ICTlogy

22/08/2023

Managing complexity for systemic impact: responses to VUCA and BANI environments

In recent decades, the acronyms VUCA and, more recently, BANI have become popular to describe the environments in which we live and work. But, beyond describing the situation or environment as VUCA or BANI, can we do anything about it? How can we change our way of managing projects or promoting impactful public policies? We have compiled below a set of emerging methodologies that allow us to move from theory to practice, from fear to action.

Table of contents

• New environments: VUCA & BANI
• VUCA
• BANI
• Managing complexity for systemic impact
• Stakeholder analysis, naming, sensing, framing
• Systems (systems analysis)
• Foresight, futures
• Outcome mapping
• Theory of Change
• Portfolio-based approach
• Participation, facilitation, design thinking
• Ecosystems

New environments: VUCA & BANI

VUCA

VUCA appears with the end of the Cold War, with globalization, with the digital revolution, with the financialization of the Economy. Adapting theories on leadership from Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, it proposes that we increasingly operate in environments:

• Volatile: the dynamics of change are accelerated and the stages of the situations are short-lived;
• Uncertain: it is increasingly difficult to predict the future (and science ...

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