Creating the futures we desire ‐ getting the whole system into the room: part I Available to Purchase

For our organisations to flourish, they need to engage the intelligence, creativity and energy of the whole workforce and involve all stakeholders. One way of doing this is to use whole system approaches to planning and implementing change and what have come to be known as large‐group methods. This article, the first of two parts, makes a case for these approaches and describes the major benefits, outlines their history and describes two well‐tried methods: future search and open space technology.