NZCETA. Preparing for a New Entrepreneurial EconomySteve Silvey
Presentation to NZCETA Annual Conference July 2013. The most powerful economic force in the 21st Century will be entrepreneurship, and today's high school students are better placed than ever to take advantage of this. In the past, the entrepreneur has been regarded as an outlier or a misfit in the education system. In the future a much greater proportion of high school students will be considering starting up as a career option, and the system needs to respond to remain relevant.
Millennial Board is a global community of insightful young professionals. We help executives to challenge the unchallengeable to find pathways for new growth.
Global Entrepreneurship Week - A Catalyst to Growing an Entrepreneurial Ecosy...Sean Griffin
In this NACCE Webinar you will learn how Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tulsa Community College has successfully grown their Global Entrepreneurship Week events into an emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Since introducing Global Entrepreneurship Week and the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award Business Model Competition five years ago, the entrepreneurial landscape of Tulsa has grown into being nationally recognized as a leader at growing entrepreneurs.
NZCETA. Preparing for a New Entrepreneurial EconomySteve Silvey
Presentation to NZCETA Annual Conference July 2013. The most powerful economic force in the 21st Century will be entrepreneurship, and today's high school students are better placed than ever to take advantage of this. In the past, the entrepreneur has been regarded as an outlier or a misfit in the education system. In the future a much greater proportion of high school students will be considering starting up as a career option, and the system needs to respond to remain relevant.
Millennial Board is a global community of insightful young professionals. We help executives to challenge the unchallengeable to find pathways for new growth.
Global Entrepreneurship Week - A Catalyst to Growing an Entrepreneurial Ecosy...Sean Griffin
In this NACCE Webinar you will learn how Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tulsa Community College has successfully grown their Global Entrepreneurship Week events into an emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Since introducing Global Entrepreneurship Week and the Tulsa Entrepreneurial Spirit Award Business Model Competition five years ago, the entrepreneurial landscape of Tulsa has grown into being nationally recognized as a leader at growing entrepreneurs.
Short case about culture change, presentation only supported the story and is hard to understand without the full story, sorry for that.
Stuffed with al kinds of fancy animations this time, hard to see on slideshare..
The theme fitted with the book the iceberg is melting from John Kotter.
Want to start a business but don’t have a good idea? Let us show you were the best ideas in the world came from. It’s easier than you may think.
Agenda Topics
- How to start a business with no business idea?
- Turning the search for ideas upside down.
- Going on idea hunt – several real life stories
- Crafting a skill and interest based target map for your search
- The “yellow Book” a problem list with important personal criteria
- Idea selection process
Want to turn an amazingly innovative idea into reality? We’ll help share techniques with you to make your dream a reality.
AGENDA TOPICS
- From idea development to innovation design
- Brain power “Deep Innovation”, working in a team
- The difference between an original idea and a copy
- Prepare for the extreme innovative solution
- Back in reality and the first compromise
- Keeping the vision
- Market leader through innovative thinking
Creativity and Innovation - Ketchum ChangeTyler Durham
Creativity and innovation don’t occur in a vacuum. Leaders must set the conditions for success, model the right behaviors, facilitate an environment that encourages experimentation and pioneering, and gather the best ideas from all employees. Learn about the six main constraints to creative and innovation success, how organizations are transforming themselves to harness employee and external ideas to create, innovate, and evolve – and the characteristics of successful leaders who inspire creativity and innovation.
Youth with Tech in Innovation - University Utara Malaysia (UUM) SpeechMichael Teoh
Michael Teoh delivers his speech about Youths in Innovation with Technology at one of Malaysia's premiere university in the north - University Utara Malaysia (UUM). A strong crowd of over 500 students packed the hall, listening to suggestions and ideas on how students can start innovating to solve problems in their communities and lives.
Will your innovation withstand the ever more demanding needs of your customers? It’s a challenge for everybody – but let us share how the best are doing it.
