Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation – Medium

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Navigation Metaphors for ‘Impact’

Over the last decade the idea of ‘having an impact’ has taken flight as a strategy and an outcome — and suddenly it seems that everyone…

May 7

The oldest meaning of ‘impact’ is from Latin, to ‘press closely into something’ — this meaning informs this metaphor. Here we think of impact as going deeper towards some of the roots of the challenges we are working on, going underneath the ‘obvious’ surface symptoms to approach what lies at the heart of those challenges. It is also about fostering deeper dialogue, relationships and mindsets that enable a depth of understanding to emerge to better support transformational work.

May 7

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Re-imagining the ‘boring bits’ #1

Reflections from our conversation with Indy Johar of Dark Matter Labs about moving forward a boring revolution

Apr 17

Re-imagining the ‘boring bits’ #1

Apr 17

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Learning about learning

Insights from developing monitoring, evaluation and learning practices in a dynamic systems context

Jan 10

Learning about learning

Jan 10

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Challenge-led Innovation Workbook

Organising for Systems Innovation at Scale

Dec 6, 2023

Dec 6, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Right Scaling

7 everyday patterns to shift systems

Nov 9, 2023

A graphic with a tree in its centre where the part above ground represents what we can see of the system, and the roots represent structures, practices, spaces + interactions, behaviours, mindsets and values that need to shift to shift the system.

Nov 9, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Using the Three Horizons framework to seed futures for wellbeing

This piece is part of our visualising change series (read more about it here). It was written in 2023 and reflects our thinking at that…

Nov 2, 2023

The Three Horizons reimagined as seeding collective imaginations towards transitions, focusing on nurturing conditions for existing saplings to flourish, making visible existing seeds and saplings of the future, creating and investing in a transition ‘seed bank’ that fosters both collective imagination and experimentation, embedding a strong culture of adaptation and seeding collective imagination and the supporting conditions to enable them

Nov 2, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

What if care economies really cared?

Questions to stimulate collective imagining

Nov 1, 2023

A graphic that asks ‘what if care economies really cared’. It represents the care economy as encompasing aged care, health care, social care + welfare, child care and caring for Country. It imagines better future systems related to Infrastructure, Investment, Value creation and Workforce. It asks us to imagine things like ‘what if we were to account for the social value created through a thriving care economy across generations?’

Nov 1, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Connecting to place & being in place

7 everyday patterns to shift systems

Oct 13, 2023

Connecting to place & being in place

Oct 13, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Learning how to BE more like a jazz band

Patterns of connection + creativity in distributed leadership

Sep 19, 2023

sketch images of musicians with words highlighting the three foundations: Regular beats, Metronome and Experimenting with Rythms

Sep 19, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation
in
Good Shift

Form, Function and how we might grow infrastructures for impact

Design in motion

Sep 14, 2023

Form, Function and how we might grow infrastructures for impact

Sep 14, 2023

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation

Griffith University's Centre for Systems Innovation exists to accelerate transitions to regenerative and distributive futures through systems innovation

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams