In modern societies, ill defined problems are regularly managed by assigning them to professions or semi-professional groups. One core task of physicians and lawyers - as representatives of classical professions - consists in redefininig ill defined problems according to their fields of competence to make them manageable. Hence a headache gets transformed into an orthopaedic or neurological (or, or,...) problem. Similarily a dispute between neighbours is being turned into an administrative or criminal (or, or,...) law case. In the same way professional occupations like consultants start with an 'analysis' in order to make organisational problems manageable according to their toolset. The question, if said problems are being solved in a sustainable way, is still an open question.

IDP LAB has chosen a different path: Hypotheses about problem causes are being validated in short-cycle iterations in order to get to the root causes. The results of said processes are being presented to the public in order to provide fast and effective solutions for other organisations. Hence IDP LAB sees itself as an experimental as well as a charitable endeavour.

IDP LAB is therefore no organisation but rather an experiment. An exoeriment which consists of a network of partners from an industrial, charitable and academic background which try to solve organisational problems in a sustainable inseatd of superficial way.