Systems Thinking Practice: Starting Out
Systems thinking is something we can all learn to do. We discuss the fundamentals for starting your practice as a systems thinker.
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Reducing Drama Through Design Strategy
Design strategy connects our intent to actions and this post looks at how to develop one and use it to shape change in your organization.
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Innovation With Visualization: Seeing Things Differently
Value can be created by building on other products or services. Radio Garden is drawing on other systems to pull together radio stations and providing the same content that can be found elsewhere, but it’s organizing it.
Providing alternative perspectives is value in itself. JimJamPro’s 3-D photo maps technically don’t show anything that isn’t in Google Maps, yet they provide a wholesale different perspective on all of that content, adding considerable contextual value.
Visualizing relationships is systems innovation. Visualizing a system of relationships — a radio station within a country, an apartment block within a neighbourhood — provides insight into a system, not just a product.
Incubation and Echoes
Systems change requires the kind of tools and mindset shifts that can move how and what we see to act better. We profile various strategies to help you do that.
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The Power of Subtle Change
Changing dualisms and either/or thinking into real strategic plans can allow us to make big differences and change with small actions.
Read moreDesign (re)Thinking Health Systems
How might we design health systems to promote health and wellbeing and not just treat illness and disease and manage
Read moreEmpathy: The Ultimate Design + Systems Challenge
Empathy is a central feature of good human-centred design, yet is often practiced narrowly. Visualization with systems thinking and mindfulness
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