being
aware
of other
worlds
being
ingenious
being
optimistic
being
flexible and
iterative
being
empathetic
being multi-
disciplinary
These change cards can be used to help you come up with new ideas or think
about a problem or project in a different way. They are deliberately hypothetical to
provoke extremes of thought and push the boundaries of what is possible. They will
help you bring in new perspectives, unblock tacit barriers, generate new insights
and help you work in an agile and iterative way.
There are six categories of card, and they can be used during the diagnose,
discover, develop & deliver stages of a project:
•	 Being	aware	of	other	worlds
•	 Being	multi-disciplinary
•	 Being	empathetic
•	 Being	ingenious
•	 Being	optimistic
•	 Being	flexible	&	iterative
Push your thinking to the limits! Please copy these and share with others. And there
are a couple of blank ones for you to add your own.
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being aware of
other worlds
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
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What would they do
in Scandinavia?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
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What would they do
in China?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would they do
in Brazil?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What might it look like
in 2040?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What might it like
in 2020?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
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What did it look like
in 2000?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
If it could be different
everywhere, how would it
look in Newcastle versus
Newquay?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
If it could be different
everywhere, how would it
look in Belfast versus
the Brecon Beacons?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
If it could be different
everywhere, how would
it look in Dundee versus
Durham?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being multi-disciplinary
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would an
entrepreneur do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a scientist do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a teacher do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a lawyer do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would the PM say?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a teenager do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would Apple do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a community
volunteer do?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Who would be in your dream
team to crack this problem?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What ninja skill would you
love for this project?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What is your blind spot?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would the world’s
leading expert on this say?
(And who are they)
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being empathic
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would a person
experiencing your idea
think about it?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if your team included
the public?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if your team included
front-line staff?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being ingenious
& resourceful
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would happen if we
did the opposite?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if we exaggerated
what we already have?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if the current solution
is no longer possible?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would we do if people
were our only resource?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would we do if
we only had one day?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if legislation or
regulation is not allowed?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if you could only
persuade the public with
words or images? What
would they be?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would we do if
we had no budget?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would this cost?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being optimistic
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if we had
unlimited budget?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
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What if we had
unlimited time?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would we do
in an ideal world?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would we do if we had
to do it for the whole world?
(i.e. scale up)
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
Change
Card
Being flexible
& iterative
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if you needed to
complete it sooner?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if you have to
start again?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if new data insight
contradicts what your current
evidence has told you?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What other policy or idea
could seriously de-rail yours?
And which could help it?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if a new and
unexpected idea is created?
How would you include it?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What would it look like if
you had to draw it or make
a model of it now?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
What if, every week,
you had to test it with a
different person?
Who would that be?
These cards are hypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries
WIP Summer 2015
STOP and describe your idea
in less than ten words.
What would the news
headline say?
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Change
Card
Make your own
WIP Summer 2015

PolicyLab Change Cards

  • 1.
  • 2.
    These change cardscan be used to help you come up with new ideas or think about a problem or project in a different way. They are deliberately hypothetical to provoke extremes of thought and push the boundaries of what is possible. They will help you bring in new perspectives, unblock tacit barriers, generate new insights and help you work in an agile and iterative way. There are six categories of card, and they can be used during the diagnose, discover, develop & deliver stages of a project: • Being aware of other worlds • Being multi-disciplinary • Being empathetic • Being ingenious • Being optimistic • Being flexible & iterative Push your thinking to the limits! Please copy these and share with others. And there are a couple of blank ones for you to add your own.
  • 3.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being aware of other worlds
  • 4.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would they do in Scandinavia?
  • 5.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would they do in China?
  • 6.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would they do in Brazil?
  • 7.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What might it look like in 2040?
  • 8.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What might it like in 2020?
  • 9.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What did it look like in 2000?
  • 10.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 If it could be different everywhere, how would it look in Newcastle versus Newquay?
  • 11.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 If it could be different everywhere, how would it look in Belfast versus the Brecon Beacons?
  • 12.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 If it could be different everywhere, how would it look in Dundee versus Durham?
  • 13.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being multi-disciplinary
  • 14.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would an entrepreneur do?
  • 15.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a scientist do?
  • 16.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a teacher do?
  • 17.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a lawyer do?
  • 18.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would the PM say?
  • 19.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a teenager do?
  • 20.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would Apple do?
  • 21.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a community volunteer do?
  • 22.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Who would be in your dream team to crack this problem?
  • 23.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What ninja skill would you love for this project?
  • 24.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What is your blind spot?
  • 25.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would the world’s leading expert on this say? (And who are they)
  • 26.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being empathic
  • 27.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would a person experiencing your idea think about it?
  • 28.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if your team included the public?
  • 29.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if your team included front-line staff?
  • 30.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being ingenious & resourceful
  • 31.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would happen if we did the opposite?
  • 32.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if we exaggerated what we already have?
  • 33.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if the current solution is no longer possible?
  • 34.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would we do if people were our only resource?
  • 35.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would we do if we only had one day?
  • 36.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if legislation or regulation is not allowed?
  • 37.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if you could only persuade the public with words or images? What would they be?
  • 38.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would we do if we had no budget?
  • 39.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would this cost?
  • 40.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being optimistic
  • 41.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if we had unlimited budget?
  • 42.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if we had unlimited time?
  • 43.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would we do in an ideal world?
  • 44.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would we do if we had to do it for the whole world? (i.e. scale up)
  • 45.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 Change Card Being flexible & iterative
  • 46.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if you needed to complete it sooner?
  • 47.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if you have to start again?
  • 48.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if new data insight contradicts what your current evidence has told you?
  • 49.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What other policy or idea could seriously de-rail yours? And which could help it?
  • 50.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if a new and unexpected idea is created? How would you include it?
  • 51.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What would it look like if you had to draw it or make a model of it now?
  • 52.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 What if, every week, you had to test it with a different person? Who would that be?
  • 53.
    These cards arehypothetical in order to open up people’s minds and push the boundaries WIP Summer 2015 STOP and describe your idea in less than ten words. What would the news headline say?
  • 54.
  • 55.