Interstellar Insights – Traction’s New Innovation Game

November’s Design with Dialogue explored Interstellar Insights a newly prototyped tool and game from Tamara and Shawna Eberle of Traction Strategy.  They last joined us in 2016 to share their last breaking new innovation process game Innovate or Dinosaur. OCAD U was among the first to experience – Interstellar Insights Head into deep space and […]

Innovate or Dinosaur! Serious Play for Innovation.

September’s DwD explored the new board game (launched this week) by Traction Strategy, cheekily called Innovate or Dinosaur!  A truly collaborative innovation game, the playful approach helps teams generate and test new ideas, create a path to assess and implement them, and builds the capacity for organizations to “innovate everyday”. Played by teams of 4 […]

What is the True Nature of Partnership?

March’s DwD session was hosted by Mary Pickering of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. What is the true nature of “partnership”?  Funders want it, social innovation demands it and professionals now “broker” it. With the rising clamor to establish partnerships within and across organizations to get people working together more effectively, the time has come to […]

Long-term Thinking

LENGTH MATTERS: How might we bring a long-term perspective to near-term decisions? Consumers, organizational leaders and politicians make daily decisions that will affect our families, communities, prosperity and habitat for decades into the future. How would our culture and world be different if we made decisions in consideration of the well-being of our children’s children, rather […]