The importance of measuring design impact is emphasized, questioning the value of unmeasured outcomes. The Design Council promotes systematic evaluation of design’s worth, especially in health and social sectors. Designers must tread cautiously, acknowledging their influence on systems and communities, and ensuring every design strategy incorporates evaluation for responsible innovation.
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If you’re stuck trying to connect your ambitions, your programs, and evidence for use in complex contexts, traditional evaluation models won’t get you there. Design-driven evaluation might. Complex contexts involve multiple sources of input, changing conditions, and different timescales. They bring together uncertainty and a resistance to rigid, linear plans and to the use of
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It’s a strange thing that we easily accept elite athletes and teams, or award-winning performers, having coaches to help them improve and sustain their performance, yet ignore this for human systems work. Why? No matter how experienced, wise, educated or involved a leader is in the craft and practice of their work, there is room
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SWOT analysis is a strategic tool developed in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. While widely adopted in business, it faces criticism for lack of methodological rigor and oversimplification. Despite its limitations, skilled facilitation can enhance its effectiveness in strategy discussions and foresight activities.
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It’s nearly impossible to scan the news without encountering AI. From OpenAI’s Sora bringing filmmaking to anyone with a prompt, to tools that generate documents, podcasts, and reports in seconds, we’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how things get made. But here’s the question that matters for those of us working in health and human
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