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Innovation necessarily involves bringing something new into a team and organisation; therefore, you often won’t have – within your team, or even in your organisation – all the necessary skills, experience and capabilities required to...
Innovation is trying something new, and therefore the possibility of things going wrong is far greater than when you are carrying out ‘business as usual’. Risk management is about identifying and evaluating risk factors, followed by...
They need to be agile, able to change direction (known as ‘pivoting’) and to absorb learning, and they need to be comfortable with this way of working. During your innovation journey, you will find the skills, experience and aptitudes...
Many innovations can be started up using volunteers, with people working extra hours on projects they are passionate about; partnerships can be leveraged, and favours called upon; supplies and materials begged-for and borrowed. In the early days...
Culture in organisations, or across an entire sector, is built on many different factors: behavioural norms, policies, stories, symbols, hierarchy, power, rewards and much more. It can be difficult to articulate what a culture is, but each...
The two exercises in this activity will help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation as a whole, and in particular parts of your organisation.
This activity will help you to understand the problems and opportunities that have already been identified in relation to your area of interest.
An organisation that aspires to be innovative in its approach should have an innovation strategy. An innovation strategy should outline why your organisation innovates, what areas of innovation your organisation will focus on, and how your...
The Humanitarian Innovation Guide is an evolving online resource which will be continuously reviewed, refreshed, and added to, according to newly published research and feedback from existing users – and that’s where you come in. Would you...