Strategic Design is about applying design principles, methods, tools, and approaches to shaping an enterprise. How might we use this to connect our purpose with our actions? Strategic Design is a newer area of practice within the field of design. It’s basically taking what we know about Design and applying it to ourselves: our organizations, …
Systems and evaluative thinking are at the core of Principles-Focused Evaluation, and using both can help us think and act better.
This second in a series on Principles-Focused Evaluation (PFE) draws our attention to the concepts of systems and complexity and how can PFE help us navigate both. Systems (thinking), complexity, and principles all go together. Principles-focused Evaluation (PFE) brings them together in meaningful ways, but to understand that, we first need to understand what we …
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What is a Principles-Focused Evaluation approach, and what does it offer those seeking to support change, adaptation, and innovation? This first in a series of posts will introduce you to an approach to strategic innovation and evaluation for complex situations. Principles-Focused Evaluation (PFE) is an approach to generating value in complex situations. It is an …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has touched everything in ways great and small. The mindset we bring to see, feel, and sense will shape how we live with all that is and what might come. In this article, we look at the psychology and strategy of planned healing, rehabilitation, and recovery. Another ‘pandemic winter‘ has brought further …
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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At the time of this writing, the world is wrestling with a new fast-moving variant of the COVID-19 virus (Omicron) adding to the scourge that has gripped the world since early 2020. While organizations wrestle with how to plan for what comes after COVID there are lessons we can learn now that can extend far …
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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 …
We can learn much about change from our trips to the beach and how things relate to one another. Beach-going is a summer pleasure than those of us fortunate to live close to the water can enjoy as an escape and, when it’s hot, sometimes a necessity. While it might odd at first, our lazy …
Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.
