
This is where the rubber hits the road. As you prepare to implement your strategy, you will need to evaluate your staff capacity, clarify roles and responsibilities, draft a workplan and budget, use good project management principles to guide your work, and continue to build your stakeholders’ engagement.

(ALL INTERNAL AND LIMITED EXTERNAL RIGHTS) Passion Pictures crew film Samburu warriors digging wells for their cattle in Sara Conservancy in Northern Kenya for “Earth — A New Wild”. Photo credit: © Ami Vitale
I have found this article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review to be a useful resource as I think about how to foster and maintain effective collaborations, which will be necessary to achieve most if not all of our systems change goals. It includes a case study of the Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network which was formed in late 2014. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/cutting_through_the_complexity_a_roadmap_for_effective_collaboration