Social innovators now routinely turn to the process of prototyping as a low cost, low risk and fast way to develop and test complex challenges While there are an increasing number and variety of resources available on how to create prototypes, there are relatively few thorough resources on how to...
Learning is an outcome in social innovation. In order to make progress on a tough issue, social innovation must interact with it, try things out., perhaps fail, and try again. And in the process, they learn more about the nature of the challenge they are trying to address, the systems...
Getting a handle on the difference between simple, complicated and complex problems, and being clear on how each require a different style of leadership and management, is one of the first tasks for social innovators. The agreement-certainty matrix is one of several tools that can help....
Developing and testing promising ideas through prototyping is becoming a 'mainstream' practice of social innovators. Ironically, there are few resources out there to help them evaluate their efforts. This resource helps fill the gap....
Good evaluation guides are hard to come by. This one focused on how to assess advocacy and policy change efforts is one of the best....
It's notoriously tricky to capture the unintended outcomes of efforts to tackle tough challenges. Outcome Harvesting can help....