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The era of development mutants?
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“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
- Jack Welch
Welcome to Flatland
Source: Valve Employee Handbook
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Innovation to prevent decline
Innovation to sustain the old in new, remade formInnovation in new niches
Creating the new normal
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A development sector stress test
Source: ODI, Horizon 2025
Embracing mutants & hybrids
1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination
New design principles
• Mapping assets, not needs• Multiple parallel experiments
Where does project design start?
“By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men”
– G. K. Chesterton
The community mirror
The curse of linear planning
Multiple parallel experiments
1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination
• You don’t know where the “smart people” are • You don’t know how good these people are • Most of them will never want to work for
you because they find your organization:a) too boringb) too callousc) too unrewarding ord) too irrelevant (or a combination of all of the above!)
The non-contractibles
Source: Carliss Baldwin
A growing list
• Hackathons• Innovation Labs• Social innovation camps• Challenges• Pre-commercial procurement• FabLabs• GovJams• Timebanks
Big data collaboratoria
1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination
Investing in the [in]plausible
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The subtraction game
1. The meeting room 2. Needs assessment3. The Ideal State4. Capacity building5. The log frame6. The Project7. The donor8. National boundaries
1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination
@gquaggiotto
Let’s embrace the mutants