Christoph Hinske

Saxion University of Applied Sciences · School of Finance & Accounting

Making high-quality decisions in complex situations requires more than just knowing the conducive or inhibitive factors defining the probabilities of our success. Riding the complexity wave asks us to understand how these factors interrelate, form dynamics and how our fundamental emotions and belief systems influence our decisions. Taking on this r...

The efficient management of water, energy and food (WEF) resources is a significant challenge that stretches across disciplinary, institutional, and geographical boundaries. In such research challenges, traditional scientific systems and the reward mechanisms associated with them may not function optimally. Moreover, as this is a space dealing with...

The following three reflective summaries were compiled by the students of the M.Sc. Study Program Global Change Management in Eberswalde Germany. Three student teams were asked to summarise and reflect what they heard during the virtual panel discussion and ideation session. The three versions have not been brought together but left separate, thus...

MASTER THESIS FOR THE M.SC. PROGRAM GLOBAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT TRIPLE-LOOP LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -21 st century competences of global-change agents to facilitate third-order change. -- For the first time in Earth’s history, humanity has become a driving force for ecosystem transformation on a global scale. Non-harmon...

In 2015, we were invited by the Minister of State in charge of private sector development and public private partnerships in Ghana to share work and research we conducted in more than two dozen countries on how positive economic deviants can help economies to leapfrog towards the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...

This research with 22 people across 18 countries on three continents was supported by the Institute for Strategic Clarity and the German Environment Agency's UBA. Individuals and groups in different cultures face situations of change in fundamental agreements daily, addressing complex and large-scale social issues, as well as daily dysfunctional i...

The following article gives an overview of studying economic deviance and how to scale and multiply this phenomenon. A state-level case study describes the successful transformation towards post-economic high performance, and a possible Ghanaian approach is outlined. Thus, this article intends to show pathways of action that finds and uses innovat...

Large-scale problems require paradigm-shifting change processes. Whether facilitators are tackling climate change, organizational transformations, poverty reduction, or ecosystem degradation, they must be capable of partnering with others to lead fundamental shifts rather than simply surface-level fixes. How can we enable people to enact fundamen...