Galen's post links to his research note on Community Innovation Trends. If you're not familiar with the Community Innovation notion, it refers to a particular form of social innovation that is place-based – within the specific geography of a community.
We liked the way Galen positions Design Thinking within a larger space of Design-Based approaches to Community Innovation (and notes that Design-Based methods are themselves part of a larger space that includes Scale-Based and Inclusion-Based methods). For example, there is also a good discussion of the Social Labs method as an alternate approach, comments on when Design Thinking or Social Labs may be the preferred choice, and a concluding section on integrating Design Thinking and Social Labs to get the best of both methods.
To read Galen’s full article posted originally to the Tamarack Institute website, click here.
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