AGENDA TOPICS
- The richest source for innovation are current customers
- If you don’t have customers, explore the behavior from others
- The power of the observation method with a team
- Watching, Listening, Interviewing and the “Observation Laboratory”
- Topping competitors with Customer Experience Management
Being a 1.2billion-brains-strong nation, talent and genius is in abundance with us, but somehow we fail to create necessary and apt system to extract this juice and taste it. Some say illiteracy, while others ignorance, but truth is, that lack of opportunity and trust is why the inventions of the talented innovators of our country go unnoticed and unacknowledged. The non-profit relationship of TYIF aims at bringing the accomplishments of the Indian talent in the spotlight.
TYIF will be an active society working towards combing for the creativity, and guiding the budding discoverers to materialize their idea into working model; helping them would be experienced pioneers who have trodden an innovative un-explored path in the past, and have risen as the masterminds of the present society.
Entrepreneurship and E-Cell (E-Cell, Delhi Technological University)Dewansh Parashar
The Delhi Technological University's Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) presented a few professional looking slides depicting the overview of entrepreneurship. Questions like
1.What?
2.Why?
3.Surveys, comparisons and charts.
4.Our past achievements..
have been covered in this presentation.
Information Literacy in the Scottish GovernmentLesley Thomson
Presentation given with Jenny Foreman at the CILIPS Skills for Scotland: information literacy, libraries and learning event, Glasgow Metropolitan College, 19 March 2009.
Short case about culture change, presentation only supported the story and is hard to understand without the full story, sorry for that.
Stuffed with al kinds of fancy animations this time, hard to see on slideshare..
The theme fitted with the book the iceberg is melting from John Kotter.
Want to start a business but don’t have a good idea? Let us show you were the best ideas in the world came from. It’s easier than you may think.
Agenda Topics
- How to start a business with no business idea?
- Turning the search for ideas upside down.
- Going on idea hunt – several real life stories
- Crafting a skill and interest based target map for your search
- The “yellow Book” a problem list with important personal criteria
- Idea selection process
Want to turn an amazingly innovative idea into reality? We’ll help share techniques with you to make your dream a reality.
AGENDA TOPICS
- From idea development to innovation design
- Brain power “Deep Innovation”, working in a team
- The difference between an original idea and a copy
- Prepare for the extreme innovative solution
- Back in reality and the first compromise
- Keeping the vision
- Market leader through innovative thinking
Creativity and Innovation - Ketchum ChangeTyler Durham
Creativity and innovation don’t occur in a vacuum. Leaders must set the conditions for success, model the right behaviors, facilitate an environment that encourages experimentation and pioneering, and gather the best ideas from all employees. Learn about the six main constraints to creative and innovation success, how organizations are transforming themselves to harness employee and external ideas to create, innovate, and evolve – and the characteristics of successful leaders who inspire creativity and innovation.
Youth with Tech in Innovation - University Utara Malaysia (UUM) SpeechMichael Teoh
Michael Teoh delivers his speech about Youths in Innovation with Technology at one of Malaysia's premiere university in the north - University Utara Malaysia (UUM). A strong crowd of over 500 students packed the hall, listening to suggestions and ideas on how students can start innovating to solve problems in their communities and lives.
Will your innovation withstand the ever more demanding needs of your customers? It’s a challenge for everybody – but let us share how the best are doing it.
AGENDA TOPICS
- The richest source for innovation are current customers
- If you don’t have customers, explore the behavior from others
- The power of the observation method with a team
- Watching, Listening, Interviewing and the “Observation Laboratory”
- Topping competitors with Customer Experience Management
Being a 1.2billion-brains-strong nation, talent and genius is in abundance with us, but somehow we fail to create necessary and apt system to extract this juice and taste it. Some say illiteracy, while others ignorance, but truth is, that lack of opportunity and trust is why the inventions of the talented innovators of our country go unnoticed and unacknowledged. The non-profit relationship of TYIF aims at bringing the accomplishments of the Indian talent in the spotlight.
TYIF will be an active society working towards combing for the creativity, and guiding the budding discoverers to materialize their idea into working model; helping them would be experienced pioneers who have trodden an innovative un-explored path in the past, and have risen as the masterminds of the present society.
Entrepreneurship and E-Cell (E-Cell, Delhi Technological University)Dewansh Parashar
The Delhi Technological University's Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) presented a few professional looking slides depicting the overview of entrepreneurship. Questions like
1.What?
