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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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OnTrackNorthAmerica has created the Continental Action Plans for Sustainable Industry (CAPSI). CAPSI's goal is to support professional stakeholders redesigning industries to advance economic prosperity while preserving our natural world. To do this we organize and produce Industry Action Plans (IAPs). VitalRail is our first IAP.
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The work is all about collaboration. CAPSI employs an inquiry-based methodology for information-gathering, brainstorming, and actionable decision-making by large groups of stakeholders. Together, stakeholders redesign our fragmented industrial systems from natural resources, agriculture, and raw materials to production, distribution, consumption, and recycling. In the case of VitalRail, railroads are the valuable backbone of support for 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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=====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, agriculture, and raw materials to production, consumption, and recycling, our society can redesign its fragmented industrial systems.  


== What do we mean by industrial systems? ==
=====Why do we need to meet this head-on?=====
"Industrial systems” 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.  
Civilization on a resource-limited planet cannot thrive without a new level of thinking, planning, and investing. We are missing out on crucial opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability, and profits.
=====How does OnTrackNorthAmerica address this problem?=====
OnTrackNorthAmerica (OTNA) engages with you on this website, built with Wikipedia's open-source software, to co-create integrated solutions and advance opportunities. We provide the set of understandings, principles, methodologies, and tools to redesign our industrial systems. This redesign requires the collective intelligence of all stakeholders, across government, industry, and communities. OTNA continually leverages your input through Industrial Systems Initiatives and IntelliSynthesis®, an inquiry-based methodology for efficiently gathering collective intelligence into smart policies, plans, and investments.  


<h2>What do we mean by redesign?</h2>
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Redesigning industrial systems requires collaborative efforts to enhance efficiency and minimize negative impacts. The process begins with stakeholders setting shared goals and practical measures while acknowledging existing strategies and investments. This redesign may necessitate thoughtful reconstruction, repurposing, or relocation of facilities. For example, an optimized strategic mineral supply chain could strategically position lithium mines, battery plants, vehicle factories, and recycling facilities to improve overall logistics. We term this [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization|"Collaborative Industrial Optimization"]]—a framework where stakeholders identify necessary decisions, actions, and capital investments. This redesign also demands inspiring the human element by creating incentives for organizations and individuals to contribute to system-wide sustainability. 
[[OTNA Curriculum|{{Clickable button|<big>Next steps for learning more</big>}}]]
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<h2>Who are the stakeholders?</h2>
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 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 work together as stakeholders?</h2>
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We convene stakeholders in IntelliConference Series® forums that apply IntelliSynthesis®, our breakthrough question-and-response dialogue method, for efficient input from large groups of diverse stakeholders. In IntelliSynthesis we invite participants from all sectors in a given system or region to ensure representation of all perspectives. Each participant agrees to read and timely respond 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. Planning transitions into action planning and decision-making. The IntelliConference Series® and IntelliSynthesis® processes are explained in greater detail elsewhere on this website.
=====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 [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>What do we mean by sustainability?</h2>
See [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization]].
Sustainability of life is the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of our economies, humans and nature.
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<h2>What is a Continental Action Plan?</h2>
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“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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Latest revision as of 15:13, 25 November 2025

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, agriculture, and raw materials to production, consumption, and recycling, our society can 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. We are missing out on crucial opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability, and profits.

How does OnTrackNorthAmerica address this problem?

OnTrackNorthAmerica (OTNA) engages with you on this website, built with Wikipedia's open-source software, to co-create integrated solutions and advance opportunities. We provide the set of understandings, principles, methodologies, and tools to redesign our industrial systems. This redesign requires the collective intelligence of all stakeholders, across government, industry, and communities. OTNA continually leverages your input through Industrial Systems Initiatives and IntelliSynthesis®, an inquiry-based methodology for efficiently gathering collective intelligence into smart policies, plans, and investments.

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

Contact us

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1700 Sansom Street, Suite 701

Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA

Phone: +1 215-564-3004






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