Social Labs
The Future of Labs - Part 4: The Language of Labs
Most people have never experienced a social innovation lab, so how do we talk to these people about what they do and why they're useful?
Experimentation
Fieldnote: Visualising Experiment Portfolios
Let's talk about Experimentation Portfolios. Visualising an array of experiments to see active and latent potential to shift systems through living labs, mission-oriented innovation and challenge precincts.
Field Notes
Capabilities for living labs and impact ecosystems - Part 1
What are the core capabilities needed for living labs and impact ecosystems? Field notes on a capability model.
Field Notes
On Relational Infrastructure
Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.
Systems Change
Challenge-led or Mission-oriented? Exploring collective action approaches to transition, transformation and systems change
What is this 'Mission-oriented Innovation' everyone is talking about? Fieldnotes from a 2 day deep dive workshop into challenge-led approaches.
Systems Practice
On the idea of developing a 'Landscape of Intervention' for systems change work
It is the interplay of intention and emergence which, dancing together, enables us to influence the future of the system towards a desired state.
Narrative Change
Exploring the weaving of Narrative Change & Systems Change
Beyond storytelling as communication about what has happened, toward creating meaning and collective action for intentional change in our world.
Complexity
The 'so what' of complexity - Part III
This post aims to capture some insights and resources which inform how we might approach change work differently than more linear 'cause and effect' planning-based efforts which have dominated the landscape of change work in the last 50 years or so.
Complexity
Obscuring Complexity & Welcoming Trojan Mice
How can we work in organisations that don't see complexxity, if we're committed to embracing complexity in our practice?
Complexity
The 'so what' of complexity - Part I
It's been the best part of 10 years I've been exploring and writing about complexity now - it's about time to capture some of the main learnings about the implications, rather than the substance.
Systems Change
Fieldnotes: Communicating Systems Strategy
This post focuses on developing some good practice patterns for communicating systems change work. I have a particular interest in systems change strategies, which may be early stage or representing organisations in transition to working more systemically.
Complexity
Fieldnotes - Towards Complexity 101
Why are systems thinking and complexity so... complex? In this post I share one activity and 6 resources to help you to be more comfortable in the complexity of our world.