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

This resource explores what the spread of social innovations looks like in contexts that go beyond organisational growth, such as replication and dissemination. 

This resource explains that big visions can be too generic to develop actional strategies around, and thus advocates breaking them down into several smaller goals.

This online resource offers a set of guides for systems thinking, systems mapping, systems change and systems building through the lens of Systems Innovation, which aims to change the underlying structure of a system rather than its individual parts.

This resource is a video that explains pivoting as changing strategy, not changing your vision, much like changing your route if you encounter an obstacle while driving.

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 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.