co:dify at a Glance
Who We Are
We are a multidisciplinary network of experienced innovation researchers and practitioners with a focus on ‘change by design’. We analyze the innovation approaches and practices from the most progressive companies in the world and co:dify them into learning formats and innovation programs. This enables us to provide our clients the latest thinking, frameworks, tools and facilitation for a sustainable self-help in developing an innovation culture. The core network was founded by Jan Schmiedgen, Ingo Rauth, and Kira Krämer, is run by Christian Rudolph, Jan Schmiedgen, and Elias Barrasch and consists of freelance facilitators as well as partner consultancies. Our expert and partner network encompasses 100+ domain specialists.
In the past we have been operating in the background as ‘firefighters’, facilitators and scientific advisors for a variety of innovation consultancies and organizations.
During that time we have been participant observants of many change initiatives, in particular those who aimed at introducing ‘Agile’ ways of working in organizations (read: design thinking, Lean Startup, etc.). We saw lots of innovation theater and flashes in the pan. We also saw dogmatic and almost religious devotions to certain method(ologies) and management ideas. What we observed very rarely was a deliberate and strategic build-up of innovation capabilities. Such first-hand experience combined with years of innovation research led us to the decision to co:dify our knowledge on how to sustainably scale ‘human-centric innovation systems’ and partner with those clients who really want to make a difference. Together with them we will co:dify their tailored innovation approaches.
How? Read more on this website, soon.
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Hi Chinh, good stuff. If you are also interested in some empirical research on exactly this topic: check this out > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/caim.12153 I can also PM you some presentation on that. [ Read the full story ... ]
Phew! What. a. crazy. year. I never did that before but here it is: My recap of personal highlights in business of this year. I learned a big deal and feel grateful for many things that happened. On that score, I somehow felt the need to... [ Read the full story ... ]
How to diffuse a (service) design mindset without permissionIrrespective of whether you call it Service Design, User Experience Design, Human-centered Design, Design Thinking, or Lean Startup: human-centric and hypotheses-testing managem... [ Read the full story ... ]
I just gave a brief glimpse into S-D logic at the recent Service Design Drinks, Berlin. Below you can find the slides and a record of the video stream (quality isn’t the best unfortunately). SlideShare / Service Design Berlin – via Ifram... [ Read the full story ... ]
My talk at 99U Dresden is online now. It’s mostly about “typical German product thinking” and why it is good to have a service lens on ones business. Although very basic in nature it introduces elements of S-D logic and the JTBD philosop... [ Read the full story ... ]
Ford motor company manager quoted in the “Fifth Discipline Fieldbook” (1994, p.45) [ Read the full story ... ]
Transformation seems to be the new mantra for making design and innovation work in a large organization. A recent example is IBM, which seeks to foster a design-driven culture at scale. Changing culture on this scale, especially when the... [ Read the full story ... ]
Ever since I discovered this principle, I have quoted and followed the advice numerous times. I first heard it from a friend at P&G, Holly O’Driscoll in, in relation to P&G’s efforts to scale design thinking. According to Holly and othe... [ Read the full story ... ]
Top management changes and an efficiency focus have killed a couple of innovation and design thinking initiatives lately; and are likely to continue. Management is largely blind to the purpose of an innovation function or “playing” the i... [ Read the full story ... ]
Our Newest Learning Experiences
Our name says it all: we love to co:dify and curate knowledge to make it accessible to innovators and leaders in charge of large-scale change in organizations. Besides our standard trainings in design thinking, service design, and the like we permanently push the frontiers to create new learning experiences for topics of higher complexity. These are our most recent (co-)creations:
PiratesInThe.Navy
Our brand-new format on large-scale culture change for C-level managers, innovation leaders and change agents. Learn the basic vocabulary of modern innovation management and how to design digital transformation initiatives in an agile way.
HackThe.Org — Leapfrog Your Innovation Culture
Your colleagues complain about innovation barriers and how hard it is to innovate against the odds of a big organization? This format makes you stop lamenting and start sharing culture hacks to make things happen: subversively, grass-roots, and like a real lean entrepreneur. Ask forgiveness — not permission!
Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile Development
A three day HPI Academy training for more experienced project managers, design thinking coaches and product owners who want to enable their teams to detect innovative solutions and implement them successfully. We will focus especially on the interplay of design thinking, Lean Startup, and ‘Agile’. co:dify’s Jan Schmiedgen co-created the course and will be one of the facilitators of the days.
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Kottbusser Damm 73
10967 Berlin
Germany
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Kottbusser Damm 73
10967 Berlin
Germany
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