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The Startup

·Jan 30, 2020

The future of creativity and invention lies in loss

An edited version of this can be found at Nesta.org.uk In the run up to FutureFest colleagues at Nesta asked me to blog on the future of creativity and invention. …

Creativity

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The future of creativity and invention lies in loss
The future of creativity and invention lies in loss
Creativity

6 min read


Oct 27, 2019

Our Need for Narrative

And the different ways we tell and consume stories today — Human beings have a need for narrative. Stories are how we make sense of the past, rationalise the present and create the future. They are also the fabric that knits communities together through foundational tales, metaphors and shared meaning. Both how we tell stories and how we consume them has…

Storytelling

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Our Need for Narrative
Our Need for Narrative
Storytelling

6 min read


Oct 19, 2019

Where innovation goes next

The next big innovation won’t be in ideas — it will be in how to make people listen to them — The organisation I work for, Nesta, is a charity focused on supporting social innovation. We’ve done this for the last ten years, raising the profile of great ideas and building capacity in the innovation sector. I increasingly think that innovation in the way we think about it today — new…

Brexit

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Where innovation goes next
Where innovation goes next
Brexit

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FutureGov

·May 24, 2018

Throw away your corporate training plan

Digital transformation is about mindsets, not skills — FutureGov has been designing better public services for the last ten years. We’ve learnt a lot, and one part continues to ring true — you can’t transform a service without transforming the organisation it sits within. Transforming an organisation is fundamentally about working with people to help them do new…

Digital Transformation

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Throw away your corporate training plan
Throw away your corporate training plan
Digital Transformation

4 min read


May 23, 2018

Want to know how your team really works? Set them a playful brief.

Teams are living breathing beasts. They have their own traits and characteristics. A while ago I wanted to better understand how a team I worked in worked so I invited them over for dinner, with a twist. Of all the team building, Myers-Briggs analysing, preference sharing exercises I’ve ever done…

Food

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Want to know how your team really works? Set them a playful brief.
Want to know how your team really works? Set them a playful brief.
Food

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Designing Good Things

·Feb 20, 2018

Forget policy — start with people

No one ‘delivers policy’. — I sometimes think of myself as a reformed policy wonk. Since my early career in a think tank I’ve become more and more disenchanted with the idea of policy: policy making, policy setting, influencing policy, delivering policy. For me, all of this starts in the wrong place — think tanks…

Government

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Forget policy — start with people
Forget policy — start with people
Government

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Designing Good Things

·Feb 19, 2018

Natural innovators vs professional innovators

Avoiding making a professional class of problem solvers — If you work in a design, research or policy capacity you’re what I call a professional innovator. You’ll have learnt a series of processes and techniques and a way of thinking to help you work through tricky problems and come up with new ways of approaching things. It’s easy to…

Design

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Natural innovators vs professional innovators
Natural innovators vs professional innovators
Design

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Dec 4, 2017

Universal Credit still presents opportunities

Here are two ways government should be take advantage of the new system — Let there be no confusion here: digital welfare is a good thing. It’s a vast improvement on a paper or proxy service. Countless people struggled with the old system and when I was with Citizens Advice we would spend hours translating lengthy, jargon-filled forms into something that could be understood…

Digital

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Universal Credit still presents opportunities
Universal Credit still presents opportunities
Digital

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Designing Good Things

·Sep 5, 2017

Designing our practice

The principles we work by — Growing a design studio at Good Things Foundation has given the team an opportunity for us to think deeply about how we work and how we practice design for the specific problems we are trying to solve. This meant looking at three things: How design thinking builds on and complements…

Design

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Designing our practice
Designing our practice
Design

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Designing Good Things

·Jun 16, 2017

A human-centred theory of change

We’re using emotion mapping to understand what really makes a difference in social interventions — I’ve lived without a shower or hot water for the past week after moving house. It’s not been that bad — swimming one morning and washing at a friend’s the next. But it added an extra layer of planning to each day and disrupted my fairly simple morning routine, where…

Social Change

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A human-centred theory of change
A human-centred theory of change
Social Change

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