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There are reasons people read or scroll through content on beautiful places and spaces; it inspires us to create. Our environments play a big role in shaping ideas and creating innovations. This post was inspired from the recent episode of Censemaking: The Innovation Podcast. When I was five years old, I had a terrible accident …
The proliferation of ‘tips and tricks’ for boosting change-making and innovation efforts obscures the craft and commitment that transformation requires. Visit sites like Medium, search YouTube, or scroll through your Twitter feed and you’ll find endless sources of tips and tricks to innovate, transform, or learn. Tips and tricks work for formatting files with software. …
Evaluation is a term that requires some rehabilitation. The term isn’t incorrect or outdated, just poorly understood and not much appreciated. That is unfortunate because it is a field, practice, and habit that every innovator and change-maker could benefit from knowing intimately. In this article, I’m going to outline why and what we might do …
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects provide a perfect example of similarity and difference in strategy, outcome, and impact. Are you tired yet? If you’re reading this in 2022, the answer is probably: “yes.” COVID-19 has tested humanity’s collective ability to adapt and strategize collectively. The Omicron variant that spread across the globe at the …
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The personalities and preferences of innovators and change-makers are rarely discussed and when they are it’s not about implementation. So it was with some enthusiasm that we find an attempt to place the roles, preferences, and skills of implementers in a framework and discuss what these might mean. Consultants at NOBL sought to ‘type’ those …
Confidence is among the central pillars of behaviour change and also among the most complicated of them. Confidence can be gained, lost, and used to our advantage and to our detriment. This makes it among the most interesting and important aspects of change-making we can attend to. The latest episode of Censemaking: The Innovation Podcast …
What if we viewed our strategy as a vehicle for shaping our services rather than the other way around? By looking at a strategy as more than a plan, but as a service design we can better align what we want with what we do. We begin this look by considering what kind of questions …
A good framework can provide enormous guidance when faced with a situation where there is no clear path forward. By allowing you to ‘hang’ and organize ideas a good framework can help you focus your design, too. A good closet not only stores your clothes, it organizes your wardrobe. The same can be said for …
It’s remarkable how a term can grow and change over time and that is no less true for the term innovation. What innovation is now is not what I used to and that’s probably as innovative of an idea as it gets. Just as nature’s seasons change, it’s time to update that definition. I’ve been …
Strategic innovation is not immune to the same trends in consumption and use as we see in products and services. What does it mean when the way we approach our work is more curation than an event? Let’s look at how drips might be the new drops for strategic innovation. I recently read an article …