2.Why?
3.Surveys, comparisons and charts.
4.Our past achievements..
have been covered in this presentation.
Information Literacy in the Scottish GovernmentLesley Thomson
Presentation given with Jenny Foreman at the CILIPS Skills for Scotland: information literacy, libraries and learning event, Glasgow Metropolitan College, 19 March 2009.
Reflections on design in the Scottish GovernmentLesley Thomson
Presentation given at the Service Design in Government conference in London on 20 March 2015.
Over the past couple of years, a number of teams across the Scottish Government have used a design approach in various areas of policy development and service delivery. We wanted to evaluate how design has contributed to this ‘Scottish Approach’ to government. Are there aspects of design that compliment and challenge our current approach? Where does design differ from the improvement methodology? We also wanted to reflect on the conditions needed for a successful design project.
Social media: Tools for research and collaborationLesley Thomson
Presentation given at the CILIPS University, College and Research Group Scotland 'Social media: Tools for research and collaboration' workshop at Edinburgh University on 23 March 2012.
Presentation by Sheila Corrall for Staff Development Week at Coleg Prifysgol y Drindod, Caerfyrddin/Trinity University College, Carmarthen on 2 September 2009. Explains the concept of Information Literacy and why it is vital for Higher Education Institutions to engage with IL at a strategic level. Outlines developments in the sector and presents a case study of the University of Sheffield highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement and multi-professional partnerships. Concludes with strategic questions institutions need to consider.
Presentation by Sheila Corrall to the Network of Government Library and Information Specialists (NGLIS) Conference in London on 3 June 2009. Explains the concept of Information Literacy and discusses the development of information literacy strategies in the Higher Education sector, drawing on research and practice at the University of Sheffield. Examines the situation in the Government sector, providing examples of initiatives taken by library and information professionals. Concludes with practical steps towards developing an information literacy strategy.
Ponencia impartida por Melani Oliver, directora del programa Innovación en el Gobierno Local de Nesta, el 5 de julio de 2013 en la II European Summer School of Social Innovation
How to start a thriving agile community in 3 tweets! Simon Marriott
Our story begins with a tweet: "BAs at Redgate are looking at setting up a Cambridge peer learning group, do you know of anyone who may be interested/helpful?"
A year later, Cambridge has a vibrant, growing community that is going from strength to strength, and gaining visibility nationally. Let us take you on a journey of how we built the community and what we experienced.
This is was a presentation given at Agile Cambridge 2017 by Ian Philips and Simon Marriott
The 8th Dec event focussed on Wellcome Trust as a co-consulting case study and then Explored operating model design. We had some excellent conversations and practiced the application of operating model design to 2 different organisations.
Nurturing the talent pool: Challenges and opportunities of bringing on board ...Miles Weaver
Board’s to be effective need the right mix of skills, knowledge, backgrounds and experiences and perspectives to govern well, as well as embodying diversity in its widest sense (The NCVO Good Governance Guide, 2010). This talk discusses the benefits and role of 'Young Trustees' as a untapped source of talent, how we can nurture and support this talent to make a significant contribution to the governance of Scotland's third sector, charities and public bodies. But ... First of all, we need to tackle what we mean by 'young'? It's time to spill the beans ....
Discussion/Workshop:
How to encourage more people to get on board?
To identify ways in which Trusteeship can be encouraged and how we can build relationships and networks to support the development of trustees in Scotland.
Exploring Value and Values through Openness: Third Sector Partnerships approa...Ronald Macintyre
This paper explores a partnership between a Scottish Government programme to raise awareness and develop capacity in the creation and use of free open online education materials (OER), Open Educational Practices Scotland (OEPS), and Parkinson’s UK a Third Sector organisation which works to improve the lives of people with Parkinson’s. The partnership has designed and produced a series of badged open online courses aimed at Health and Social Care (HSC) staff. The paper focuses on one created for front line staff, sharing what we learnt about what design based approaches can contribute as explorers of “Public Value” (e.g. Moore 1995).
