City of Fürth

Free of suffocating financial burden in 3.5 days thanks to revolutionary social technology

Using the innovative Malik Syntegration® method, the City of Fürth started out on a journey of deep financial and functional restructuring in July 2010 that has been more successful than anyone could ever have imagined. In just 3.5 days, 32 key city administrators applied tools of the Syntegration method to find new responses to an urgent challenge the city had spent several years attempting to face – its pressing financial situation and ensuing erosion.

The Fürth example is so interesting in part due to the fact that even years later we can see the highly persuasive – you could even say sensational – consequences of the Syntegration. The key question for the Syntegration process was as follows:

“Beginning from today, what has to be done so that the City of Fürth can re-establish its ability to function in all areas and, thereby, manage to effectively and durably eliminate the existing deficit and balance the administrative budget by 2013?”

Overview of results:
› From threatening insolvency to a new ability to invest within the space of two years
› Seemingly unachievable government savings mandates over-fulfilled at 153 percent
› New measures to counteract financial emergency developed in-house in just 3.5 days
› Budget deficit permanently reduced by 48 percent
› Budget consolidation thanks to previously nonexistent cooperation
›  70 percent of measures developed in 2010 already successfully implemented after seven months
› 80 percent of supplementary measures agreed in 2011 realized within another twelve months
› A sensational 60 percent of newly identified budgetary relief realized after two years
› Difference of opinion between the parties successfully ended
› Optimism instead of resignation; confidence instead of hopelessness
› Maximum consensus among those involved
› Consequently, significant increase in city council decisiveness
› Led to unanimous, fast, and correct decision making within the city bodies
› Innovative cybernetic regulatory system developed for the city and city administration
› City has a new ability to function more effciently at every level
› New positive awareness of a groundbreaking shift in society
› Exemplary, successful, dynamic public governance
› Satisfaction among all participants higher than 90 percent
› No costs because the Syntegration process pays for itself
›  More about the Syntegration in Fürth