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osing market share
- Michael Simkins on 18 Feb 14
  
  I'd say public schools ARE losing market share, especially in higher income areas. Kids get sent to private school, to charter schools.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I'd say public schools ARE losing market share, especially in higher income areas. Kids get sent to private school, to charter schools.</div>
  
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a ‘skunk work’, a remote location in which you assemble a group of people and let them produce work under the protection of distance and then install it when it’s done
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the ingredients tend to be unflappable leadership at the top and support, adequate budget to make a difference, an extended timeframe that doesn’t require bottom-line results every 90 days, and then a broad cultural change that does go into the areas of HR, operations, finance, marketing.
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and a subset question of ‘Do they in fact need to get from point A to point B
- Michael Simkins on 18 Feb 14
  
  I love this reframing example. And this is a key difference between design thinking and the typical problem solving in school settings. There this line of questioning would be nipped in the bud. The emphasis would be on sticking to the initial question. "We don't have time for all that!"
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I love this reframing example. And this is a key difference between design thinking and the typical problem solving in school settings. There this line of questioning would be nipped in the bud. The emphasis would be on sticking to the initial question. "We don't have time for all that!"</div>
  
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essentially a four-stage process
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we start at the beginning with deeply observing and understanding, finding insights and deeper meaning in that question, stating that question and then heading into a phase of ideation where we have as many potential solutions as possible. By analytic process we choose one or two that we think are the best and then through the processes of prototyping, storytelling and testing, improve those and get them to a spot where they are ready for a higher level testing and implementation study.
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our work within this realm is less about preference and more about unmet need or unmet opportunity.
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One is hard pressed to simply issue a dictum from the corner office that says, ‘We are now an innovation company’, because the keys to success to making this work are not policy–they are culture change. And in order to enable that culture change there needs to be leadership from the to
- Michael Simkins on 18 Feb 14
  
  Superintendents take note.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Superintendents take note.</div>
  
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