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A fast diagnostic for clarity, alignment, and momentum.

The Systems Sprint Map is a diagnostic tool that quickly surfaces where your team or organization is stuck—and where alignment is possible. It’s designed for moments of transition, pivots, and overloaded strategy cycles, when everyone is busy but progress feels unclear.

In a short, structured sprint, we map the system around your challenge: what’s driving it, what’s blocking it, and what levers could unlock movement—without defaulting to another long strategy retreat.

Best for: leadership teams, funders, coalitions, and program teams facing complexity, uncertainty, or competing priorities.

What it does

• Pinpoints the real constraint (not just the loudest symptom)
• Reveals misalignments across people, incentives, resources, and decisions
• Clarifies what must be true for progress
• Identifies the smallest set of high-leverage shifts to test next

When to use it

• Leadership transition or new mandate
• Program pivot or strategy refresh under time pressure
• “Too many priorities” and unclear trade-offs
• Cross-team friction, slow decisions, or delivery drift
• A quick, shared diagnosis before resourcing

The Systems Sprint Map process (4 steps)

1) Define the stuck point

We name the challenge precisely: what’s happening, what “good” looks like, and what’s at stake.

2) Map the system

We map actors, decision flows, incentives, constraints, and feedback loops shaping the problem.

3) Identify leverage points

We isolate where small changes could produce outsized impact—policy, process, roles, resources, narratives.

4) Align on moves

We translate the map into: key choices, immediate experiments, owners, and a short action path.

Outputs you get

• A clear Systems Sprint Map (visual and narrative)
• A stuck-point diagnosis and what’s driving it
• 3–6 leverage points worth acting on
• A 90-day action pathway
• A short alignment memo you can share internally

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