Part of the power of the IFF World Model is that it can be applied at all scales – from family to community to organisation to nation to globe. Ultimately viability must be found at all levels.
The model can be used as a framework for scanning and diagnosing the current complex of global challenges. One can then consider the prospects for a project, a programme or an intention in light of the model. This can be strong medicine – a journey through the current state of each of the twelve factors has a cumulative impact. But it is also curative: once the non-viability of our current situation is seen more clearly, without avoiding or denying the issues, the question naturally arises “is there a viable alternative?”
It is here that combining the IFF Three Horizons approach with the systematic discipline of the World Model proves particularly powerful.
The model is also the foundation for more sophisticated systems analysis which can enable us, for example, to make estimates of future developments. In this sense the ‘mental model’ becomes the basis for developing models in the technical and mathematical sense.
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