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Brokering Consensus On Failure
ITK isn’t just for work projects. In this week’s post, Gabby shares a story of using the Premortem tool as she and her husband look to buy a house.
Mise En Place
If you've ever watched an instructional cooking show, you have probably seen the chef or host say something along the lines of "Now we add two tablespoons of cinnamon..." as they reach for a small conveniently placed bowl that contains just the right amount of the...
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...
Lotus Blossom Tool Tips
The Lotus Blossom ideation tool is one of the most popular in the toolkit, and it's also one of the simplest. This is a great way to help a team quickly come up with a large quantity of high quality ideas, in a format that is structured, binned, and categorized. A...
The Double Diamond
The double diamond is a well-known visual map of the design process starting with the challenge at hand and ending with a final solution. The process pairs divergent thinking (where the participants come up with many ideas) with convergent thinking (narrowing the...