How We Do It

DESIGNING FOR CHANGE REQUIRES FOCUS ON MULTIPLE LEVELS

 

We know what we do doesn’t fit cleanly into a box…

We work across sectors, organizations, and outcomes. The framework we have developed is based on entrepreneurship, innovation, design thinking, implementation science, and community development.

 
 
 
 

We believe that problems are the entry point for most projects and that even the most complex can be tackled through iterative steps. We focus on designing and running pilots as a means to understand smaller parts of larger challenges.

While our backgrounds span design, business, and public health, we prefer to enter all of our work with a generalist mindset. We are not focused on subject matter expertise, but rather stay deliberately broad in our thinking. By working across sectors, we are constantly learning and making new connections for our clients and ourselves. Everyone benefits from our ability to connect seemingly unrelated dots.

Our Process: Open Innovation

Interested in understanding more about Open Innovation, a fundamental tenet of our work? We created a “What is Open Innovation?” animation to simplify some of the basic principles of Open Innovation.

 
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