Those accessing OER tend to be the educational haves, in addressing this OEPS has applied “what works” in Widening Participation (WP), seeking partnership with organisations who are “trusted sources of support” with “shared values” to explore the OER role in creating learning journeys for those distanced from education (Macintyre and Cannell 2017). Parkinson’s UK have online and face to face programmes. However, as demand outstripped capacity, they wanted to use OER as a way to explore whether and how people would engage with open online learning. We suggest the creation of OER to outside formal curriculum suggests an absence, structural holes which are being filled by a values led organisation.
Influenced by work on participatory design, and design thinking approaches which focus on value (Dorst 2011) the partners treated these questions as a complex adaptive problem. Through workshops we looked at the value we wanted to create for the learners, for the people the learners cared for, and how this created values of each partner. In the paper we look at what this meant on a practical level, exploring the role of design based approaches in shaping our exploration of Public Value. In particular, we reflect on the use of a Public Value models as heuristics devices to frame messy real world problems. Suggesting this would provide a useful avenue for future research
References
Cannell P. Macintyre R. (2017) Free open online resources in workplace and community settings – a case study in overcoming barriers, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 19(1), pp.111-12
Dorst, K. (2011). The core of “design thinking” and its application. Design Studies, 32(6), pp.521–532.
Moore M. H. (1995) Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government, Harvard University Press: London
Creativity counts in learning for care experienced young peopleCELCIS
CELCIS Education Conference: In a Scottish Government and ESF-funded initiative called Arts, Creativity and Employability (ACE), Abertay University joined forces with the Articulate Cultural Trust to carry out research.
Riding on the Currents of Innovation to Supercharge Employee RelationsJoris Claeys
Organizations don't innovate! People do!
Breaking down silos – making things happen!
Building the NEW! Cultivate change! Do it with PASSION!
Enabling intrapreneurship through innovation champions, change agents and wave makers!
Leaders need to cultivate, hone-in and strategically unleash intrapreneurship across their organization or team.
Key to cultivating intrapreneurship is transparency: foster a healthy environment, where intrapreneurs flourish
Many want what innovation delivers, but aren’t prepared to do what it takes!
Organizations and leadership need to be AGILE – ADAPTIVE – RESPONSIVE
Creating an agile culture fosters forward thinking innovation!
Capacities bring forward your uniqueness, through emphasizing on your strengths and knowing your limitations for ourselves, team, company and ultimately the extended enterprise in which you operate. Resulting in effective collaboration – co-creation – co-design
Adaptive innovation cultures and human innovation capacities encourage ability to spot unique opportunities.
Landscape of the future
Why the career ladder no longer matters!
From hierarchy to lattice!
More companies look at alternative structures & why you should too.
CXO’s should experiment with ‘next stage’ organizations.
TEAL is the new green+blue addressing
all 5P’s of thrivable sustainability
This would be amazing! but we could never do this because …
“People from all ranks sense but hide the real pains, that something is broken in the way we run organizations. We need to create a whole ecosystem of support for organizations going Teal” – Frederic Laloux
“The ground beneath us is shifting at an accelerating rate. The implications for strategy are profound!” – John Hagel
“The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos. Creativity is not an option, it’s an absolute necessity!” – Sir Ken Robinson
It’s imperative to bring creativity to learning!
Enabling us to be innovative!
Without change of mindset
real magic cannot be expected!
think, lead & act without the box
amaze – attract – advance
Speaking engagement at
PMAP Regional Conference 201508 – People Management Association of the Philippines
For speaking and coaching engagements, contact me via ExpertFile or LinkedIn
www.expertfile.com/experts/joris.claeys
www.linkedin.com/in/knowledgenabler
You can request this presentation in PDF or PPT with full animation email at
Joris.Claeys@outlook.com
Service design: why haven't we changed the world yet?ThePublicOffice
We gave this 90 minute paper at the fabulous Service Design in Government 2016 conference, on March 9th 2016. By sharing the experiences we have had leading a very broad and deep innovation programme in Essex, we aim to shine a spotlight on what else needs to be built around service design, in order to create the sustained, radical shifts we want to see on the ground.
