THE METHOD
How we turn a contested problem into an owned strategy.
Our method combines systems thinking, Group Model Building and delivery discipline into a single, repeatable framework
- configured for each engagement, never sold as a fixed package.
FIRST PRINCIPLES
Before the modules, the principles. These are the choices that separate a strategy an organisation delivers from a report it shelves.
Three commitments that make the work different.
Diagnose structure, not symptoms
Principle 01
Persistent problems are produced by feedback structures. We map those structures explicitly, so interventions act on the cause and the problem stops returning.
Your people build it
Principle 02
Through Group Model Building, your own leaders and experts construct the analysis. Ownership is not requested at the end; it is built in from the first session.
Design for delivery
Principle 03
Insight is not a strategy. Every engagement ends in targets, owners, trajectories, and routines our own delivery discipline that keeps execution on course.
THE FRAMEWORK· EIGHT MODULES
From the first workshop to a plan the board can approve.
Each module builds on the last. At scoping we configure the sequence and depth for your problem but the logic never changes:
no interventions before hypotheses, no hypotheses before analysis, no analysis before an agreed problem.
01 Problem Definition
The engagement opens with the sponsor’s mandate and a facilitated aspiration-setting session. Using the Iceberg Model, the team moves from the visible events that triggered the work, to the patterns beneath them, to the structures generating the patterns, and finally to the mental models holding those structures in place converging on a single, shared problem statement.
Iceberg Model
Hopes & fears
KEY OUPUT
Aspiration setting
Agreed problem statement & aspiration
02 Systems Analysis
Participants nominate the variables that matter, sketch how each has behaved over time, and map the causal links between them. Building a full causal loop diagram of their own system. Reinforcing and balancing loops are named and the map is tested against classic systems archetypes to reveal known structures and their traps.
KEY OUPUT
Validated causal loop diagram & archetype diagnosis
Causal loop diagrams
Behaviour-over-time
Systems archetypes
03 Hypothesis Development
Structural insight is translated into explicit, testable strategic hypotheses in the hypothesis-driven tradition of top-tier strategy practice. Each hypothesis states its logic, its assumptions and the evidence that would confirm or kill it so the strategy rests on argument, not assertion.
Hypothesis-driven method
Kill criteria
KEY OUPUT
Hypothesis set with supporting logic
Root-cause synthesis
04 Issue Analysis
Each priority hypothesis is decomposed into a mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) issue tree, converting a systemic idea into a set of specific, answerable questions. Issues and candidate actions are prioritised by impact and feasibility through structured, transparent voting on the platform.
KEY OUPUT
Prioritised issue trees & analysis plan
MECE issue trees
Impact–feasibility
Structured voting
05 Theory of Change
Each priority hypothesis is decomposed into a mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) issue tree, converting a systemic idea into a set of specific, answerable questions. Issues and candidate actions are prioritised by impact and feasibility through structured, transparent voting on the platform.
Impact pathway
Assumption mapping
Results chain
KEY OUPUT
Theory of change /
impact pathway
07 Delivery Planning
Delivery is planned through our proprietary delivery discipline: the aspiration is translated into a small number of measurable targets with explicit trajectories; the delivery chain from decision to front line is mapped and its weak links identified; ownership is made unambiguous; and delivery routines are established to keep execution on course.
KEY OUPUT
Delivery routines
Structured delivery plan
Targets & trajectories
Delivery chains
06 Interventions
Candidate interventions are classified and selected by systemic leverage — from parameters and buffers to information flows, rules, goals, and paradigms. The portfolio is deliberately weighted toward higher-leverage change, with quick wins retained to build momentum.
KEY OUPUT
Quick wins
Prioritised intervention portfolio
Leverage-point analysis
Portfolio design
08 MEL Design
Finally, the team defines the indicators that flow directly from the theory of change, the learning questions the organisation will keep asking, and the review cadence and adaptation mechanism — so the strategy is actively managed and improved as evidence arrives, not filed and forgotten
KEY OUPUT
Outcome indicators
Learning questions
Review cadence
Monitoring, evaluation & learning framework
HOW IT RUNS?
The framework is delivered through a structured consultation — we scope with your leadership, design the programme around your problem, then develop and validate the strategy.
A consultation, delivered in five stages
STAGE 1
Scope
We meet your leadership to understand the problem, the aspiration, and the strategic document you need.
STAGE 2
Design
We configure the modules, cohort, duration, and cost — and confirm them before any workshop.
STAGE 3
Develop
Your selected team builds the strategy with us through the eight-module Lab (Phase 1).
STAGE 4
Validate
Top management reviews and endorses the findings at a structured Open Day (Phase 2).
STAGE 5
Finalise
We deliver the final strategic document and your complete knowledge record.
LIVE DOCUMENTATION
Every contribution, captured and kept.
The method is instrumented. Binaskil's in-house facilitation platform records the analysis as your people build it — so drafting is fast and faithful, and you keep a complete record of your organisation's own thinking
CAPTURED LIVE, IN THE WORKSHOP
01
Live capture
Variables, causal links, hypotheses, votes, and feedback — recorded as they are made.
02
Structure
Inputs organised against the framework, traceable from the first module to the final document
03
Compilation
Consulting-grade documentation assembled at each stage — weeks of write-up eliminated.
04
Knowledge asset
A complete compendium of your people's analysis, yours to keep and reuse.