Strategy is the means of connecting our aspirations and resources to our actions and outcomes. Strategy is something we design with our organization's goals, values, assets, people, and customers/clients/patients/partners in mind. Strategic design is the means and positive impact is the end. Over the coming weeks, we'll be walking through the art and science of making strategy and putting it into practice. We are going to explore what the practice of strategy looks like -- from the perspective of leaders and stakeholders at all levels. This multi-layered, systemic and creative approach is what makes it strategic design and not strategic planning.

Let’s get one thing straight: not every shiny new product or feature is an innovation.

Randomized controlled trials are touted as the benchmark for evaluating social programs. The social sector should focus instead on an improvement orientation to evaluating performance. | Open...

The ground-up work to stop US oil and gas expansion and create new climate politics

Sharing our core principles on why good policymaking needs both disciplines working side-by-side

Discover how integrated strategic design in human services enhances efficiency and impact, moving beyond outdated project approaches.

In their new book, leading experts Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter bring academic rigor to organizational responses to employee overload.

Pilots have a pre-flight check before they fly a plane. A developmental evaluation journey requires the same kind of preparedness. Developmental Evaluation (DE) is an approach to strategic learning…

#image_title If you wish to create something new or transform something, you’ll need to design. You must design well if you want that change to achieve something meaningful. What does that me…