Despite and often because of attention from large corporations, philanthropic groups, and government, entrenched problems like inequality between communities and demographic groups, the difference in access to capital (liquidity) between companies of different sizes, access escalating healthcare costs, gaps in the quality of healthcare from region-to-region and group-to-group, and the mental and physical stress of aging and elder care continue to escalate, not decline.

 

Traditional efforts to solve I-SEPs fail because problems solvers adopt a first-order approach - in an effort to maintain the status quo, they improve the current systems and methods of operation under the impression that making existing processes will change the results.

Current systems and methods of operation often are, in fact, a primary contributor to I-SEPs. Improving them simply makes communities and organization better at doing the wrong things - and, in turn, exacerbates I-SEPs instead of solving them or reducing their negative impact.

 

BEX takes second-order approach. We begin assignments by identifying the metrics solutions must achieve and in what communities and organizations results must occur. We follow this metric-centric design approach by developing the new systems and methods of operation required to achieve these results.

 

Instead of improving and perpetuating outdated, ineffective systems and methods of operation, we eliminate them and replace them with new systems and methods of operation (new infrastructure) that produce the metric-centric results required to develop lasting solutions - regardless of whose ox get gored.