Client Research

In order to help you design and realize a new future for your organization, we initiate our work with a diligent process of research. This helps us to gain a deep understanding of the situation at hand, to surface your culture's tacit beliefs and values, and to reflect back what we learn about your organization and your operating context. In a process of collaborative analysis we determine the resources required for you to foster innovation, creativity and action. Just as importantly, we identify barriers to innovation and develop strategies to overcome them.

Internal Discovery

Collective Invention surfaces practices, challenges, dilemmas and opportunities at the core of an organization through a process combining organizational development and ethnographic research. The result is a baseline portrait of current reality and a foundation for building the future.

External Discovery

"One of Collective Invention's most important contributions was helping us move beyond our own expertise to solicit the perspectives of a wide range of experts across fields and sectors of work."- Alexa Culwell, CEO, The Stupski Foundation

Learning Expeditions—both physical and virtual—are at the heart of Collective Invention’s external discovery work. These evocative experiences, spanning industries and  sectors, are designed to stimulate interdisciplinary, non-obvious approaches to familiar problems.

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