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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evaluation
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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Doing Our Homework on our Research
Checking our assumptions about basic things could be the difference between design delight and doom. If you were to tell
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Monitoring, Principles and Impotent Strategy
Without connecting monitoring of our programs with our principles and strategy, we are simply creating impotency in our organizations. The
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Fit and Function
Many issues faced in times of change is negotiating fit with function and how shifting one can transform the other.
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Tripwires and Cascades
Understanding what a tripwire is and the cascade of behaviours that come from it are keys to linking causes and effects and evaluating change dynamics.
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The More Things Change
Aphorisms about change and stability abound and the truths they tell can set us free if we listen. We’ve all
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Innovation’s Fear Factor
The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make
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Five Hundred
Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.
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Signals and Actions
Signals of intent can be misleading indicators of future action and may lead away from our desired change. They are
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