In this section we highlight intellectual schools of thought that can provide a framework for excellence.
The Flourishing Enterprise Innovation Toolkit is a new set of tools and methods created to help enterprises and their investors to collaboratively design ways to improve their financial, social and environmental performance. The toolkit can help organizations with goals anywhere from purely financial viability to ones “doing good to do well” by enabling the identification of the risks and opportunities relevant to their chosen objectives.
The toolkit uses the proven business model lens to enable leaders to collaborate more effectively to understand, explore, diagnose, improve, design and tell stories about their enterprise in its entirety. At the heart of the toolkit is the Flourishing Business Canvas, a visual design tool that provides a common language and structure for collaborative design. Through economic, social and environmental lenses, the canvas asks the essential questions an enterprise needs to consider in order to work towards flourishing.
While helpful to organizations with any range of goals, the Toolkit and Canvas are specifically created to support business leaders in their efforts to design flourishing enterprises; businesses that are socially beneficial, environmentally regenerative and financially viable. Our vision is a world where human enterprises no longer merely attempt to do less harm, but instead set at their core the goal of sustaining the possibility for human and other life to flourish on this planet for seven generations – contributing to the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond.
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Many traditional practices are no longer delivering the results that are expected or needed. There are pressures to perform, to meet changing expectations of government and to build trust that government can meet the needs of citizens. There is a need to lift productivity and effectiveness, and to work with citizens in new and more inclusive ways. This means that they need to systematically put in place processes for the identification of problems, the generation of ideas, the formalization of business cases, implementation of promising projects, evaluation and the diffusion of results.
An appreciation of the different features of learning for innovation provides a suggested framework for organisations and individuals, revolving around three cascading factors:
Organisations can maximise their learning for innovation by giving consideration to a number of enabling factors, grouped around:
Organisations will also need to ensure that they are connected with, and are learning from, the constant source stream of new information and knowledge being generated in the world. Organisations can do this by considering the different channels by which relevant information reaches the organisation:
A number of tools can also assist with the process of identifying and learning about problems, and how to begin to respond. A number of tools are proposed, based on their ability to meet or contribute to some or all of the following features:
Learning For Innovation Study – October 2017 – Alpha Version.pdf