Predicting Next Year’s Top Story
Imagining the headlines of the future can be a useful foresight and strategy technique to shape your actions.
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Simple Systems Scoping
Systems thinking done broadly allows us to take into consideration the various factors — structures, activities, relationships, interconnections — that can influence our organization, market, and domain of inquiry. One of the fundamental qualities of systems is that they have boundaries. For example, when we consider an organization as a system we need to place
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Acting in Complex Times
The complexities and complications of circumstances tied to the COVID-19 pandemic represent a hyper-exaggerated version of situations organizations find themselves in moments of disruption due to economic, social, and technological shifts. It is a moment of innovation. What makes the current situation distinct is that the issues are global. Usually we have safe refuge in
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Visual Thinking
Service and product design involves creating something, envisioning it’s use, consideration of its effects, and hopefully seeing it achieve a goal. When we are creating or planning our project we need to consider all of that on top of the many ideas we have about what that product or service ought to involve. That is
Innovation Strategy: A Tool
Innovation development and execution are highly affected by what kind of environment you operate in. For innovators in business, the public sector, and healthcare questions abound like: How can we determine what kind of market — whether it’s products, services, and policies — do we want to focus on? What does innovation look like in
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