It takes the right mix of mindsets & methods to tackle the biggest problems

Mindset

Innovation Mindsets are our DNA, uncovered through 14 years of practice and 2 years of research with the UNSW Future Minds Lab.

4 Critical Attitudes

There are four foundational attitudes that guide our innovation practices, structures & methods.

  • Positive Ambiguity sits at the heart of the Innovation Leadership Mindset. It means embracing the ambiguity that is required to enter the uncharted waters where breakthrough innovation can take place.

  • Everyday Empathy sits at the heart of the Innovation Discovery Mindset. It’s about getting out of our comfort zone, engaging with people in the real world and walking in their shoes to understand their deeper motivations, needs and tensions.

  • Constructive Troublemaking sits at the heart of the Innovation Collaboration Mindset. It comes from marrying ‘authentic dissent’ with the power of nurturing other people’s thinking, to generate new thinking, and push through into tangible, feasible and viable solutions.

  • Fearless Experimentation sits at the heart of the Innovation Learning Mindset. It’s all about understanding how to develop innovative ideas and quickly prototyping them in order to pivot, strengthen and evolve.

If your organisation needs an Innovation Mindset, talk to us about projects, training, and organisation design: hello@howtoimpact.com

Method

Problems: Solutions

When producing future-facing work, you need to stretch your understanding of your problem and land a unique solution.

  • Analyse, stretch, explore and explode the starting problem

    Systems thinking

    Strategic planning

    Opportunity definition

  • A deeper discovery process for Innovation Insight to build platforms for ideation

    Human-centered ethnography

    Parallel worlds exploration

    Emotive storytelling 

  • Turning opportunities for innovation into solutions that deliver genuine impact

    Co-design

    Concept development

    Hypothesis-driven experiments

  • FAST iterative exploration of the concept to gauge it’s desirability- viability-feasibility, refine & build a business case

    Scaled prototyping

    Real world pilots

    Capability transfer