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Reflections from Developing the Simplified Vision Canvas
This post is by Allison Khaw, an ITK Facilitator at MITRE. The original Mission & Vision Canvas is a staple of the Innovation Toolkit—it addresses a common need, it’s impactful, and it’s fun. The Mission & Vision Canvas helps you develop new Mission and Vision...
Recent Posts
What Still Works?
Sometimes, the key to understanding a problem requires paying attention to what IS working.
40 Books I Love
This week’s post is a list of books for your perusal. Just titles & authors, no descriptions (you’ll have to look those up yourself). Enjoy!
Writing Is Hard
Do you ever have a hard time figuring out what to write? Join the club! This week’s blog post looks at last week’s blog post and explores the difficulty of writing a short piece…
TRIZ Prism
This week we’re featuring a solution-oriented tool, the TRIZ Prism (there’s even a video!)
The Maintenance Question
I recently came across a question that's been bouncing around in my head ever since: "What does it take to maintain that?" It's a good question to ask about anything you come across, from a building or a bridge or a website to a process or a cultural norm or a high...
Feedback
Can we talk about feedback for a moment? When you make something and share it with the world (an activity I highly recommend!), you're creating a situation where people might express an opinion about what you created and shared. That's kinda the goal and often is...