Doing Something Good slides from VicHealth Innovation Challenge - Alcohol: Ideas Jam.
Doing Something Good are working with VicHealth to help those interested in taking on the Innovation Challenge Alcohol to develop their big ideas and build their capability to make a real impact.
The Innovation Challenge – Alcohol: Ideas Jam was a one day practical, outcomes-driven workshop for participants to:
> explore key trends and identify opportunities
> discover socially innovative initiatives and approaches already making a difference
> develop an understanding of the needs and motivations of your target audience
Rapid Prototyping
> help you develop their pitch and design a prototype
> learn about and apply the principles and practices of design thinking and Lean Startup to develop and test their idea
We covered the principles of developing innovative ideas with impact, and how to apply these processes to the development of ideas for the Innovation Challenge: Alcohol. Methodologies used included Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Rapid Prototyping.
Read more about the Ideas Jam at http://doingsomethinggood.com.au/vichealth-innovation-challenge-alcohol-ideas-jam/
Find out more about the VicHealth Innovation Challenge Alcohol at http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Programs-and-Projects/Alcohol-Misuse/Programs/Innovation-Challenge.aspx#.VGGMiFOUdqY
Similar to Creativity in the Scottish Government (20)
Presentation given at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) 2011 conference at the Mitchell Library, 7 June.
Presentation about the importance of conversation given at the Scottish Knowledge Management Network meeting held at the Subsea7 offices in Aberdeen on 3 February 2011.
'Creating an information literate Scotland' Community of PracticeLesley Thomson
Presentation and launch of the 'Creating an information literate Scotland' Community of Practice at the Scottish Information Literacy Project Open Meeting on 16 September 2010.
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-to-donate-to-charity-during-this-holiday-season/
#charityforchildren, #donateforchildren, #donateclothesforchildren, #donatebooksforchildren, #donatetoysforchildren, #sponsorforchildren, #sponsorclothesforchildren, #sponsorbooksforchildren, #sponsortoysforchildren, #seruds, #kurnool
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
5. The Scottish Government
So, what is creativity?
•Generating new ideas
•Using ways that lead you to think differently, that
take you to new ideas
•Deliberately trying to escape your tried and tested
pattern of thinking
6. The Scottish Government
What’s the difference between creativity and innovation?
‘Creativity’ is the generation of new ideas – either new
ways of looking at existing problems, or of seeing new
opportunities.
‘Innovation’ is the successful exploitation of new
ideas. It is the process that carries them through to
new products, new services, new ways of running the
business or even new ways of doing business.
Cox Review of Creativity in Business, HM Treasury, 2005
9. The Scottish Government
What do successful creative organisations do?
Curious for ideas Motivated people
Open channels of communicationStrategic leadership
Fresh insights emerge in new places,
informed by a deep understanding of the
issues, at a human level. Leaders and
managers at all levels welcome new ideas
and support their development.
Shared understanding of goals, with clear
direction and discretion across hierarchies
to innovate in working towards them.
Leaders regularly remove barriers.
Broad networks, with simple forms of
communication and a culture of
consulting colleagues, sharing work and
ideas.
Work is challenging and fulfilling.
Corporate policies support flexible
operation. We celebrate and reward
creative work – and support the
development of creative skills.
Worthwhile public sector work
3 4
1 2
11. The Scottish Government
What is it that we do?
•Fostering a belief that we
are creative and that this
has a real part to play in
people’s work.
•Exploring, testing out and
implementing widely new
ways of working that help us
achieve our desired
outcomes.
15. The Scottish Government
Testing out new ways of working in policy
Deliberately taking risks
Creating cultures of innovation Post 16 learner journey
19. The Scottish Government
Getting active project – the story so far
Why get involved?
Need for radical rethink
Reduced public purse
Public expect better in terms of answers
What did it entail?
•Going back to the drawing board
•Seeing through lots of pairs of eyes
•From the consumers point of view – making it meaningful
20. The Scottish Government
Discover – defining the question
How can we radically
increase the number of
people in Scotland who are
physically active?
