Scenario planning is not about predicting the future, it is about understanding possible and plausible futures and what their implications might be for a given context or sector and organisations working within it. Scenario planning can be used...
Nesta’s DIY Toolkit provides an excellent activity and template for better understanding and defining those who you intend to reach with potential solutions. According to the DIY toolkit, “Target Group is probably best used when you are...
This tool is based on the idea that people don’t just ‘buy’ products and services, but that they are looking for something to do a particular ‘job’ for them. This change in perspective is intended to make you focus less on the product...
You now have a rich collection of information on context, past efforts or existing services, and the problem at hand. But here we need to move from the what (which is largely a function of exploratory and evaluative analysis) to the why (a...
Equipped with the insights from the ‘Prioritising information and spotting patterns‘ exercise, you and your team can start to develop causal explanations for the problems you are trying to solve:What are the direct and underlying symptoms...
Focus group discussions (FGDs) can be an excellent way to generate information and insights, as well as see where there is agreement in a group and where there are disagreements on the topic you want to discuss. It can be a quicker way of gaining...
So far you have looked at your design criteria, the maturity of your solution and adaptation requirements, but there will be a broader set of considerations that will influence whether your organisation will adopt the solution. A decision matrix...
If you are seeking to influence users and community members to adapt their behaviours in order to benefit from the solution, then it is worth reviewing some of the lessons that have come out of behavioural economics. The EAST framework was...
Coordination is a key aspect of humanitarian action so it is important to understand how best to engage. At a global level and, where deployed, at a national-level, the Cluster system maintains valuable technical oversight of related products and...
Positive Deviance (PD) is a method that helps to identify ‘edge cases’ – people in the crisis-affected community who are tackling a problem in an unusual way. According to Positive Deviance.org, “the Positive Deviance approach is based on...