Innovating towards regenerative and distributive futures 

We're working to grow the capabilities, mindsets and infrastructures for better futures. Futures full of thriving ecosystems where every person has what they need to flourish.

We partner with organisations across sectors to create safe and courageous spaces and action learning opportunities to transform 'stuck' systems. Then we take what we're learning to offer boundary-pushing postgraduate courses for adaptive leaders of the future.

If you're ready to take action on bold, transformational systems change and experiment towards innovating your ecosystem, get in touch now.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Griffith's Centre for Systems Innovation is aligned with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) and committed to collaborating with communities and partners to tackle global challenges around reducing poverty through decent work and economic equity, and partnerships for the goals.

A bit about us

Accelerating shifts to regenerative and distributive futures through systems innovation.

An innovation centre with a difference

We're facing complex issues like biodiversity loss, inequality and poor health outcomes. Societal shifts like aging populations and energy transitions. But our institutions and infrastructures are from an industrial era that has passed. They are no longer fit-for-purpose. We're an innovation centre with a difference – we are makers, visualisers and learners. We focus on the often 'invisible' infrastructures that create the foundations for transforming systems. Different forms of institutions, better governance models, systemic resourcing models and better measurement frameworks.

Our focus areas

There are endless ways to transition towards better futures. We are focusing on these three areas of action:

  • How might we activate Civic Innovation towards communities who are supported to imagine and co-create positive futures?
  • How might we shape Institutional Innovation so our institutions are fit-for-purpose to co-create regenerative and distributive futures and filled with people set up to do better?
  • How might we imagine a Systems Capital approach that provides the resourcing models, structures and infrastructures to enable systems innovation?

Your partner for action learning

We work with governments, industry and systems innovation collectives to accelerate complex systems innovation.

We tailor our role depending on your need but most often we offer:

Critical friending: a trusted partner asking provocative questions and offering different lenses. A neutral-party perspective to support navigating emergence and complexity.

Adaptive Learning Co-design: shifting the emphasis of evaluation towards a focus on iteration. Designing cycles for rapid learning and adaptation, reimagining accountabilities and more.

Testing, Experimenting + Learning for portfolio approaches: applying Challenge-led design frameworks to develop emergent learning-oriented Portfolios to support directional shifts.

Deliberative gathering, convening and weaving: reshaping relational dynamics, bringing together ‘strange-and-familiar-bedfellows’ to unpack issues in new ways, drawing out diverse perspectives.

Story translating and building: working with communities, organisations and initiatives, creating and reframing stories to unearth useful patterns that inspire action towards positive change.

Transformational learning and teaching: postgraduate courses and bespoke learning journeys growing the adaptive leaders we need for transitions.

What is systems innovation?

At its most basic, systems innovation is about reimagining and improving the way systems operate to create more impactful outcomes. By taking a broad lens and considering the interconnectedness of various elements, systems innovation seeks to support interconnected responses vs a confetti of singular responses.

Contact Centre for Systems Innovation

Enquiries

Phone
(07) 338 21453
Email
gcsi@griffith.edu.au

Find us

Location and postal address
Centre for Systems Innovation
Logan campus, Griffith University
University Drive, Logan QLD 4111 Australia

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