Activity: Identifying Your Adaptive Challenges
Try this big thinking exercise to help you question long-held assumptions and identify a persistent adaptive challenge at your organization.
Author: Karina Mangu-Ward, EmcArts Director of Strategic Initiatives
About Karina Mangu-Ward, EmcArts Director of Strategic Initiatives
Activity: Exploring Organizational Culture
Try this activity to identify the aspects of your organizational culture that may enable or impede your innovation process.
Activity: The Tower Game
Try this team-building activity to learn about team roles, communication, and effectiveness.
Introducing the Spring 2013 Blogging Fellows
James Carter, Anna Prushinskaya, and Erinn Roos-Brown join ArtsFwd as our newest cohort of Blogging Fellows.
Munch Club #3: What is Lateral Thinking?
At our monthly Munch Club, the EmcArts staff gathers together at lunchtime to test out the tools used in our programs.
Video: Behind the Scenes at the Innovation Lab for Museums Round 2 Retreat
A five-day intensive retreat allows for museum staff, board members, community members, and experts to accelerate innovation projects by getting away from daily stresses.
12 Stories of Innovation in Practice
We’re excited to release 12 new stories of innovation into our permanent collection.
Do It Yourself Activities
Try out these exercises to advance your innovative projects and build your adaptive muscles.
Live Blog: Inside Day 3 of the Continuing Innovation Convening
The ArtsFwd team is at Norwood Club today to cover Day 3 of the gathering. Live updates from the meeting will be below.
Live Blog: Inside Day 2 of the Continuing Innovation Convening
The ArtsFwd team is at Norwood Club today to cover Day 2 of the gathering. Live updates from the meeting will be below.
Live Blog: Inside Day 1 of the Continuing Innovation Convening
The ArtsFwd team is at Norwood Club today to cover the gathering. Live updates from the meeting will be below.
Innovative Orgs and Big Thinkers to Convene in NYC
This January 23-25, EmcArts will lead an event bringing together a cohort of arts organizations and guests to evaluate and reflect on their own innovation work.
Activity: Random Entry
Try this lateral thinking activity to generate new, provocative approaches to an adaptive challenge you’re facing.
Activity: Innovation Transfer
Try this lateral thinking activity to draw parallels between successful strategies from another innovation project and your current project.
Open Call for ArtsFwd Blogging Fellows – Deadline: January 21st
ArtsFwd is accepting applications for the spring trimester of our Blogging Fellowship.