Building stronger tests
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Creating Breakout Innovation
Here you can get promising practices, derived from successful case studies into how we deliver bold innovation and powerful solutions.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
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The Strategic Plan is Dead. Long Live Strategy.
Discover the skills and mindset needed for the modern strategic plan.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Tools & Resources
MeisterTask
MeisterTask is a flexible project management tool designed to adapt to your workflow and make sure everyone is always on the same page.
MeisterTask
Template
Learning Card
Use this template in conjunction with the Test Card to capture insight from your experiments and turn them into actionable learning steps.
Strategyzer
Template
Test Card
Use this template to allow for better customer validation of your experiments and tests. It works with the Learning Card, also from Strategyzer.
Strategyzer
Template
The Progress Board
Effectively manage the whole testing process by monitoring your progress and tracking all your hypotheses, Test Cards, and Learning Cards.
Strategyzer
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When Innovation Goes Wrong
Learn about the challenges organizations face when attempting to turn innovation into impact.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
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A problem is a sign of what is blocking our impact or progress—it is the symptom. An issue is the underlying cause of one or more problems that we can directly address. We must take time to fully understand our problems and issues, and the root causes of both in order to choose the most strategic focus for our learning.
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Teams often begin change projects before they have clarified language, aligned their intent, and determined how a change project will connect to their larger strategic goals. Spending more time clarifying frameworks, developing personal and professional commitment to change, as well as better understanding the outcomes of the project will set a stronger foundation for success.
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We often try to solve a problem without understanding it fully. This is like performing surgery on someone’s leg without understanding how their heart works. Understanding the challenges we’re trying to tackle, and understanding better the world around us, is similarly integral to our change-making efforts.
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Major strategic initiatives need the solid foundation of a healthy organization to flourish. This includes effective internal communications, focused decision-making, useful performance evaluation, life-giving management, and conflict resolution.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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