First Organizing Step: Office of Integration

In our fragmented and silo structured communities, integrating the diverse interests, capabilities, needs and power bases is the first step toward designing a social system that includes the core value needs of it constituents. These social structures do not exist yet, so building one will feel much like walking across a bridge as it gets built.

The first job will be to train and staff the Office of Integration (IO) with the “right” people. These people will demonstrate a high degree of experienced based learning; quick processing of feedback; competence at recalibrating their state of being and associated actions; an ability to take independent initiative and work in a highly collaborative environment. They are systems thinkers whom enthusiastically take responsibility for (at least) the following 7 functions:

1. Map out resources and capability (hereafter referred to as: everything) with the county- creating an AS IS image of county living
2. Understand how everything organizes itself
3. Establish Trust and Respect within (CAPI) Coalescing of the Authority, Power, and Influence as it exists within the county today
1. Sponsor data and information across all domains sharing summits on relevant to a single topic
4. Support the creation of Vision of what the county can become – creating a TO BE image of county living
5. Establish a Vital Signs Monitor to: diagnose the health our social system, prescribe interventions, identify the next initiatives and design support structures
   
6. Connect everything to everything else
7. Administer a list of projects to move from AS IS to TO BE
1. Broken down by tasks
2. Delegated to the appropriate everything