Stravaig:

specialists in systems, strategy and teams.

We are members of the NZ All-of-Government consultancy panel. When you choose to work with us, you can be confident that we’re trusted, that we understand both the private and public sectors, and that we deliver.

Human

Systems

This is our thing……

Every day, we are all faced with hundreds of decisions that occur as part of individual participation in multiple systems that we are part of.

In our natural world, we are born into systems; we live in systems, work in systems, spend our leisure time in systems, and think in systems. We call these systems family, society, community, projects, teams or organisations.

These human systems perform in predictable ways. Knowing how these human systems work is helpful if we want to change their performance, direction, or other characteristics.

This is what we do: we are systems and change specialists.

We have decades of experience working in and with systems and showing teams and organisations how to make an effective and lasting system change. We bring a behavioural psychology lens to this work, ensuring that we focus on how people think and operate in systems and make this behavioural aspect a core element of all our work.

Your context is unique. We take time to understand your challenges, issues, and opportunities - and select approaches or methods that work for you.

Our goal is to help you achieve what you need to achieve and leave you with the capability needed to continue your journey by yourself. We design true, non-dependent approaches from the beginning of any engagement.

We do not advocate fads or quick fixes, such as Agile, Lean, or Six Sigma-type approaches, often held up as solutions. We know these approaches have their uses — e.g., in ICT, manufacturing, and engineering; however, we have never found them helpful in building culture, changing practices, or addressing issues of human complexity, systems, or communication.

Our Approach

What we do

  • Our systems practice covers both capability building and human-systems design.

    We use an approach developed and refined over many years, our “system shift” framework. This framework has five phases of iterative activity, starting with ‘direction’ and ending with ‘intervention design and implementation’.

  • Our approach to strategy is simple and effective, based on decades of experience working with and designing strategic approaches and plans.

    As with all of our work, our Strategy practice is based on a systems model that we call a “strategy system”.

  • Every team is a complex system with connections, relationships, and patterns of performance and communication. Often, team performance is impacted by a series of unhelpful system patterns—whether this is a lack of performance, relationship stresses, or communication issues. This is where we can help, stepping in and working longside you.

    Our work with teams is grounded in the psychology of family-systems models of communication and interaction, strengths-based approaches and capability development.

    We are delighted to be the regional partners for Assessing in Action. In addition to using their team dynamics profiles, we also train and certify practitioners in their use.

  • As practitioners in the systems domain, we work with complex human systems.

    The field of complexity science has made huge advances in the last two decades, and the evolution of the work from Professor Dave Snowden has been an integral part of our work over this period.

    Our relationship with Dave and Cynefin has strengthened over the years. We have a deep understanding of the Cynefin methods and frameworks (now referred to as the Cynefin ecosystem) and how to apply and use these in practice.

  • Launching in May 2024, our unique product - drop us a line if you want to know more.