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Announcing Our Book!
A peek behind the scenes of Team Toolkit’s new book!
Disaster Recovery
So your recent session was a bust. You tried to do something but it crashed and burned. Let me be the first to say "Congratulations, and welcome to the club!" This situation is pretty much inevitable. Stick around in the innovation space long enough, and eventually...
Should We Be Muting Our Sneezes?
Allison brings us a timely reflection on virtual interactions, inspired by a silent sneeze.
The Hard No
“No” can be a hard word to say. In this post we’ll offer a few tips to make it easier.
Deleting Disposable Drafts
Can I tell you a secret? For every post I publish here, there's at least half a dozen you'll never see. I'm not just talking false starts, where I have a stub of an idea that ends up not going anywhere. I'm talking about whole posts on topics that don't quite land,...
Innovation Tool Kit (ITK): It Really Does Work!
Today's post is by Lynne Cuppernull, one of our new members of the ITK community, plus a brief interlude by Jim Jellison Last September, about 80 MITRE leaders in the Health FFRDC participated in a two-hour introduction to the Innovation Toolkit (ITK)—a collection of...
Introducing the updated Problem Framing Canvas!
Learn more about the equity-driven updates to one of our most popular ITK tools. - - - As part of Team Toolkit’s collaboration with the MITRE Social Justice Platform, we embarked on taking a fresh look at our ITK tools with an equity lens. Equity-driven design...
Clean Water For Communities in Need
Today's post is by guest blogger Riley Fujioka! Did you know that 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water? Or that globally, 1 in 4 healthcare facilities lack basic water services? You can help bring clean water to these underserved...
Collaboration Tips
This week's blog post is by Maria Altebarmakian, one of our new ITK Trainees! By now we have all felt the pain of trying to collaborate and communicate with others remotely. Messages go unseen or unanswered, a train of thought is interrupted by a constant stream of...
Need to build consensus quickly? Try leveraging the Power of Prep
In the world of innovation where moving fast is essential, knowing how to effectively build consensus becomes a superpower. - - - Oftentimes, the most powerful outcome of an ITK session is the team building consensus together. Teams are often in a place of confusion...