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The D4 Approach To Innovation
New ITK team member Conor Mahoney introduces his D4 approach to innovation – Discovery, Deliberation, Deconstruction, and Development – and shows how to use ITK tools at each step.
Recent Posts
Introducing the updated ITK PAINstorming!
As part of Team Toolkit’s collaboration with the MITRE Social Justice Platform, we are excited to announce the equity-lens update to ITK PAINstorming! ITK PAINstorming helps improve your team’s understanding of a user’s behaviors, pain points, assumptions, and needs....
Stakeholder Toolchains
The Innovation Toolkit has 5 stakeholder-related tools, and now that you know which one to use and when, the question becomes: How can I create an ITK Stakeholder Toolchain? As a quick refresher, Toolchains involve using a series of ITK tools in sequence, where the...
ITK & Health Leadership Development
This week's post is by Tracey Amos In early May, MITRE's Health Leadership Development team partnered with the Innovation Toolkit (ITK) team to deliver a weeklong Innovation Toolkit training series focused on hands-on use of several of the most popular Innovation...
Which ITK Stakeholder tool should I use and when?
Tips on selecting from the 5 different ITK stakeholder tools - - - Planning for stakeholders falls into three general steps: Identifying who is a relevant stakeholder; Assessing which stakeholders to engage with; and Assessing the optimal engagement approach. The...
The Challenging Practice of Silence
Today's post is by soon-to-be certified ITK Facilitator Casey Creech I learned an important lesson about facilitation in 9th grade English class. I wanted help spelling a word. I don’t remember the word. I do remember my teacher handing me the dictionary. She said,...
Introducing the new ITK Stakeholder Power Categories tool!
ITK just launched a new tool – the Stakeholder Power Categories tool! We’re excited to introduce it in this week’s post!