Self-knowledge is a great asset, however the reason we often hire an external consultant is because we know a part of ourself so well that it becomes difficult to see other parts of who we are. We obviously have a bias toward the role of external consultants because that’s what we do, but we also […]
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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.
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What if innovation was like epidemiology? What if we wanted to understand the source, scope, scale, and spread of an idea or product? That’s one way that we think about the innovation process. Innovation – like a virus — is similar to infectious disease epidemiology. Both of these areas look at the development of something,
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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
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Just as parents will use pencil notches in a wall to track the height of their children as a developmental marker, so too can innovators and evaluators use timelines to help gather and track the development of programs and projects over time. A timeline is a simple linear visual that gathers activities together that uses
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