Systems methodology characterizes IMI's overarching framework in defining problems and designing solutions. It is designed to help clients achieve lasting and order-of-magnitude improvements in their strategies, structures, and operations.

The methodology is systemic and expansive in the sense that,

a) no problem can be defined without defining the context and the interrelated system of problems in which it is embedded,

b) no system of problems can be dissolved without re-designing the whole of which it is a part.

Design, or redesign, therefore, is systemic solutions to systemic sets of problems. It lies at the core of IMI's systemic approach to the development of any organized effort, be it a family, a community, a corporation or a national policy formulation. The methodology allows re-modeling backward from an idealized state and approximating forward from the status quo.

In this context IMI's focus is truly professional. It is application-oriented. It serves as a trans-disciplinary cross-skilled platform for knowledge workers, industry leaders, and consultants to closely partner in charting out the critical interfaces between the state-of-the-art knowledge and emerging management challenges. Thus the meeting ground synthesizes and operationalizes a constant stream of new knowledge in response to the pressing and emerging needs of management.