Best Practices

Salesforce Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist Tiffani Bova is a powerhouse when it comes to customer success, growth, and transformational innovation. Drawing on decades of experience, she shares insights with us from her new book Growth IQ and how to find success in the face of growing competition.

Making the most out of your #BIF2018 experience: I make a list of no more than 5 insights that are so powerful that I must act on them. I create an intention for what that action looks like, define the barriers and risks of acting in new ways, and I hold myself accountable for starting.

What does fragmentation actually look like? What does integration feel like? And how might we better understand the conditions that must be put in place for us to move towards further integration? Check out our learnings!

Check out this webinar featuring BIF's Chief Market Maker Eli MacLaren and Student Experience Lab Manager Jessica Brown as they unpack the business model imperative for education, BIF's design methodology, and a real-world case study.

If a business model is a network of capabilities woven together into a sustainable financial model, a system is a network of business models that have learned to collaborate. Until organizations learn how to do this, integration in our education system won’t work, and innovations that fundamentally transform outcomes will remain localized and dispersed

As BIF Members, AFIT will access our network of institutional business model innovators in education, health care, and public services to take advantage of opportunities to connect to a steady flow of business model design ideas, practices, and tools.

Throughout this project, we saw powerful glimpses of these conditions in action. They enabled us to go beyond surface level solutions to think more holistically about how school and communities could better learn and grow together.

The first in a series of blog posts focused on how we are seeking to put DEI at the core of business model design. We invite you to join these conversations and to explore how putting DEI at the core of your business model exploration can surface opportunities for transformation.

If you want transformational innovation, you have to find leaders who want transformational change and are receptive to organizing differently for tweaks than for transformation.

What happens if we allowed ourselves to live in in the possibility of "what could be" rather than accepting what is? Leveraging our capacity to build safe spaces for innovation is imperative to unlocking the building blocks of the future.

What does collaborative innovation truly mean? Understanding what it means, and more often than not what it doesn't mean, is imperative to accelerate the pace of change.

Saul Kaplan and Angela Blanchard talk about reinventing communities, starting with the people who live there – by listening to them, learning about their aspirations, and enabling them in the pursuit of their goals.

We live in a time that screams for transformation yet too many institutions are only capable of tweaks. We developed BIF’s Design Methodology because a growing number of institutional leaders know they need a better approach to innovation.

Famous last words; This time it’s different. No really, this time it is. We have arrived at that Malcolm Gladwell tipping point. Well at least I have, and I don’t think I’m alone. Let me make it personal. We each find our own reasons to reach for another gear, to reinvent ourselves, and to do work that matters. My burning platform is comprised of three things that are changing simultaneously: 1) The Market 2) BIF 3) Me. It’s not about me or my three things, it’s about being informed by and engaged in what’s changing around you, being self-aware and intentional about what’s next, getting better faster, and being clear about what’s important and what you value. Whatever your reasons, please hurry up and figure it out, because we need everyone to play, transformation is a team sport and a generative act. It’s go time!

By engaging families in the design and delivery of models, we've learned that families know the challenges they face in striving to be well and what the needs of their communities are.

In partnership with Children’s Health in Dallas, BIF worked to create the Children’s Wellness Experience: a transformative, sustainable model for care that is rooted in human-centered insights, moving us away from a focus on “sick care” to a broader focus on “well care.”