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New Zealand Young Farmers knew past success wouldn’t guarantee their future. By investing in deep member research, personas and a clear experience journey, Lynda and her team gained the insight and confidence they needed to focus on what matters most and future‑proof the organisation.
The product was ready. The patients wanted it. And then the people nobody had mapped killed it in weeks. Strategy, sustainability and culture specialist Eliza Turnbull on the three things standing between your good idea and the people who will stop it – and what to do before it happens.
Most organisations don’t have a research problem. They have a research-to-action problem. The insights exist. They just never make it into the decisions that matter.
Julie Francis has spent decades helping organisations like Spotify, Walmart, and Meta close that gap. In this conversation, she shares what separates research that changes direction from research that sits in a folder – and why the most important insights are almost never found in the data.
Moving fast often means moving wrong. Under pressure, teams rush to collect data and fill decks with charts, but skip the hard step of asking, “What’s the problem behind the problem?” That’s how organisations end up solving the obvious problem, not the real one—and teaching everyone that “innovation” doesn’t really change anything.
Most organisations don’t struggle with ideas – they struggle with implementation. This article explores the Innovation Implementation Gap: why promising strategies stall, why change efforts fail, and what leaders can do to turn innovation into meaningful, lasting action.
Design thinking is one of the most widely adopted innovation approaches in New Zealand today. It is used in government agencies, hospitals, universities, and commercial teams across New Zealand. And in the right hands, in the right conditions, it is genuinely powerful. But after a decade working with more than 350 leaders and teams across the NZ public sector, healthcare, agriculture, and commercial sectors, I have reached a clear conclusion: typical design thinking is a brilliant starting point. On its own, it is rarely enough.
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