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We believe the best way to change things is through cycles of action, reflection, and learning.
Our nature is to do first, learn through doing, share what works, and generate insights on what might be possible next. We want to share what we know, what we're thinking and the resources we create, to enable as many people as possible, to create as much impact as possible.
Find out what we mean by systems innovation and challenge-led innovation and how they're taking shape.
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.
Resources
Challenge-led Innovation Workbook
Our contribution to Mission-oriented Innovation practice. In this open-access workbook we’ve pulled together resources and thinking we’ve been experimenting with and evolving through our own work and with partners.
7 Core Principles of Working in Challenge-Led Innovation
Aiming to innovate in complex situations requires us to engage in a way that helps us grapple with that complexity. Here are seven principles we've come up with to orient ourselves in Challenge-Led Innovation work
Circular Aluminium with Challenge-Led Innovation
This provocation outlines a bold vision for Circular Aluminium in Australia introducing Challenge-Led Innovation as a framework that could be used to support diverse actors to align their efforts.
Challenge-Led Mapping and Three Horizons
In this piece we introduce a graphic and thinking around how Challenge-Led Mapping can intersect with the Three Horizons Framework to help us take a multi-actor and cross-sector view of what will be needed in order to learn our way towards grand challenges.
What if a Business School Organised Itself Around Challenges?
In 2021 we introduced our Challenge-Led approach in this piece which asks 'what would it look like if a Business School within a University organised itself around missions or challenges instead of departments'?
Roadmap to Recovery + Regeneration
Some of our earliest writing on Challenge-Led (Mission-Led) Innovation, proposing a regenerative approach to pandemic recovery.
Problem Framing Canvas
Before you start mapping your 'solution' have you checked you're working on the right problem? Our canvas helps you develop important skills to analyse problems, and reflect, test and learn towards possible responses.
Re-patterning for Systems Change
This blog introduces seven patterns we have identified across the work of The Southern Initiative in South and West Auckland that go some way to making visible, active re-patterning for equity and power sharing. Our aim is to generate different kinds of dialogues to nudge public systems towards more just, equitable, diverse responses to some of our most challenging dilemmas.
Shaping Innovation Futures Discovery Report
A joint exploration to uncover enablers and constraints of systems initiatives, to draw out attributes and patterns to inform the design of innovation infrastructure in Australasia.
Design Foundations for Systems Capital
A provocation and exploration of how capital allocation could be better attuned to the interconnected nature of the world around us, and the systems which determine our quality of life and sustain all living things.
New public governance: Frameworks for supporting transformative social innovation
This paper authored by A/Prof Joanne McNeill is a deep dive into innovation within nested systems through institutional innovation practices.
Moving systems capital from concept to practice
This blog shares some of the tensions we've grappled with when moving from a conceptual to a practical space while walking alongside Regen Melbourne's Swimmable Birrarung challenge, exploring how a systems finance approach could support its realisation.
Systemic Investing for Social Change
This piece published in Standford Social Innovation Review was co-authored with peers from TransCap Initiative and MIT Sloan Sustainability Iniative and shares some introductory framing around the essential attributes of systemic investing.
Systems Mindsets + Practice for Social Enterprise
This provocation was commissioned in the lead up to the 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum to explore some of the concepts, mindsets and approaches that might shape a systems and complexity-informed approach to social enterprise.
A pragmatic approach to demonstrating impact
While there's widespread agreement that impact measurement is important it can be difficult to know where and how to start. Based on our work with social enterprise Substation 33 we share here six steps for impact-led organisations to start measuring and sharing their impact straight away.
Anchor approaches: Collaboration in Practice
A four-part series with LGiU exploring opportunities for Local Government to grow local productivity and place-based wellbeing by intentionally adopting Anchor approaches.
Universities as Anchors in Place
In this provocation we suggest the mixture of research, learning, and engagement activities - combined with asset and investment profiles, underpinned by a civic-benefit imperative - make universities uniquely placed to champion and facilitate regenerative approaches to (re)building local economies and communities.
Seeding Futures for Wellbeing
This booklet is intended as a ‘collective imagination starter pack’. It asks and shares suggestions to answer the question 'How might we harness our collective imaginations to support the acceleration of transitions towards positive futures?'
Three Horizons Framework
We find the Three Horizons method a useful framework with which to challenge and open up linear views of change. It helps us get clearer about the potential that lies in the present and how we could imagine the future. This piece explores how we combine it with Challenge-Led Mapping.
A guide to Impact Enterprise
Exploring the characteristics, applications and diversity of organisations that use business to creative positive societal impact.
Introduction to the Impact Economy
The case for an 'impact economy' brings together a number of progressive ideas, strategies and practices that are gaining traction and challenging the prevailing model of capitalism.
Impact Investment Provocations
A sample of our earlier thinking at the Centre around the limitations of Impact Investment. A bedrock for current explorations around systems capital.
Business Model Canvas for Social Enterprise Design
This is the second edition of the BMC for SE, first published in 2013 by Prof. Ingrid Burkett. It outlines how she has used, tested and learnt about the Business Model Canvas in designing and growing social enterprises. This version talks about Impact Enterprise and is updated with content Ingrid uncovered in the years between 2013-2020.
Innovating Towards Quality Jobs
Among increasing calls for quality jobs to promote the wellbeing of workers and their families we share nine opportunities to amplify Quality Jobs
Redrawing the economy
Our thoughts and visual representation around new models of how 'value' is established by unpacking and reframing the 'factors of production' towards 'production for wellbeing'.
Invisible Innovation
There is a dominant narrative that the great economic transitions of our time were caused by technological innovation. In this piece we highlight how each major age of transition was actually enabled by institutional and civic innovation, making a case for more focus on these conditions.