Developmental Evaluation is all about using data to support innovation. How does this look in practice (and how’s it done?) Developmental Evaluation (DE) is all about supporting and developing innovation. It provides some of the raw feedback materials and a process to help innovators make decisions about what they are creating, adapting to changing conditions, …
Evaluation tells your innovation’s impact story to the wider world. Learn more about what you do by learning about evaluation. Changing something requires evidence, otherwise change doesn’t exist. We only know something has changed — grown, shrunk, transformed, moved — through study (seeing before, after, and what happens in between). Evaluation is what tells that …
Innovation work requires a mindset, a skillset, and a toolset. The key is finding the right tools for the job. Building anything — a new product, process, policy — requires tools (even if that is just your hands). Today we expand our profile some tools introduced in the last issue of the Censemaking Innovation Newsletter …
Actions speak the language of change by making it visible. Talking about change shapes our actions, so let’s talk carefully. Change, real change of substance, is considerably difficult to orchestrate. Even in the presence of threats, opportunities, internal drive, and lack of alternate options, change is difficult to encourage, stimulate, motivate, and sustain in individuals, …
We can forget the needs of the people doing innovation. Looking after ourselves requires a new set of innovation skills. We continue our dive into the latest headlines from the Censemaking Innovation Newsletter with a focus on those resources that can help you — the innovator — look after yourself, perform better, and create better …
Highlights on innovation psychology inspired by the Censemaking Newsletter. Today we dive a little further into some of the headlines from our latest newsletter, recapping some stories on the psychology of innovation that might be of interest to you. Change Your Mind, Change your Behaviour McKinsey & Co recently published a new report on the role of …
Innovation requires learning to design for the changes around us. This involves not treating moving things as if they’re still. Even if we are standing still, movement is all around us. Whether it’s the seasons, the weather, business cycles or more, we are surrounded by change. Change might be the only true constant. However, our …
Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools. This is not your typical post. Today I’m launching the Censemaking Newsletter. Every two-three weeks I’ll send some of the best on trends, tools, techniques, research and case studies on innovation with the goal of …
Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.
Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things? It’s back to school time in many parts of the world and with it a return to a different pace of life. Throughout history we’ve not had many models of structured, intentional learning. Until the …