22. The Scottish Government
Define – developing insights and describing unmet needs
‘Habits are powerful - it's not
easy for everyone. How to
get into habits of making
healthy choices within
constraints people live in.’
‘Mountain biking is big here – tracks
everywhere. Community want to raise money
to create tracks here….it’s best when the kids
do it themselves, they build their own tracks in
the woods, good to leave it as a guerrilla
activity!’
‘Teenagers – need to
be on-trend, current.
Kids don’t like getting
sweaty.’
#normal
#motivation
#fun#affirming
experience
23. The Scottish Government
Using a design approach
Useful when:
•No obvious answers
•Stuck!
•There is space to try a new
approach
•Want to challenge the
status quo
Challenges are:
•Giving permission,
committing resources to a
whole process without
knowing what the end
result will be
•Reactive vs planned work
– where do our resources
go?
•What do we see as risk
and when do we take it?
You will know this off by heart!
Business Strategy progress report:
We feel a more creative organisation - open and networked, empowering, innovative and ready to challenge orthodoxies.
How was that? Was it more productive with constraints?
http://lateralaction.com/articles/thinking-inside-the-box/
the biggest secret of productive creative people is that they embrace obstacles, they don’t run from them. In their minds every setback is an opportunity, every limitation is a chance. Where others see a wall, they see a doorway.
This is a distillation of a piece of social research that was undertaken to understand what other creative organisations do. We’ve divided this insight into 4 themes that we think contribute to us achieving the undertaking of worthwhile public sector work.
Only a snapshot today – more on our Saltire pages/sign up for newsletter/network
First bullet – big part is about networks
Only one project – design thinking
This is the design approach in a nutshell.
Discover- explore the question you are asking. This involves using desk research, and also places a real emphasis on understanding people’s experience to lead you to understanding the problem better.
Define – bringing back all your findings and reframing, dissecting the problem until you have identified a variety of issues and decided on which part of the problem you wish to act. This is articulated as needs that need to be met in order to solve the issues.
Develop - develop as many ideas as possible in response to the unmet needs. These have to be tested back with people and prototyped, refined – this is exploring what might work.
Deliver – turning your developed idea into a reality.
The emphasis of the approach lies in:
staying with the question – talking to people about not having an answer
Human experience is at the centre of understanding and solving issues
Be prepared for the issue to be redefined
Iteration on a small scale.
It’s definitely not a linear process! The framework is a starting place, a guide, not a restrictive set of rules.
Why? – A need to explore how to radically increase the number of people in Scotland who are active.
The perspective of how to do this started out being one of some kind of communication initiative but clearly is not what is required. Also in the context of a restricted resources climate as well as a more discerning public who ask we are not solving this? Design thinking is seeking new processes that will make things both more efficient and more user-friendly – need to do this in PA policy
Going back and thinking about fit for purpose – what we have designed and delivered – is it fit for purpose?
Getting a bit of outside help!
We spent time at the beginning developing a shared understanding of what we meant by getting people active.
This took us into:
Assumptions we all had about what activity is
Assumptions about how government interventions can (or can’t!) make a difference
What we think the route causes of not being active are
Hearing stories from friends and family that opened us up to using experience as a vehicle for understanding how to get something to happen.
Discover – going out and truly exploring the problems, issues, success with no answer in mind – our mission was to listen!
Felt very different to us – much more collaborative.
We themed what came out of the field work, pulling out useful quotes and assigning them at least one #theme.
We then analysed all the information within each #theme to start to articulate all the unmet needs.
We identified around 25 different unmet needs based on our expert knowledge and our field work. These overlapped with each other and are just our starting point for working out where to concentrate.
Yes and no. Actually it’s about adding something extra to what we already do. In particular:
Listening to and becoming immersed in understanding the user experience and need. Seeing this as valuable and valid evidence.
Seeing a problem from lots of perspectives and not narrowing down to find a solution quickly.
Connecting any issue to the totality of a person’s life rather than just focussing on that particular aspect of their life. Lots of synergies here to public sector reform.
Deliberate attention to widening and narrowing the thinking process.
Taking time to do the beginning bit!
Being informal in ways of working together – you don’t need a steering group, formal agenda, project plan from day 1.