Written by Global Knowledge Initiative’s Accelerating Innovation for Resilience Pilot Program Team If you work in innovation, you probably know the acronym SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, and Reverse). SCAMPER is an ideation method that invites innovators to take a product or solution and turn it…

Design thinking, paired with a Systems Perspective, is a critical component of the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI)’s approach to addressing development challenges. Today, two members of GKI’s team — Whitney Stewart and Katie Safford — offered a training on “Human Centered Design as a Mindset” at USAID’s Youth Power2: Learning…

Written by Katie Safford with support from Alycia Ikegami and Whitney Stewart. Visuals created by Kat Haugh. Did you know your brain is wired with negativity bias? We are predisposed to spot things that are not going well and feel an instinctual tug to fix them. As a result, researchers…

Natural disasters in the Caribbean are becoming more ferocious and frequent. This, coupled with the increasing detrimental impacts of climate change, mean that the vulnerabilities faced by small island nations in the Eastern Caribbean are only set to intensify. …

At the Global Knowledge Initiative, we work at the intersection of systems change, collaborative innovation and international development. In our approach to addressing complex problems, we believe in understanding the root cause and how it connects to deeper systemic patterns. In order to create equitable, lasting change in these systems…

This blog was co-authored by Global Knowledge Initiative’s Katherine Haugh and Social Impact’s Monalisa Salib, with credit to many thought partners along the way (see the full list of kudos at the end of this blog.) As organizational learning professionals, we are frequently asked about how to create an organizational…

This blog was co-authored by Global Knowledge Initiative’s Katherine Haugh and Social Impact’s Monalisa Salib, with credit to many thought partners along the way (see the full credits at the end of this blog.) This is the second article in a three-part series. …

This blog was co-authored by Global Knowledge Initiative’s Katherine Haugh and Social Impact’s Monalisa Salib, with credit to many thought partners along the way (see the full list of kudos at the end of this blog.) As organizational learning professionals, we have received many questions over the years about what…

By Katie Safford In 2018, GKI partnered with the United States Department of State, Second Muse, and Circulate Capital to look at Marine Waste through a systemic lens. This team undertook a systems sensing process that highlighted many forces driving Surabaya’s waste management system. Some of the most notable forces…