Could this guide us towards a structured approach for assessing the level of community involvement in SBC programmes? At the highest level, “Citizen Control“, communities independently lead programmes with full decision-making authority. “Delegated Power“ and “Partnership“ designate significant community influence on programme decisions, either through majority control or collaborative governance. In contrast, “Placation“, “Consultation“, and “Informing“ indicate lower degrees of participation, where community input may be sought but is not necessarily instrumental in shaping outcomes.
In their landmark 1959 report often referenced in leadership theory, social psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven pinpointed five bases of power:
Legitimate: when people perceive that your rank in a formal hierarchy—e.g., manager, CEO, or president—gives you the right to “prescribe” their behavior
Reward: when people perceive your ability to distribute rewards for completed tasks or met goals
Coercive: when people perceive your ability to distribute punishments and disincentives (the opposite of reward power)
Expert: when people perceive your special knowledge or expertise, which causes them to defer to your expertise
Referent: when people feel “oneness” with you or a desire to be like you, leading to their respect and admiration of you
Referent power is considered the most potent because it doesn’t require that a leader micromanage, use coercion, or reward to influence others. People follow a leader with referent power based on who the leader is and how they behave. According to French and Raven, referent power has the broadest range of influence of any power, allowing it to be leveraged on a large scale.
The new toolkit crosses local, central and international government action. It has many of the elements of the previous framework but also covers new ground. The most obvious is that we have changed the horizontal axis to better reflect the way government works in practice. This has meant including a number of new areas namely, influencing, engaging, designing, developing, resourcing, delivering and controlling (or managing).
The vertical axis still follows the same logic from ‘softer’ more collaborative power at the top, down to more formal government power at the bottom of the axis. The update includes many familiar things from nudging behaviour to convening power and also adds new areas like deliberative approaches such as citizen juries.
This is the framework for Policy Lab's new Government as a System toolkit.
The new Government as a System toolkit framework.
When looking across the whole system, it now has 56 distinct actions. Of course this isn’t an exhaustive set of options, you could create more and more detail as there is always more complexity and nuance that can be found in government. Importantly, we want policymakers to be considering how multiple levers are used together to address complex problems.
If you’re trying to think and act more creatively and more critically, focus on asking better, more interesting questions of the briefs you’re tasked with answering. What we teach children can and should be applied to our own professional lives, too. A focus on problems and solutions first, promotes consistent, ‘safe’ answers, but won’t move the work on. Spending time on asking and answering better questions will help refine the understanding of a problem and will create the conditions for new, interesting and challenging solutions.
There are ways that we can overcome the unknown, the uncertain, and the ambiguous to help people feel more confident. The following behavioural insights are all practical examples of how to follow the four guiding stars of navigating uncertainty.
Transparency
Consistency
Managing expectations
Social proof
This is SenseMaker in its most simple form, usually structured to have an open (non-hypothesis) question (commonly referred to as a ‘prompting question’) to collect a micro-narrative at the start. This is then followed by a range of triads (triangles), dyads (sliders), stones canvases, free text questions and multiple choice questions.
The reason or value for using Sensemaker: Open free text questions are used at the beginning as a way of scanning for diversity of narratives and experiences. This is a way to remain open to ‘unknown unknowns’. The narrative is then followed by signifier questions that allow the respondent to add layers of meaning and codification to the narrative (or experience) in order to allow for mixed methods analysis, to map and explore patterns.
While failure in social marketing practice represents an emerging research agenda, the discipline has not yet considered this concept systematically or cohesively. This lack of a clear conceptualization of failure in social marketing to aid practice thus presents a significant research gap.
This is a map of subcultures within an organization (it's called a fitness landscape). It's built from stories told by the people in the organization.
What can you do with it? Understand where the culture(s) are and request changes by saying I want “More stories like these...“ and “Fewer like those...“
Dave Snowden and The Cynefin Company (formerly Cognitive Edge) are offering impactful ways to visualize culture, and communicate direction in a manner that is customized to where each subculture is now and where their next best step is.
Watch this video until 48:48 for more on the science and method (Link at 44:33)
https://lnkd.in/emuAzp6E
Stories collected using The Cynefin Co's Sensemaker tool.
One of the exciting promises of web3 is the idea of decentralized networks, so that one decision maker can’t necessarily take down a platform used by hundreds or thousands, alone. But how do you build that network? How does that fit with your business model? Your marketing goals? If you’re a creator, why would you spend the time developing a corner of this new internet just for your project’s fanbase?
While social media platforms will persist, there’s a layer that has always separated successful, memorable projects from one-hit wonders: fan communities.
Stakeholder analysis identifies those who have influence in a system. It provides
a framework to help understand the needs that they have and how to respond to
those needs.
Trust and Agreement
Stakeholder analysis categorises people according to the amount of agreement
they have for change and the amount of trust they have in the organisation to
make it happen.
