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The innovators DNA: the five characteristics and how you can develop them?
What are the characteristics of an Innovator? Jorge Barba points to this “six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews” by Professors Jeff...
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The blind men and the elephant
Image Courtesy – Wikipedia The Blind Men and the Elephant An old Indian fable from 2500 years ago tells the story of six blind men. The blind men are presented before a king. The king asks these men...
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The dangerous lure of ideas
Chris Vanstone, our Director of Co-design, recently wrote an article in Public Innovation Today about the benefit of co-design for policy and how it can be used to reduce risk. Michael is 21. He spent...
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Innovation in ageing challenge open for ideas
South Australians with an innovative idea about how to make the most of life as we get older are being encouraged to enter the Innovation in Ageing Challenge. Minister for Ageing Zoe Bettison said...
View ArticleSystems change and meaningful lives in prison
At TACSI we talk a lot about untapped resources, behaviour change, thriving lives, and systems change. Ash sent me this 10 minute TED talk over the weekend that’s a great example of all four: Thinking...
View ArticleBe part of Australia’s national festival of social change
This is a guest post from Tom Dawkins, Director of the Changemakers Festival – Australia’s national festival of social change – which is coordinated by TACSI. The article first appeared in Pro Bono...
View ArticleWinners of the Innovation in Ageing Challenge announced!
The winners of the Innovation in Ageing Challenge were announced on the 10th of December by the Minister for Ageing, Zoe Bettison. The winners of the Innovation in Ageing Challenge are: SeniorPrenuers...
View ArticleInnovation in Ageing blogs – April
All of the winners of the Innovation in Ageing Challenge have been busy in April, hear more about what they have been up to. Boomers Power the Community The inaugural meeting of the Steering Group...
View ArticleTACSI hears from ActNow Theatre
This morning the team was introduced to forum theatre by Edwin from SA based ActNow Theatre. It was exciting to hear how this small not for profit is being a catalyst for change by sparking new and...
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Knowledge exchange with Per Capita
We are pleased to have hosted Emily Millane, Research Fellow on Longevity and Positive Ageing, from Per Capita over the last 2 days. TACSI and Per Capita are exchanging our know-how to strengthen our...
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Co-designing our workplace culture
Over the last month our co designer Adele Liddle has used a combination of co-design methods and personal research to build a picture of the culture at TACSI. Our starting point has been learn what...
View ArticlePeople Powered Everything?
This article was originally published by SIX The commonsensical approach of doing with rather than to might just be sticking, in places. A decade and a half of work on people powered public services...
View ArticleChild protection – too risky not to innovate
Incidents of child abuse and neglect in Australia have more than doubled over the past decade*. Billions of dollars have been spent on a continuous cycle of inquiries and reviews into child protection...
View ArticleBuilding our disability awareness at TACSI
Last week TACSI and partner staff participated in a disability awareness workshop led by Vikram Howard from Barkuma. Barkuma have developed and inspiring level of practice and offered many insights to...
View ArticleLaunching the Innovation Age
Today TACSI launched The Innovation Age – a new initiative to kick-start the next generation of policy, services and support to meet the changing needs of Australia’s baby boomers. The Innovation Age...
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Lucy Turnbull joins TACSI as our inaugural patron
We’re thrilled to announce Lucy Turnbull AO as our inaugural Patron. As Patron, Lucy will be supporting TACSI to help broaden the innovation agenda from one focused on business and commercialisation,...
View ArticleHow TACSI Seeks to Catalyse an Innovation Age
Bridging the Gap Between the Elderly and Elders: How TACSI Seeks to Catalyse an Innovation Age Joe and Beth are retired, and after saving for several years recently went on a “trip of a lifetime”...
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Failure As Catalyst : The journey to creating a viable business model for change
(This article was originally published by Impact Design Hub.) The notion that the work of social change necessarily means both scrambling to find funding and endless employee self-sacrifice has never...
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Community-led innovation for urban refugees
This is a guest post from Sonia Ben Ali, co-founder of the non-profit URBAN REFUGEES, exploring how innovation is needed to serve this invisible population. URBAN REFUGEES belief in the capacity of...
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Social Value Capture: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Following innovations in the UK and New Zealand, some of Australia’s more forward looking State governments are looking at two related innovations. The first is ‘social investment’ with social impact...
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