Taking Ideas Into Sustainable Innovation
One bright idea is pretty but a collection of ideas put into practice over time, sustainably, is beautiful (and real
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Practice Amid Disruption
What regular practice does is reduce the cost of failure and these costs are different in times of disruption. Innovation
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Developing Creative Confidence With Practice
The means to developing the ability to create useful, valued products and service comes from learning through doing. What is
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Innovation Subscriptions
The concept of subscribing to something is an attractive way to build in practices to sustain innovative activities. Whether it
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Learning for Innovation
Learning is at the heart of innovation and works best when evaluation is part of the process to spot what’s
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The Sense-making Winter
Winter provides a literal and metaphorical season ripe for sense-making if the other seasons are different Winter creates a natural
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Design Thinking, Futures & Evaluation
The time to bring together three fields of practice focused on shaping the future with evidence and imagination is here.
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A Better Next
Beforetimes were different than now and what’s next will be different, too. The difference is that one we can design
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Innovators and Maintainers
Innovators are nothing without maintainers to keep those innovations working: we forget that at our peril. Innovation is what a
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A Wider Lens on Learning
Learning in times of turbulence requires much more than lessons or courses – it requires new systems. I’ve long contended
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