Same Day Service - Draft Outcomes Created for New NZ Ministry Announced Today

This morning the setting up of the new NZ Ministry of Cities, Environment, Regions, and Transport (MCERT) was announced. By afternoon, I had built a draft outcomes diagram for it.

Helping governments move faster

Governments traditionally have tended to work slowly, but does it have to be that way? The NZ Government announced today it is merging the Ministry for the Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Transport, and local government functions into one new ministry: MCERT. It will be fully operational by July 2026. The government will be wanting to move fast on setting this up.

I built a speculative DoView strategy diagram for the new Ministry on the same day. You can see it at DoViewPlanning.Org/a050.

The point isn’t that my draft is perfect—it’s obviously speculative and built from limited public information. The point is the speed. A draft visual blueprint of what this new ministry might be trying to achieve, showing the connections between housing affordability, infrastructure, climate adaptation, transport, and environmental outcomes—all mapped out in one drill-down diagram the same day the ministry was announced.

Getting strategy out of people’s heads and on paper fast

This demonstrates what DoView Planning enables: getting strategy out of people’s heads and scattered documents into a visual form fast enough to actually be useful during planning, not months later when decisions have already been made.

For those planning MCERT: Perhaps this draft DoView might assist in some way in the work that is going into setting up the Ministry. You can download the PowerPoint version, amend it, build it out with your actual priorities and strategies. Or use the AI DoView Drawing Prompt to create a different draft from your internal planning documents if you feel that this one does not capture the vision for the new Ministry.

For other government agencies and organizations: Notice what just happened here. A new ministry combining four major functions across housing, environment, transport and regions, and a draft outcomes model exists the same day. This is the speed advantage DoView Planning provides. When your organization needs to pivot strategy, merge functions, or communicate complex initiatives quickly, visual outcomes diagrams let you move at the pace modern governance demands.

This draft is just an illustration of the approach, but the speed of its creation shows how DoView Planning can help governments move faster and it is essential that they work out how to do this in this time of super-fast disruptive change.

This is part of my mission to build a proof of concept DoView model of the whole of the NZ government to demonstrate how any government can quickly build a full visual model of its high-level outcomes which can be drilled-down to immediately see what individual government agencies are doing. The NZ Whole-of-Government DoView is at DoViewPlanning.Org/NZDoview.

See the draft DoView for MCERT at: DoViewPlanning.Org/a050