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<center><span style="color:orange;"><h3>Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico redesign our industrial systems for sustainable life.</h3></span></center>
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This is the breakthrough society needs to solve the urgent challenge of expanding economic vitality while preserving our environment.  OnTrackNorthAmerica employs online and in-person IntelliConferences® driven by IntelliSynthesis®, an inquiry-based methodology for information-gathering, brainstorming, and actionable decision-making by large groups of stakeholders. Together, we will redesign our fragmented industrial systems from natural resources, agriculture, and raw materials to production, consumption, and recycling. We will improve the use of railroads, trucks, and waterways to create a balanced multimodal transportation network. OnTrackNorthAmerica’s leaders bring the insight and perspectives acquired from 30+ years of infrastructure advisory work in 45 states and Canadian provinces.
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== What do we mean by industrial systems? ==
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We use the term “industrial systems” to encompass the complete set of commercial, policy, and planning activities involved in delivering materials and products for modern civilization’s survival and satisfaction. Industrial systems include all inputs and impacts, including land use, transportation, recycling, and disposal. What occurs between properties is often as significant as what happens at a property.  
=====We have a challenge ahead of us.=====
Our industrial systems are not optimized for sustainability or profitability. The truth is, neither marketplace dynamics nor vested interest lobbying lead to smart supply chains. From natural resources and agriculture to production, consumption, and recycling, our society must redesign its fragmented industrial systems.  


<h2>What do we mean by redesign?</h2>
=====Why do we need to meet this head-on?=====
Redesigning industrial systems means working together to find and employ ways to increase efficiency and reduce the negative impacts of an industrial system. It begins with stakeholders establishing collective goals and pragmatic measures while recognizing the reality of prior strategies and investments. Redesigning may require the sensible reconstruction, repurposing, and/or relocation of some facilities. For instance, to create the most effective strategic mineral supply chain, we would intentionally locate lithium mines, battery plants, vehicle factories, and recycling facilities to optimize systemwide logistics. We call this design process [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization|"Collaborative Industrial Optimization."]] Redesigning also calls for an inspiring evolution of the human element by incentivizing organizations and individuals to contribute to systemwide sustainability.  
Civilization on a resource-limited planet cannot thrive without a new level of thinking, planning, and investing. Right now, we are missing out on crucial opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability, and profits.
=====How does OnTrackNorthAmerica address this problem?=====
OnTrackNorthAmerica brings stakeholders together to solve problems that single organizations cannot. We facilitate thinking, planning, and investing at the level of “Civilization Engineering” and Industrial Systems Initiatives.


<h2>Who are the stakeholders?</h2>
Individual businesses and political jurisdictions all win from acting as a system. This collaboration and coordination renders everyone smarter. OTNA shines a bright light on the inadequacy of competition to deliver sustainably profitable resource-based industrial activity.      
You are all stakeholders, along with everyone involved in or directly affected by our industrial systems. Developing action plans for sustainable industries requires complete stakeholder representation. OnTrackNorthAmerica has already cataloged over 32,000 stakeholders across North America’s industrial, political, and geographic landscape. And for each Action Plan process we initiate, we will invite additional stakeholders throughout North America to work towards complete representation from all sectors: academia, advocacy, business, community, funders, government, labor, and media.  


<h2>How do we convene stakeholders?</h2>
Explore our [[Industrial Systems Initiatives]] or visit the [[OTNA Curriculum|Curriculum]] section to understand the methodologies that make it work.  
We convene stakeholders in IntelliConference® forums that apply IntelliSynthesis®, our breakthrough question-and-response dialogue method, for efficient input from large groups of diverse stakeholders. We invite participants from all relevant sectors in a given system or region to ensure representation of all perspectives. Each participant agrees to read and respond timely to rounds of questions. The facilitation team creates and shares a digest of each round of responses, saving participants time. Outlier perspectives are considered for the value they may offer the group. The IntelliConference® and IntelliSynthesis® processes are explained in greater detail elsewhere on this website.


<h2>What do we mean by sustainable life?</h2>
===== Welcome to OnTrackNorthAmerica! =====
Sustainable life is the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of humans and nature.
[[OTNA Curriculum|{{Clickable button|<big>Next steps for learning more</big>}}]]
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<h2>What is a Continental Action Plan?</h2>
“Continental” includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which already engage in extensive cross-border commerce and can greatly benefit from improved coordination. Action Plans specific to each industrial system or geography integrate with all other plans, emerging from a process that produces results immediately, distinct from static reports and studies that typically sit on a shelf.
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=====Current IntelliConferences=====
'''[[VitalRail/IntelliConferences/Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merger|Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merger IntelliConference]]'''
=====In-Gear Initiatives=====
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=====Latest News=====
Our founder, Michael Sussman, spoke at the Ottawa, CA gathering of [https://ciltna.com/ The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport North America] and met with the Canadian government to discuss raising supply chain planning to the level of whole industrial systems.


<h2 style="border-bottom:none;"><center><big><b>[[Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry|Enter the Continental Action Plan]]</b></big></h2>
See [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization]].
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Latest revision as of 15:54, 14 January 2026

Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico design sustainable industrial systems that work for everyone.

We have a challenge ahead of us.

Our industrial systems are not optimized for sustainability or profitability. The truth is, neither marketplace dynamics nor vested interest lobbying lead to smart supply chains. From natural resources and agriculture to production, consumption, and recycling, our society must redesign its fragmented industrial systems.

Why do we need to meet this head-on?

Civilization on a resource-limited planet cannot thrive without a new level of thinking, planning, and investing. Right now, we are missing out on crucial opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability, and profits.

How does OnTrackNorthAmerica address this problem?

OnTrackNorthAmerica brings stakeholders together to solve problems that single organizations cannot. We facilitate thinking, planning, and investing at the level of “Civilization Engineering” and Industrial Systems Initiatives.

Individual businesses and political jurisdictions all win from acting as a system. This collaboration and coordination renders everyone smarter. OTNA shines a bright light on the inadequacy of competition to deliver sustainably profitable resource-based industrial activity.      

Explore our Industrial Systems Initiatives or visit the Curriculum section to understand the methodologies that make it work.

Welcome to OnTrackNorthAmerica!

Next steps for learning more


Current IntelliConferences

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merger IntelliConference

In-Gear Initiatives

VitalRail

Latest News

Our founder, Michael Sussman, spoke at the Ottawa, CA gathering of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport North America and met with the Canadian government to discuss raising supply chain planning to the level of whole industrial systems.

See Collaborative Industrial Optimization.

OnTrackNorthAmerica

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1700 Sansom Street, Suite 701

Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA

Phone: +1 215-564-3004

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