Three stories about using jobs-to-be-done to shape what comes next

What people are actually trying to get done

PG #124

A decade of service design in local government

PG #125

Paper surveys, custom OCR software, and inclusive community engagement

PG #123

A message from Chris

Newsletter #122 - End of Year

Dis-information and Digital Guardrails

Newsletter #121

Design for Systems Change

Newsletter #120

The Risks And Opportunities Of AI

Newsletter #119

Data, incentives and human stories

Newsletter #118

Mapping the ripple effects of policy change

Newsletter #117

Paper Giant acquires Impacto Consulting

Newsletter #116

Wishing you an inspiring 2025

End of 2024

New Beginnings

Newsletter #115

Social licensing for generative AI + adaptive clothing + mental & addiction health services

Newsletter #113

Actionable insights + doughnut economics + commemorating loved ones

Newsletter #112

What next for public sector innovation?, the future of sustainable fibres + community legal services

Newsletter #111

Intersectionality in community services + public transport systems + we're hiring

Newsletter #110

A message from our CEO, Dr Chris Marmo

2023 – End of year message

Creating conditions for diverse voices, drug decriminalisation + shaping cities

Newsletter #109

Thinking like a designer, the Indigenous Voice + we're hiring

Newsletter #108

Designing with care, empowering intersex people + Good Design Awards 2023

Newsletter #107

Apologies for the typo

Apologies for the typo (Newsletter #106)

Strategic design for public spaces, ethnics of facial recognition AI + vaping policies

Newsletter #106

Decolonisation of practices, meaningful co-design + improving access to justice

Newsletter #105

Supporting lived experience workforces, tackling food insecurity and building inclusive workplace culture

Newsletter #104

Harnessing AI, LGBTIQ+ service gaps & the arts in a post-pandemic era

Newsletter #103

Futures thinking, climate agreements & Australia's energy security

Newsletter #102

Systems thinking, closing the gender gap & customer-centric futures

Newsletter Issue #101

Remote innovation, future eco-systems and youth mental health

2022: Breathe.

PG Ninety-Nine

PG #98: February is the new January

PG #97: Seed, bud, grow, bloom, seed

PG #96: Resilience and the arts

PG #96: Resilience and the arts

PG #95: The possibilities of collective impact

PG #95: The possibilities of collective impact

PG #94: Weak ties, strong ideas

PG #93: Why buying local doesn’t have to stop when lockdown does.

PG #93: The simple pleasures of buying local.

PG #92: If Satan were an app developer...

PG #92: Instagram for kids? Viewer discretion advised!

PG #91: How games of improv unlock creativity.

PG #90: EVs are still cars

PG #89: It’s not too late

PG #88: Language and power dynamics

PG #87: Boring Magic

PG #86: Staring at horizons is good for our brains

PG #85: Everything has a story. Even a strategy.

PG #84: New models let us imagine new futures

PG #83: The future of design studios

PG #82: Think strategically by thinking fractally

PG #81: How can we better support Australian innovation?

PG #80: The Deficit Myth

PG #79: Thinking cyclically

PG #78: Reframing a crisis response

PG #77: Royal Commissions are systems thinking in practice

PG #72: Tackling short-termism

PG #76: Tackling short-termism

PG #75: Looking beyond the barriers

PG #74: The future of work is hybrid

PG #73: Looking back to look forward

PG #72: Staying with the trouble

PG #71: Design changes the designer. test

PG #71: Design changes the designer

PG #70: Strategy in uncertain times

PG #69: We need humanities experts now more than ever

PG #69: Humanities graduates are “job-ready” – and there’s a lot of work to be done

PG #68: Competing for talent in the post-Covid world

PG #67: Five ways to bring more strategy into your work

PG #66: Vulnerability in the workplace

PG #65: Unaffordable housing is killing the arts

PG #65: High rents are killing the arts

PG #64: “Be ruthless with systems, be kind with people”

PG #63: Building Australia's mental health literacy

PG #62: Asking the right questions

Paper Giant #61: The strategy itch

PG #60: Police are not the solution to problems of inequality

PG #59: Listen, learn, act

PG #58: Remote research – deeper, more collaborative, more inclusive?

PG #57: “We’re all in the same storm but we’re not in the same boat”

PG #56: We can do better than ‘normal’

PG #55: It’s okay to slow down

PG #55: It’s okay to slow down

PG# 54: So much for plans

PG #53: How can we support each other?

PG #52: When you only focus on the problem, you don't see the whole system

PG #52: When you only focus on the problem, you’re not seeing the whole system

PG #51: Cooperation, not competition, is the norm in nature

PG #50: Our power structures are built on fossil fuels

PG #49: Navigate a noisy world by mapping your values

PG #48: Disability & the criminal justice system

PG #47: Data and consent – are designers dropping the ball?

PG #46: Who is allowed to be controversial?

PG #45: We have a responsibility for what we make and how it affects the world

PG #44: How do good companies turn bad?

PG #43: The attention economy

PG #42: The power of personal stories

PG #41: Design education’s big gap

PG #40: Design as a 'model of care'

PG #39: Paying attention to what we already know

PG #38: Compare and contrast

PG #37: The peculiar blindness of experts

PG #36: From self-care to community care

PG #35: Buzzwords vs reality

PG #34: One foot in front of the other

PG #33: The 'dark matter' of design

PG #32: Don't ignore the outliers

PG #31: The power of small, sensitive interventions

PG #30: Turning data into decisions

PG #29: Breaking cycles, creating cycles

What people are actually trying to get done

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