Innovation

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…

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…

From natural innovation to professional problem solving

How design adds value to the community sector.

We — Good Things Foundation — are in a unique position. We manage the Online Centres Network. The network started life as a…

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…

What I mean when I talk about the network as a platform for social change

Is Digital Social Innovation for the masses or the few?

Going where the innovation happens

What we learnt from a ‘Minimum Viable Prize’

At Good Things Foundation, we think innovation happens on the ground. It happens in the community centres that we work through, with real people finding answers to…