Neither promises to solve wicked problems. Both help you work inside them — reflexively, with stakeholders at the centre, and with the standing question built in: what if we're wrong?
Framework and model are the same system —
this page explains it; the model lets you test it.
Linear if-then logic models assume the world holds still. It doesn't. The What If workflow replaces prediction with reflexive scenario-thinking across four temporal phases.
Map stakeholders, surface assumptions, identify paradoxes — then plan to navigate them, not erase them.
Monitor immediate responses with openness to surprise. Document what you didn't expect.
Read evolving trends and stakeholder shifts — including the patterns that contradict each other.
Distinguish what changed (social impact) from what it meant to those affected (social value).
Good strategy works both ways. Check your assumptions. Test your alignment.
Not a second framework — the framework, made operable. It opens on its own screen so there is room to work: put a real problem through T0–T3, test your assumptions, and take the record away with you.
The playable version of the framework. Practise strategy. Sharpen judgement. Explore futures.
Play the game →Read the peer-reviewed article: “A metamodern public relations workflow for the polycrisis” — Public Relations Review (2025)