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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Sensemaking in Crisis
Sensemaking is a social process that helps us make sense of data, information, and knowledge in a time of complexity. It’s used often in innovation contexts when we are fitting data to a unique situation. The RSA (the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) a UK-based charity and think-tank has recently
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Using Theories for Change
The concept of Theory of Change is meant to provide program planners and evaluators with guidance on how to make sense of the mechanisms that guide how something transforms. Theory of Change as a technique is usually visual, participatory and consultative in nature, and is something that is developed alongside the program itself. What is
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What Went Wrong? A Question For Futures Insight
In five years, what did we get wrong? This simple question can be a powerful vehicle for understanding the way in which things in the future might — and might not — unfold. Foresight is a complicated process as we are asking to see into a horizon that hasn’t yet taken place. Rather than predict
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Evaluation for Change
Change is everywhere it seems and while it can be said it is the only constant what we are seeing is an increase of change on a massive scale. However, as the protesters across the United States, Canada and beyond are making clear: there is a big difference between talk of change, the process of
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