If you follow the work we do here at Authentic Co-design, you’ll know that one of the things we are passionate about is understanding and supporting organisational readiness before jumping into a co-design project. Last year Susan Carter wrote a blog describing what ‘being ready’ looks like (click through to read Ready, Steady, Co-design) and this year we’ve taken that work even further by preparing a simple Traffic Light Assessment Tool. Using this tool, we have been able to

I’ve been wanting to blog about how we can better scope and define projects for quite some time, especially for authentic co-design. Now we have a tool to move beyond the binary negotiable/non-negotiable approach in development I couldn’t resist any longer. We all know it’s handy when engaging the community, to differentiate between project ‘negotiables’ (what can be influenced) and ‘non-negotiables’ (what cannot be influenced by the process). But being clear on what fits und

As @Max Hardy and I developed the Authentic Co-design process to assist Government, corporations, or community organisations with delivering complex projects and build trust across multiple stakeholders, we found a number of common challenges to why this will not work for you. We all know the feeling of trying something new and suddenly hearing the chorus of people telling you why you should not go on. This is a natural reaction to new ideas. And it is especially important an

About a year ago, I started working with @MaxHardy building an Authentic Co-design process to assist Government, corporations, or community organisations with delivering complex projects and build trust across multiple stakeholders. Most of us have faced the complex project over time – the one with the multiple stakeholders with skin in the game, with complex or uncertain science or technical elements, and with a need to deliver it and at least maintain trust. Often there is