Surfacing Invisible Rules
A simple set of questions can help your innovation before you start your project. You can save years of pain and problems and see beyond the fence into the pool of opportunity beyond.
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Breaking the Ice
Meetings, events, and other facilitated face-to-face gatherings only work if people engage with each other. Doing this requires some kind of interest or ability to connect with one another in person. While there are certainly some people who have little difficulty engaging with new people in unfamiliar settings, many struggle. This is where the icebreaker
Systems Diagrams Made Simple
Sketch diagrams are powerful tools for visualizing complex programs and systems. This simple technique literally gets people on the same page. Mapping out a service or product ecosystem can be a complicated endeavour. There is the entire field of systemic design that focuses on tools and strategies to engage users for starters. There are approaches
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Evaluation: The Innovator’s Secret Advantage
Innovators are a hopeful lot. They are looking to find an advantage by creating something new that will improve their current condition or at the very least prevent their current situation from deteriorating. Sometimes you need to change to keep things the same. Evaluation is one of the hidden (maybe secret) advantages from those innovators
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Better data visualizing, better impact
What good is a program evaluation if its findings aren’t used? Not much. Even as an accountability mechanism, evaluations have the potential to demonstrate the impact a program is having in the world and reveal new insights to guide strategy in ways that few other things can. Although there are many ways to convey evaluation
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