If you’re stuck, consider the opportunity to make a mark with your work. Organizations often lack meaning in their work, not capability, when they find themselves stuck. One way to reinvigorate your work, your organization and yourself is to explore the idea of designing for significance. Designing for significance refers to the process of creating […]
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We’ve used the 5 Why’s as a powerful, simple vehicle for fostering conversations about why we do things. Often, particularly with well-established programs and services, we lose the connection between the rationale behind why something was done and what value it brings. A technique called the 5 Why’s could help us get closer to this
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Did you ever notice how much you take in visiting a new city or town for the first time? Maybe it’s time to get out more. The Innovation Walkabout is a simple technique that adopts what we do naturally when encountering something new. The method is as simple as it sounds. The first step is
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Do your notes bore you? They shouldn’t if you’re serious about learning. Note-taking is among the most powerful, accessible, and portable means to support innovation and learning. Yet, most of us do it poorly. Do you review your notes after you take them? Do you know why you are taking notes in the first place?
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The Cynefin Framework is among the most widely used frameworks for understanding how systems are organized. It might be the most practical means of bringing systems thinking to life. A system, after all, is simply an organization of things within some constraint or boundary. We rely on The Cynefin Framework (pronounced /kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in) as a
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