Change Management– Vision Narrative

Background: As a problem map helps to make people more aware of the problematic situation which may involve them, a sustainability transition can also be enabled through a map of a better way. Sometimes, people do not know that a better way could be possible until you explain an alternative for them to consider. When utilizing a change management process that begins by identifying the problem at hand, an effective change manager’s second step is to create a vision narrative.
You can think of a vision narrative as the inverse of a problem map. A vision narrative will describe a new complex situation that arises due to changing some of the root causes, which alters the activities and infrastructures that arise from them. This new system can be expected to produce new outcomes. Hopefully, this distribution of outcomes will be designed to be fairer and more manageable, than the current situation. In that way, you have helped the stakeholder envision a better world.

The topic for the vision map is income inequality in America. Using the provided diagram as a model to map an ideal situation, replacing the generic categories in the text boxes with more positive contributing factors and outcomes related to the situation you are studying. Refer to the reference attached on Leading Sustainability Transformations for more information about each factor.

In addition, write a brief narrative (no more than a page) to describe how the situation would operate. Tell your audience (someone who sees your diagram, who is likely to be experiencing the situation) what the diagram is depicting. That is, explain the new, positive root causes, how they influence the actors, which more positive activities the actors do or which productive infrastructures they build, and how they impact stakeholders in more positive or fairer ways. Challenge yourself to minimize the negative impacts and to formulate a situation that is positive in all five of Wiek’s dimensions of impacts.

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