Ecocycle Planning

Phases

Mission-driven identification of new ideas and improving the conditions for their successful development.
Outcome-oriented development of a pattern of working together and identification of required processes and structures for pilot projects and activities.
Standardization of organizational or program practices, structures and patterns of working together, focused on impact, performance measures and sustainability.
Value-based dismantling of activities, processes, systems and patterns of working together, which no longer meet their purpose, in order to create space for new energy, vision, relationships and directions to emerge.

Traps

The organization is unwilling to change or dismantle an approach that no longer fits the evolving context in which they operate.

The organization struggles to create new activities due to a real or perceived lack of resources (e.g. financial, human resources, organizational capacity).

Although this resource has been developed as a result of needs and opportunities identified through the COVID-19 pandemic, Ecocycle Planning is an important tool that can be used for ongoing planning, both annual and multi-year, that allows organizations to include all four phases of development in the planning process.