[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Interactive Planning

Pourdehnad J, 2023, Journal of Systems Thinking 3(1):1-12 — Systems Science

Patterns: [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Explains Russell Ackoff's interactive planning, in which an organization's stakeholders design the future they want and work back to the present.

## What they found (results)

Creating the future means designing a desirable present; because the planning is ongoing and involves the organization's stakeholders, it adapts to changes in the organization itself.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A chapter on Russell Ackoff's interactive planning: a participative process drawing on all stakeholders that works backwards from the future an organization wants to where it is now.

## Abstract

Interactive planning is a participative undertaking drawing upon the skills, insights, and ideas of all stakeholders within an organization. As defined and promoted by Russell L. Ackoff, interactive planning focuses on “creating the future by designing a desirable present,” with the idea in mind that “an organization's future depends at least as much on what it does between now and then, as on what is done to it.” Interactive planning works backwards from where an organization wants to be now to where it is now. Moreover, it is an ongoing process that involves the organization’s stakeholders in the planning process. Interactive planning allows participants to know their organization more closely and, because it is ongoing, can be adapted to changes within the organization itself.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.0000012)