Business Innovation Factory — Integration Design Consortium

business innovation factory

Managing the structure of the IDC to facilitate learning across the five projects and working to capture and share emerging learnings and resources.

BIF's Approach

The Business Innovation Factory serves as the connective tissue of the IDC—connecting, convening, and collecting learnings towards our combined learning agenda. BIF also serves as the Chief Instigator, running small experiments to understand how the IDC might spark collaboration, inspire reflection, and insight pivots based on real-time learnings. As the designers and managers of the IDC, BIF aims to amplify impact, accelerate learning, generate products, and increase awareness around improving coordination, coherence, and collaboration in education. Get in touch to learn more!

A graphic notetaker draws murals live during the first IDC convening

IDC teams build a 2D or 3D representation of a theme that has emerged during their project work.

Members from all six teams of the IDC and Carnegie Corporation of New York collectively reflect during the third in-person IDC convening.

BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY PROJECT TEAM

Reid Henkel - Senior Experience Designer

Jessica Brown - Student Experience Lab Manager

Samantha Kowalczyk - Digital Design Manager

Sam Seidel - IDC Advisor; Director of the K-12 Lab at Stanford's d.school

About the Business Innovation Factory (BIF)

With the mission to enable business model transformation by making it safer and easier to manage for institutional leaders, BIF works in areas of high impact: healthcare, education, and public services. We work with institutional leaders to change their lenses, gather stories from real users—students, patients, and citizens—and use their experiences to inspire new models. With this inspiration, we prototype, test, and iterate these models in a real-world environment to accelerate learning, scale, and impact.

As part of this approach to understand the jobs customers need done, our work focuses on three service areas:

STRATEGY: Creating a vision and strategic roadmap for new services and business models
DESIGN: Designing and testing new services and business models for organizations
CAPACITY: Building the internal capacity of organizations to transform their business models