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Design Thinking

Case Study
Plan International
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls around the world. Their challenge and opportunity was to design with and for the Indian diaspora community in the US to prototype a new model for better engaging existing and acquiring new members to support their global mission.
Minds That Move Us with Business Innovation Factory
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Minds That Move Us
The Minds that Move Us initiative challenges communities to design innovative education and training models that create social equity and economic mobility, driven by the market demands of business and industry as well as the needs of youth and adult learners.
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National Association of Community Health Centers
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) serves as the national health care advocacy organization for America’s medically underserved and uninsured and the community health centers that serve as their health care home.
Reimagining the Disability
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Reimagining the Disability Services System in RI
BIF kicked off a new project with The Sherlock Center on Disabilities and five service providing agencies in RI to reimagine the services offered to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state.
Public Healthcare
Blog
Announcing: Personalized Medicine by Design
Business Innovation Factory (BIF), in collaboration with The School of the Possible founded by Dave Gray, Hatch founded by Yarrow Kraner, and Overlap founded by Michael Dila, is launching a project to explore the opportunity for a transformational personalized medicine business model.
Video
Dave Gray: Using Illustration to Design More Flexible Companies
Visual thinking pioneer Dave Gray's practices brought illustration into the c-suite to help design more flexible and innovative companies.
Video
Alexis Hope: Designing With Intention for Equitable Practices
Build out of equal parts passion and mischief-making, Alexis is seeking to design for all women, not just the 1%, to make the breast pump not suck through community and placemaking.
Video
Marcel Botha: The Right To Move
Movement is a fundamental right that we all should have. Botha is finding a way to bring autonomy via accessible tech advances to those utilizing wheelchairs as their primary source of mobility.
Podcast
Beth Comstock: Changemaking Through Creativity
A true leading thinker and doer, Comstock joins us as a true innovation junkie to talk through what it means to have curiosity in the workplace today, the fluidity we should all be adopting in our personal and professional lives as well as the true meaning of transformational change.
Blog
10 Steps to Transform the Patient Experience
The healthcare industry is disrupting and many organizations are struggling to keep up with the times. Often times, business model transformation feels harder than it has to be. Business model innovation isn’t about practices, it’s about next practices.
Design + Strategy at Business Innovation Factory
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Design + Strategy = A New Good Story
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.
Video
Alexander Osterwalder: Tools and Skills are the Key to Effective Innovation
"BIF has managed to create an amazing community of smart and creative people that inspire me every time I participate."
Podcast
Philip Sheppard: Draft Ugly, Edit Beautifully
Sharing his passion, purpose, and inspiration, Philip Sheppard goes beyond the notes as he stops by for an in-house recording session, complete with a few previews of his latest work.
Blog
Voices of the Innovative Learning Network (ILN)
While healthcare leaders understand the imperative of business model innovation, it is often scary to disrupt a large system that has been in place for years. When the motto of healthcare is “do no harm,” it is hard to be the guinea pig to test out new business models and next practices. Our goal was to help them make the business model innovation process safer and easier to manage.
Blog
Revitalizing a Community through Citizens’ 100K Ideas
This (100k Ideas) is our favorite type of model here at BIF because it taps into what we call “the gold in the grey space” — working across sectors and industries to meet true citizen needs while transforming each of the latter.
Eli MacLaren at BIF2017
News
BIF to Co-Host and Facilitate a Business Model Bootcamp at #ILN2018 In-Person Meeting
BIF to facilitate a Business Model Bootcamp for over 200 healthcare leaders as part of a three-day in-person meeting focused on innovation that enables the transformation of the healthcare space to focus more on patients and their families.
Video
Neri Oxman at BIF5: The Broken Model Theory of Innovation
By letting materials tell their own stories, the form-finding (not form-making) artist, architect and material ecologist shares a few brilliant examples of her work.
Podcast
Scott Pulsipher: Redefining the Higher Education Model
President of Western Governors University, Scott Puslipher is a true transformation agent who doesn't accept what is and who imagine what could be.
Blog
Platforms for Collaborative Innovation
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.
Podcast
Jeanne Liedtka: Strategically Blending Strategy and Design
Know around the world for her work in strategic design thinking and organic growth, Liedtka has been a leading thinker and pioneer in the field of corporate strategy for the past 30 years and was at the forefront of utilizing the strategies and principals we use today.
Blog
The Business Model Imperative in Education
One of the most difficult experiences for those in education is to understand challenges within our system but have no method for creating meaningful, transformative change.
Blog
Our Health Imperative: A Methodology to Get From ‘Now’ to ‘Next’
Our health system has the ability to accelerate society’s path to what’s ‘next’ — a next that holds the promise of focusing on health rather than health care or, better yet, sick care.
Blog
Converting Emerging Tech Into Next Practices
Emerging technologies don’t deliver value in the real world until they’re converted into capabilities. If they’re constrained by the straightjacket of today’s business model, they will deliver tweaks at best.
Blog
Introducing BIF’s Design Methodology for Next Practices and New Business Models
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.
Blog
Three Things Are Changing: 1) The Market 2) BIF 3) Me
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!
Next Practices vs Best practices
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Next Practices Vs. Best Practices
It is not best practices, but next practices that will sustain your organization on a strong growth trajectory. While you continue to pedal the bicycle of today’s business model make sure that no less than 10% of your time and resources is dedicated to exploring new business models and developing next practices.
Case Study
Children’s Wellness Experience
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.”
Dancing at Business Innovation Factory Collaborative Innovation Summit
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Lois Kelly Speaks on the Power of #RCUS
At the BIF Summit, you can leave your language at the door and just talk. - Lois Kelly
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