Making
Impact
The 'Why' behind Polyloop, our mission driven product with people and social impact at it's center.
The 'Why' behind Polyloop, our mission driven product with people and social impact at it's center.
The world feels broken,
and it’s only getting worse...
The world feels broken,
and it’s only getting worse...
What’s the most pressing challenge of our time? There are certainly plenty to choose from: Climate change, Inequality, Political Instability, Healthcare stress, Skills shortage, Ageing infrastructure, Biodiversity Loss.
We live in a world of urgent, high profile and planetary-scale challenges that in recent years have felt almost insurmountable; global, connected and with severe short and long term consequences.
“Unless we make the transitions necessary, we are going to lose what we understand by our civilisation over the coming decades”
- Sir David King
“Unless we make the transitions necessary, we are going to lose what we understand by our civilisation over the coming decades”
- Sir David King
The world feels broken, and it’s only getting worse...
What’s the most pressing challenge of our time? There are certainly plenty to choose from: Climate change, Inequality, Political Instability, Healthcare stress, Skills shortage, Ageing infrastructure, Biodiversity Loss.
We live in a world of urgent, high profile and planetary-scale challenges that in recent years have felt almost insurmountable; global, connected and with severe short and long term consequences.
“Unless we make the transitions necessary, we are going to lose what we understand by our civilisation over the coming decades”
- Sir David King
We’ve created a system of siloes to tackle global interconnected challenges.
Our approach to deal with these global challenges has been to create specialised organisations and departments.
These silos exist at a local, national and global level. They’re great for building expertise on a specific subject matter or challenge area, but not so great at sharing outcomes and tackling interconnected challenges on multiple scales.
“We live in a society that likes to put things in boxes. So many of us work in siloed organizations that make it very difficult to adapt or collaborate.”
- van der Bijl-Brouwer
“We live in a society that likes to put things in boxes. So many of us work in siloed organizations that make it very difficult to adapt or collaborate.”
- van der Bijl-Brouwer
“We live in a society that likes to put things in boxes. So many of us work in siloed organizations that make it very difficult to adapt or collaborate.”
- van der Bijl-Brouwer
Simplifying the narrative -
an abundance of data;
a scarcity of insight.
Simplifying the narrative -
an abundance of data;
a scarcity of insight.
Simplifying the narrative -
an abundance of data;
a scarcity of insight.
We think the narrative can be simplified to help tackle some of these seemingly insurmountable challenges.
It’s a narrative that uses our abundance of data to put people at the centre of the solutions to our challenges.
We think the narrative can be simplified to help tackle some of these seemingly insurmountable challenges.
It’s a narrative that uses our abundance of data to put people at the centre of the solutions to our challenges.
“The planet is fine.
The people are fucked”
- George Carlin
What is the most
pressing challenge
of our time?
What is the most
pressing challenge
of our time?
We think its the
governance, management
and monitoring of
our goals and ambitions.
What is the most
pressing challenge
of our time?
We think its the governance, management and monitoring of our goals and ambitions.
And we think there are 4 fundamental pillars
to help reframe the narrative:
We think its the governance, management and monitoring of our goals and ambitions.
And we think there are 4 fundamental pillars to help reframe the narrative:
Not siloed:
Nested.
We don’t operate in linear silos, our governance sits within a nested system from scale and sector: individual to household to community to country to global, which all sits within an environmental system.
One change in any area has knock on effects across all areas. We must understand the whole system to deliver change across the layers.
Not hierarchical:
Balanced.
Governance isn’t a static, hierarchical structure, it is a state of flow, constantly trying to find a balance between divergent chaos and convergent structure.
We should learn to embrace this state of flow and strive for balance for long term resilience.
Not predictable:
Prepared.
Predicting the future is almost impossible, but we can be prepared for unpredictable things that happen at the messy intersection of the coming together of parts.
Sometimes we don’t know what will happen…and that’s ok. The sum is always greater than the parts.
Not more:
Different.
Our current system rewards ‘efficiency’; arriving at the same or better outcome for reduced inputs (time, resource, money).
We advocate for different, not more. For multi-solving challenges. Not just seeking to reduce costs for the same result but looking at multiplying the benefits.
And we think there are 4 fundamental pillars
to help reframe the narrative:
Not siloed:
Nested.
We don’t operate in linear silos, our governance sits within a nested system from scale and sector: individual to household to community to country to global, which all sits within an environmental system.
One change in any area has knock on effects across all areas. We must understand the whole system to deliver change across the layers.
Not hierarchical:
Balanced.
Governance isn’t a static, hierarchical structure, it is a state of flow, constantly trying to find a balance between divergent chaos and convergent structure.
We should learn to embrace this state of flow and strive for balance for long term resilience.
Not predictable:
Prepared.
Predicting the future is almost impossible, but we can be prepared for unpredictable things that happen at the messy intersection of the coming together of parts.
Sometimes we don’t know what will happen…and that’s ok. The sum is always greater than the parts.
Not more:
Different.
Our current system rewards ‘efficiency’; arriving at the same or better outcome for reduced inputs (time, resource, money).
We advocate for different, not more. For multi-solving challenges. Not just seeking to reduce costs for the same result but looking at multiplying the benefits.
The theory is great,
so what?
The theory is great,
so what?
The theory is great, so what?
We believe we can break out of our silos and start to create some of the vision we have outlined.
Polyloop is an innovation house for regenerative governance and we’re starting to put the theory to practice through standardising policies and plans, mapping shared connections and outcomes, monitoring impact, and closing the loop of the policy life-cycle through KPI feedback.
We believe we can break out of our silos and start to create some of the vision we have outlined.
Polyloop is an innovation house for regenerative governance and we’re starting to put the theory to practice through standardising policies and plans, mapping shared connections and outcomes, monitoring impact, and closing the loop of the policy life-cycle through KPI feedback.
We believe we can break out of our silos and start to create some of the vision we have outlined.
Polyloop is an innovation house for regenerative governance and we’re starting to put the theory to practice through standardising policies and plans, mapping shared connections and outcomes, monitoring impact, and closing the loop of the policy life-cycle through KPI feedback.
Start by Starting!
There's some big challenges outlined.
And we won’t get all the big calls right.
But PolyLoop was born from failure.
So we believe only by trying, failing and trying again will we finally move the dial on tackling some of the greatest challenges of our time.
Fail with us.
We can’t tackle the greatest challenges of our time alone. And we certainly can’t in silos.
So we’re calling all changemakers; artists, technologists, researchers, strategists, designers, makers, doers. Public or private. Big organisation or small.
Join us.
The world feels broken,
and it’s only getting worse...
What’s the most pressing challenge of our time? There are certainly plenty to choose from: Climate change, Inequality, Political Instability, Healthcare stress, Skills shortage, Ageing infrastructure, Biodiversity Loss.
We live in a world of urgent, high profile and planetary-scale challenges that in recent years have felt almost insurmountable; global, connected and with severe short and long term consequences.
“Unless we make the transitions necessary, we are going to lose what we understand by our civilisation over the coming decades”
- Sir David King
We’ve created a system of siloes to tackle global interconnected challenges.
Our approach to deal with these global challenges has been to create specialised organisations and departments.
These silos exist at a local, national and global level. They’re great for building expertise on a specific subject matter or challenge area, but not so great at sharing outcomes and tackling interconnected challenges on multiple scales.
“We live in a society that likes to put things in boxes. So many of us work in siloed organizations that make it very difficult to adapt or collaborate.”
- van der Bijl-Brouwer