Why we are hired

Strategic research

  • We enable organizations to understand their challenges and make informed decisions by gathering and analyzing data

  • We utilize a diverse range of methods to collect qualitative data and share emergent insights with stakeholders

  • We help our partners share analytical findings with their stakeholders to conduct ‘sense-making’ about their organizations and empower them to make informed strategic decisions

Design thinking

  • We guide organizations to see their work through alternative lenses and use new approaches to shape the process of transformation

  • We design and test new ideas through a process of prototyping and piloting to produce learning during the innovation process

  • We help our partners improve and refine ideas while taking on acceptable risk to scale practical solutions to complex challenges

Co-production

  • We support organizations to design governance frameworks and develop capabilities for collective problem-solving with diverse stakeholders

  • We facilitate sense-making across multiple perspectives to determine shared values and goals

  • We enable our partners to organize and analyze different sources of knowledge to determine innovative and creating solutions to complex obstacles

System framing

  • We support organizations develop language to name the root challenges they are trying to address

  • We identify core assumptions and beliefs our partners hold about the challenges that constrains action

  • We help our partners define success and imagine potential solutions