An Inclusion Nudge is a design based on insights from behavioural and social sciences to steer the unconscious mind to change behaviour in direction of inclusiveness by targeting the behavioural drivers, judgment and choice processes, and perceptions.
On this page we share practical tools and resources that may help humanitarian organisations in their efforts to innovate in partnership with the private sector.
Publisert 29 nov 2019
Tools for innovative procurement
Step by step guide to innovation friendly procurement
This guide developed with TINKR and The National Programme for Supplier Development takes you through the different steps of doing an innovation-friendly procurement process in the humanitarian sector
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Tools for needs assessment
Needs checklist: This checklist is a tool to evaluate if you have done relevant activities to understand as much as possible about the need/problem you are trying to solve before you move on to the market dialogue.
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Needs matrix: This matrix will help you to describe the needs your project is trying to solve and translate these into criteria you can use in your tender announcement.
Click here to download.
Template for invitation to market dialogue
This is a template that you can use when you are inviting the private sector to a market dialogue:
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Planning template for market dialogue
This template will guide you through the steps of planning and executing a market dialogue.
Click here to download.
Example of an innovation friendly procurement process from the humanitarian sector (The DIGID project)
This is a summary of the innovation firendly procurement process conducted by The Humanitarian Innovation Platform in the DIGID project.
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Resources from the DIGID project
The Humanitarian Innovaiton Platform, consisting of four Norwegian NGOs, have gathered useful resources like call for proposals document, concept note template, etc. from their innovation friendly procurement process.
Go to this page to download other resources.
Tools for scaling innovations
Scaling model, by Tinkr
This report presents the key elements of a scaling framework developed in a collaboration between Tinkr and the Norwegian Red Cross.
Click here to download the scaling impact model.
Tool for scaling, by Tinkr
This tool will help you reflect on the scaling potential for your innovation, formulate your scaling ambition, consider which contextual factors and differences will be key to addressing in our project, and what interventions and stakeholders you can engage throughout the project to increase our likeliness of succeeding with scaling.
Click here to download PPT version, and here to download PDF version.
The scaling scan, by PPP Lab
The scaling scan is apractical tool to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your scaling ambition.
Click here to download the scaling scan.
Tools for business models and IP
Tools for sustainable business models
Register here to receive three useful tools for sustainable business models, developed by Reodor Innovation Studios.
Presentation on intellectual property
What are intangible assets and IP/IPR? How can IP be protected and used? Why does IP matter? Presentation by IP expert Felipe Aguilera-Børresen.
Download presentation here.
Tools for communications
Communications Strategy Canvas:
The canvas will help you kick start your communicaitons strategy for your innovation project.
Click here to download.
Article on communications in innovation projects
Click here to read.
Social media quick tips
The article provides some useful tips on how you can use social media to spark engagement about your innovation projects.
Click here to read.
Reports
Background paper for the conference “Innovative Financing – Business models for sustainable humanitarian action“, organized by Innovation Norway and KPMG on 27th of November 2019*.
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“Leveraging the private sector in the field of protection“. Report by Oxford Research for Innovation Norway*.
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“Humanitarian organisation's use of pro bono services in innovation projects“ - Report by KPMG for Innovation Norway*.
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We argue that other peoples’ failures provide a neglected source of managerial learning that
is associated with enhanced learning transfer. Due to their negative valence, stories about
other peoples’ failures as compared to stories about other peoples’ successes should elicit
a more pronounced motivational response, such that people elaborate the content of failure
stories more actively. As a consequence, the knowledge gained from failure stories will more
likely be applied on a transfer task. We expect this motivational response to failure stories and
its benefits for learning to be most pronounced for people who view failures as valuable
learning opportunities. We report an experimental study, in which participants were exposed
to a managerial training with stories about either managerial successes or managerial
failures that delivered the same learning content. Results showed that stories about
managerial failures led to more elaboration and learning transfer, in particular for
participants who see the learning potential of failures. We discuss how failure stories can be
used to stimulate managerial learning in educational and organizational settings.
In this chapter we explore three approaches to ensuring that an effective intervention does lead to impact: they are scaling, dissemination, and knowledge translation. Each pathway can increase your impact - i.e., desired behaviour and societal change - but approach this goal from different directions and with emphasis on different activities and outputs. We will introduce you to the three approaches before deep diving into when and how to apply each approach.
On the whole, however, these behavioral interventions have been somewhat underwhelming, exposing an inherent brittleness that comes from three common “errors of projection” in current behavioral design methodology: projected stability, which insufficiently plans for the fact that interventions often function within inherently unstable systems; projected persistence, which neglects to account for changes in those system conditions over time; and projected value, which assumes that definitions of success are universally shared across contexts. Borrowing from strategic design and futures thinking, a new proposed strategic foresight model—behavioral planning—can help practitioners better address these system-level, anticipatory, and contextual weaknesses by more systematically identifying potential forces that may impact behavioral interventions before they have been implemented. Behavioral planning will help designers more effectively elicit signals indicating the emergence of forces that may deform behavioral interventions in emergent COVID-19 contexts, and promote “roughly right” directional solutions at earlier stages in solution development to better address system shifts.
