Yvoke · Systemic Strategy
Climate, supply chains, regulation, public trust.
We help leadership figure out what to do next.
Core concepts
The shock arrives and the lights stay on. Liquidity through a credit crunch. Continue production through a port closure. Each blow is absorbed because someone designed for it before the weather turned.
Resilience is a more fundamental performance goal than growth; one can exist without the other, but not the reverse. Growth without resilience is a casino with bad odds.
We have worked on resilience analysis and strategy for twenty-five years. Let us help you rethink your position.
Each year ends with more soil under the supply chain than the year before. Waste becomes feedstock. The factory leaves the watershed better than it found it. The company training supports staff to lead a more balanced and healthy life.
Most companies plan around extracting less. Regeneration starts from a different question: what would it take to leave every place better than you found it? The answer often reshapes the business model, and the new model often works better than the old one, not just in terms of cash, but also in terms of broad value.
We developed over 700 projects helping organizations figure out what regeneration means in their context. Let us help you find your answer.
Most organizations optimize parts while the system around them shifts and reorganizes. The consequences are predictable, and costly.
Those in positions of responsibility can no longer afford to think in last century's terms. Systemic strategy means reading the organization, its supply chain, its market, and the natural and political forces around it as one connected whole. Find the smallest move that shifts the largest variable, then sequence those moves and tie each to a measurable outcome.
That is the architecture of a resilient roadmap.
Those who control the connections between things control the things themselves.
The object-oriented era is ending. The future belongs to those who understand networks: how systems link, where they break, and which small interventions produce large effects.
The practice
We are a team of senior specialists in systemic strategy, regeneration, resilience, and innovation, operating globally.
Each has spent two decades or more building transition strategies, reshaping operating models, and navigating the organizational complexity that comes with genuine transformation.
Between us, we have contributed books, papers, and conference presentations across the field. We speak because we have things to say.
We work across industries: manufacturing, finance, agriculture, urban development, consumer goods, and public sector.
The organizations that come to us share one characteristic. They have recognized that the strategies that built their position are no longer sufficient for the world they now operate in. That recognition is where useful work begins.
Engagements range from focused advisory sprints to longer involvements, internal roles, and embedded strategy partnerships. The right format depends on what the organization actually needs, which is usually the first thing we figure out together.
Systemic principles
Complex systems follow patterns. Drawn from 25 years of applied systems work, we found systemic rules that shape every strategy that works in an uncertain future.
Examples of systemic rules:
Applied work
Twenty-five years of systemic strategy across sectors, scales, and geographies.
Supply chain catalyst
IKEA asked Except to make their 200-million-copy catalogue more sustainable without changing it. What followed was a year of systems mapping that transformed the global print industry.
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Circular transition
A three-year engagement mapping Heineken's full material system to design a circular transition roadmap across 170 breweries.
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Systemic grantmaking
Systemic grantmaking strategy for smallholder farmers in central Africa and India. System maps, co-creation workshops, strategic framework for adaptive funding decisions.
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Sustainability roadmap
Comprehensive sustainability strategy using SiD framework. Leadership training, co-creation workshop in Ho Chi Minh City. 15-year roadmap across energy, water, biodiversity, and community.
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Sector transformation
Sector-wide circular economy roadmap for the Dutch carpet industry with MODINT and DNV. System mapping of material flows, recycling and bio-based pathways through 2030.
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Systemic vision
A vision for sustainability that reimagines how we live, work, produce, play, and prosper. Systemic change across policy and business strategy.
Read the full caseWe cannot impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.
Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
If you are working through something complicated and want a second pair of eyes on it, we are happy to talk before anyone signs anything.
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