriate) education is essential to gain insight into its significance for children, young people, parents, teachers and care providers. What really happens in families, schools, institutions? And do treatments help? Our applications in youth and education provide answers to these questions and many other questions. This is a good basis for evaluating and shaping policy.
Youthcare
Budgets for youth care are skyrocketing because there is no information that municipalities can use to control the impact on the lives of children, young people and families. Narrative evaluation shows what happens in the practices, in institutions, behind the front door.
Inclusieve education
For the (Dutch) Ministry of Education, Culture and Science we developed a regional approach to increase the case-solving skills of professionals in education. Parents, children, young people, teachers / teachers, compulsory education officials and local administrators are involved in continuously making sense of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of education. Identified solutions are used smartly, barriers are broken down together.
Contact
Erwin Duurland
Businessline Youthcare and education
Social domain
More and more municipalities and regional partnerships are discovering that transformation of the social domain cannot be planned. The transitions (WMO, Youth care and Participation) turned out to be child’s play compared to the transformations that (should) follow.
The way in which municipalities and social services serve the social domain differs greatly. From own organizations to neighborhood teams and from open house constructions to general outsourcing. Everywhere, however, there is a need to have insight into the actual meaning of help and care.
Fortunately, there is a solution. Our applications for neighborhood / resident-oriented work give teams, organizations and municipalities an insight into the significance of public services for residents and aid / care providers. That appears to be essential for initiating and maintaining the desired transformation.
Community work
Many teams, neighborhood teams or municipal teams, struggle to make the turn from production to prevention. Finding a new balance between own strength / direction, legality and optimizing the use of public funds is also only moderately successful without a clear view of which aid and support is doing well and which is not. The neighborhood-oriented application helps to manage the balance between assignment and intention.
Inclusive society
The social domain is broad and international. We developed the narrative monitor for the UN Convention for People with Disabilities, mapped the barriers to education / work / food in Africa and Asia, evaluated the implementation of Duch law on participation and enabled people with a low SES were involved in policy evaluation.
Contact
Marco Koning
Businessline Social domain
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