What makes a good kickoff
Knowing your team
Before the kickoff
The project kickoff agenda
Kickoffs as a data-gathering exercise
Facilitation tips
Next steps
Prioritizing work into a roadmap can be daunting for UX practitioners. Prioritization methods base these important decisions on objective, relevant criteria instead of subjective opinions.
This article outlines 5 methods for prioritizing work into a UX roadmap:
Impact–effort matrix
Feasibility, desirability, and viability scorecard
RICE method
MoSCoW analysis
Kano model
These prioritization methods can be used to prioritize a variety of “items,” ranging from research questions, user segments, and features to ideas, and tasks.
I propose a four-stage model below that balances an understanding that each part is essential with the need to break it down into units of work that can be spread across internal teams and external vendors when necessary. But be warned: each handoff increases the potential for loss, particularly when there is an incomplete understanding of the adjoining stages. A tightly integrated process managed by people who understand the end-to-end process will always have the greatest likelihood of creating meaningful behavior change; that we can name the parts should not detract from the need for a whole.
Behavioral Strategy: the defining of a desired behavioral outcome, with population, motivation, limitations, behavior, and measurement all clearly demarcated. Plain version: figuring out what “works” and “worth doing” mean in behavioral terms by collaborating with stakeholders.
Behavioral Insights: the discovery of observations about the pressures that create current behaviors, both quantitative and qualitative. Plain version: figure out why people would want to do the behavior and why they aren’t already by talking to them individually and observing their behavior at scale.
Behavioral Design: the design of proposed interventions, based on behavioral insights, that may create the pre-defined behavioral outcome. Plain version: design products, processes, etc. to make the behavior more likely.
Behavioral Impact Evaluation: the piloting (often but not always using randomized controlled trials) of behavioral interventions to evaluate to what extent they modify the existing rates of the pre-defined behavioral outcomes. Plain version: figure out whether the products, processes, etc. actually make the behavior more likely.
Behavioral Science: combining all four of those processes. Plain version: behavior as an outcome, science as a process.
In order for the software that supports collaboration and automation in production workflows to interoperate, common data models and schemas for data exchange are needed. MovieLabs and its member studios developed it’s Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) to improve communication about workflows between people, organizations, and software. The OMC can serve as the underpinnings for that by providing consistent naming and definitions of terms, as well as ways to express how various concepts and components relate to one another in production workflows.
The cultivation of experiences of awe. Like gratitude and curiosity, awe can leave us feeling inspired and energized. It’s another tool in your toolkit and it’s now attracting increased attention due to more rigorous research.
Getting to a “center with no sides” state is great. This is where my coachee was trying to get her team to - thinking of solutions to their central, big hairy goal. But it doesn’t come for free...you have to build up to that conversation. First she had to get them to locate themselves as *in* vs outside the circle of the question. Once they were aligned with the goals...that’s where the magic of the third conversation comes in.
Leading powerful, transformational change requires the ability to facilitate three essential conversations, to answer three key questions:
What is in and what is out? Ie, what are we talking about and what are we not going to talk about? Who is in and who’s out? Are we all in?
What is our center with no sides? Ie, what is the most central question we are hoping to solve together?
How can we dance on the edge of possibility? Once we know what we are talking about, and our most central question, how can we look past what’s possible to solve this challenge?
Costing is the process of data collection and analysis for
estimating the cost of a health intervention. High-quality
cost data on SBC are critical not only for developing
budgets, planning, and assessing program proposals,
but can also feed into advocacy, program prioritization,
and agenda setting. To better serve these data needs,
these guidelines aim to increase the quantity and quality
of SBC costing information. By encouraging cost analysts to use a standardized approach based on widely
accepted methodological principles, we expect the SBC
Costing Guidelines to result in well-designed studies
that measure cost at the outset, to allow assessment
of cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost ratios1
for SBC
programming. Such analyses could also potentially help
advocates for SBC to better make the case for greater
investment in SBC programming.2
These guidelines lay
out a consistent set of methodological principles that
reflect best practice and that can underpin any SBC
costing effort.
The most common question I get on responsible design: ‘How do I actually embed ethical considerations into our innovation process?’ (They don’t actually phrase it like that, but you know… trying to be concise.)
Although I don’t love cramming a multifaceted field like ethics into a linear diagram, it’s helpful to show a simple process map. So here’s my attempt.
TL;DR: A framework for having hard conversations with stakeholders and teams. Especially useful where there’s disagreement on what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, prioritisation, and what success looks like. You should be able to get people using this in 10 minutes or less.
Consequence Scanning – an agile practice for Responsible Innovators
A timely new business practice; Consequence Scanning fits alongside other agile practices in an iterative development cycle. This is a dedicated time and process for considering the potential consequences of what you’re creating