Shift

The BIF team recently visited Castle Family Health Center in Atwater, CA and Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago, IL where we conducted interviews with the health centers’ leaders, staff, and patients. As we began to analyze and synthesize our findings, a few emerging curiosities came to the surface.

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.

It’s crystal clear to me that stories are fundamental for insight and imagination. They help us digest and synthesize the complexity around us.

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.

Listen in as Rita J. King discusses ways we can all tap into our own innate creativity, what we can do about a shifting technological future, and the power of thinking outside our own traditional silos to better ourselves personally, professionally, and for the organizations, we belong to.

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.