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Communication Design

When it comes to creating strong engagement, it is important to know your audience so you can create a compelling narrative that captures the imagination and builds a shared desire for change. Creating powerful communications and a strong brand is essential to make impact.

Research & Insights

To best understand a complex problem, we must go directly to the people who are closest to it and who hold the strongest motivation to address it. Our designers bring deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative research to produce profound human insights. Through academic level research in real-world, rapidly-evolving contexts, we generate compelling insights that inform strategic evidence-based decision-making.

Education & Capability

We are living in a highly transitional and disruptive period. The challenges we face are more complex and interconnected than ever. To rise to these challenges, organisations must develop and implement new capabilities, technologies, and ways of working while many face capacity shortages, and widespread cognitive overload. Education providers must rethink curriculums, the student experience, and the value proposition for teachers to remain impactful into future.

Scaled System Change

There’s a lot that urgently needs to change in our world. We need change at scale, not piecemeal efforts. ThinkPlace has been seeking to master design in complex systems for nearly two decades, developing a toolkit for scaled system change that we’ve applied to some of the world’s biggest challenges. We enable exploration of systems through human perspectives, map relationships, constraints and opportunities, and identify viable pathways and initiatives to shift systems over time. Through highly effective brokering of disciplines, rapid sense-making and problem framing, and portfolio of experimentation, we engage ecosystems for change.

HCD & Service Design

We wholeheartedly believe in the principle that those for whom we design must be those with whom we design. As human-centred design (HCD) practitioners, we believe this because we know it works. HCD is a co-creative approach to problem-solving that places the people at the centre of the design process.

Social and Behaviour Change

Many of the challenges we face globally can be traced back to human behaviour, yet it’s not always clear why humans do the things that we do. In fact, scientists estimate that over 90% of behaviour is subconsciously motivated – influenced heavily by context and cognitive biases, and therefore often cannot be explained by logic alone. For this reason, conventional research methods like interviews and focus group discussions are insufficient in uncovering the core, underlying drivers of human behaviour.

ThinkPlace’s social and behaviour change (SBC) practice is committed to transforming human behaviour by deeply understanding what drives behaviour and deploying interventions and tactics that draw on psychology and behavioural economics to shift that behaviour in a constructive, sustainable way.

Innovation

Innovation continually disrupts and reinvents the fundamentals of how things work.

As with all disruptions, digital has created a mix of risk and opportunity that can’t be ignored. When digital innovation is well-connected to societal trends, strategic imperatives and the needs of people and communities, it delivers impact that transforms organisations, changes lives and powers a more sustainable future.

Strategy & Policy Design

The strategy and policy design service develops strategic or policy direction and charts the course towards that direction. A sharp sense of who you are and where you are heading is a powerful tool to give focus and align effort for increased effectiveness.

Leadership & Culture

Around the world governments, consortia, and organisations and assembling teams of highly-talented people to tackle wicked problems in high-pressure environments. Many of these teams fail for complex but preventable reasons.

These highly talented teams and individuals tend to be highly skilled with a clear sense of purpose, and push themselves to limits others simply are unable to achieve. This passion can drive people to keep pushing at this intensity for extended periods of time, especially when faced with a grand challenge, such as those in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Strategy & Policy Design

The strategy and policy design service develops strategic or policy direction and charts the course towards that direction. A sharp sense of who you are and where you are heading is a powerful tool to give focus and align effort for increased effectiveness.

How ThinkPlace can help

Whether it is a strategy or policy spanning countries, a nation, multiple stakeholders, an organisation or an area within an organisation, ThinkPlace will work collaboratively with you and your stakeholders to:

Current state – Assess the current state. Determine the drivers for change and the need for the strategy or policy.
Research – Conduct strategic qualitative and quantitative research to understand the system of interest. Sound strategy and policy is based on robust research, knowing where to target and focus intervention.
Risk – Assess strategic risk. A rigorous risk assessment works identifies the likelihood and consequence of uncertainty. From this, flows a view of risk and opportunity.
Futuring – Synthesise strategic intelligence of megatrends. Draw from multiple sources to identity the megatrends facing your area of interest and how these can present opportunity to shape the future.
Scenario planning – Expand thinking by imagining critical uncertainties and predetermined elements in a system. Imagine how different emergent properties of the system might play out, what this could mean for your area of interest, and use the scenarios as a tool to test policy and strategy.
Direction – Determine strategic direction. Uncover the vision, mission, purpose and direction for the strategy.
Identity – Define strategic identity. Define the niche, values and driving force of an organisation or area to galvanise people towards a strong shared identity.
Outcomes – Define strategy or policy outcomes. What is the desired future state you are seeking to bring about?
Theory of change – Develop theory of change to describe where you might intervene, and to guide constant readjustment during the life of the strategy or policy to ensure you remain strategically relevant.
Objectives – Develop objectives and goals based on the theory of change.
Interventions – Develop policy interventions or strategies and tactics that will make progress towards the desired future.
Legislation and programs – Shape legislation and programs that will guide the desired future.
Evaluation – Develop evaluation frameworks, measurement indicators, data sources and governance to ensure that progress can be monitored and evaluated to inform recalibration of effort.