Facilitating solutions where lived experience meets decision-making to impact the six conditions of systems change: policies, practices, resource flows, relationships and connections, power dynamics, and mental models.
Research at the organizational, municipal, state, regional, and national levels
Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
End User/Participant Journey Mapping
Best Practices Reviews
Actor and Systems Mapping
Group Model Building
Online, Mail, and Telephone Surveys
Organizational Data Analysis
Data visualization and dissemination
Collective Impact Tools
Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Focus Groups and Interviews
How Does Change Work?
The systems thinking paradigm guides how our team seeks to understand problems and works to create structural, relational, and transformative change.
In affiliation with the Social Science
Research Center of Mississippi State University, our unit has the technical skills to help agencies and organizations better understand and address the complex problems they face.
The Systems Change Lab is a division of both the Office of Research and Economic Development and the Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine at MSU and receives support from the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station.