Strategic Design is the application of design methods, principles, thinking, and approaches to an enterprise. It combines aspects of systems design, service design, and design thinking. Strategic Design focuses on aligning the organization’s resources, interests, and goals with what it does. It ensures that your organization is fit for purpose. Fit For Purpose We use …
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Over at our sister site (Censemaking), we are publishing a series on Principles-Focused Evaluation. The series is looking at the basic building blocks that underpin the approach and will describe how to use it. We will be posting some additional materials here at a later date. But before one starts out using principles, it’s essential …
You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of system mapping that visualizes critical aspects of a system and organizes them. …
When we design for humans we create things that seem ridiculous in advance, are weird, and yet later are consider clever. This means taking humans as they are, not how we want them to be.
Have you ever asked questions about your organization’s identity before? Who are you? What do you stand for? What kind of things motivate you to action and direct your attention? The answers to all of these questions shape what we do in our work. Organizations that have a clear sense of what they do, why …
