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Building Your Cadre of Mentors
(Today's post is by Gabby Raymond, one of our new Team Toolkit Trainees!) Finding a good mentor is like getting a personalized self-help book, one that is full of insightful questions and practical guidance tailored to you. A traditional mentor focuses on guiding your...
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...
Want your engineering team to be more innovative? Try this proven improv technique!
Co-Authors: Awais Sheikh, Dan Ward, Niall White The pressure to be “innovative” is at an all-time high for projects, organizations, and companies across all industries. Unicorn companies (startups valued at $1+ Billion) are sought after wide and far, and leaders...
Equity-Driven Design & Innovation
Co-Author: Tammy Freeman How might we ensure equity is inherent in the design process from Day 1? Read on to hear how Team Toolkit is partnering with the Good Trouble Lab as part of MITRE’s Social Justice & Social Innovation initiatives. - - - 2020 has been the...
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...
Simplified Problem Framing Tool
Some friends of ITK created a simplified Problem Framing tool, and we’re excited to share it with you!
