Tools & Resources

The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a framework for describing transition processes in complex socio-technical systems. This canvas is designed to help participants think about change on these different levels and how it can be used to enable disruptive innovation.

This resource is designed to help those interested or involved in a particular cross-sector collaboration better understand the complexities and nuances of the initiative.

This resource explains how prototyping can help you bridge the evidence gap by creating context specific evidence through experimentation. 

This resource uses a basic matrix to distinguish between simple, complicated, political, complex, and chaotic issues and challenges, and the types of intervention most appropriate to each.

This resource contains a process for working with stakeholders to determine their desired level of involvement in an initiative.

This resource describes Australia’s unique leadership culture and shows how leaders working in this context can support the change they want to see in the world.

This resource describes the core capabilities of system leaders and describes the means by which they may be acquired.

The language and practice of place-based and community-led change in Australia: Building a shared understanding Collective Impact and community-led approaches have been increasingly adopted and applied by Australian governments recently, reflecting a desire to engage and work with the public…

This resource describes six conditions of systems change: policies; practices; resource flows; relationships and connections; power dynamics; and mental models.

This resource helps individuals think systemically about social change, explore what is happening below the surface on issues they care about, and determine how they and their organizations can pursue large-scale change in a disciplined and holistic manner.

This resource will help your group to identify and prioritise influential champions who could be engaged in the collaborative effort and lend their support to moving the effort forward.

This resource is a video of Liz Skelton unpacking the key concepts required for diagnosing and working with power, including changing our organisations’ relationship with power.

This resource unpacks key concepts of ‘co-design’ and explains how the range of design-based traditions that sit under the co-design banner have something very important to bring to social innovation. 

Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together. In this video, Deep Collaboration Lead, Mark Yettica-Paulson and CFI’s Jane Martin discuss why a new approach to working together is needed.