Introduction
Welcome to our Autumn 2016 newsletter highlighting activities during our 15th anniversary year. This has been an important year of transition for IFF, culminating in the launch of our new platform for transformative innovation. Read more below about:
- Transformative Innovation
- New Mission: New Trustees
- IFF Prompts App
- IFF 15th Anniversary
- Patterns of Renewal in Health and Social Care
- Designing Regenerative Cultures
- Other News
I hope you enjoy the selection. As always I welcome feedback. Also please do share this newsletter with anyone else you think might be interested in the content by passing on this link: http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/newsletter-nov-2016.
Graham Leicester Director
IFF has been managing a transition in recent years: to become a reliable infrastructure of support to help organisations and individuals develop the capacity to transition away from today’s failing systems towards new viable patterns fit for the longer term future. We call this practice ‘transformative innovation’. It represents the culmination of fifteen years of international research and development, including intensive learning from theory and from practice. We have now:
·Codified the practice of transformative innovation in a new book Transformative Innovation: a guide to practice and policy;
·Established a ‘platform for transformative innovation’ – the IFF Practice Centre at www.iffpraxis.com – as an open access set of resources to develop and support the practice, especially in the fields of health and social care and in education;
·Set up a Transformative Innovation Network as a mutually supportive international community of practice across many different domains in the public and social sectors;
·Introduced a Transformative Innovation Fund to invest in transformative initiatives that are starting to show their potential and that our IFF Practice Advisers can help to coach to further success.
Please take a look at these resources – and do get in touch if you have feedback or if you want advice about how best to engage with them.
New Mission: New Trustees
With the launch of this platform for transformative innovation we are now ready to deliver on our core charitable mission to grow the human capacity to take effective action in today’s powerful times. We will now start raising the funds, both from individual supporters and from more significant philanthropic donors, that are needed to maintain and develop the infrastructure we have built and to support the network of practice advisers who lie behind it so that these resources can reach their full potential in the world.
We are therefore strengthening our own capacity to receive and manage funds in pursuit of this purpose with the appointment of several new trustees, who now comprise:
Peter Lederer (Chair) – former MD and Chairman of Gleneagles Hotel, Director of Diageo in Scotland, Chair of Visit Scotland, awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2005, now Chairman of Hamilton and Inches.
| Nick Butler – Visiting Professor and founding Chairman of the Kings Policy Institute at Kings College London, formerly Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy at BP, and senior policy adviser to the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. |
| Leslie Dighton – Founder and Director of The Chairmans Club, Founder and Chairman of Corporate Renewal Associates, Governor of the London School of Economics, adviser and mentor to various Boards and Chairmen. |
| Alison Elliot – Associate Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at Edinburgh University, first woman Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and until recently Convenor of the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations. |
| Philip Rycroft – Second Permanent Secretary and Head of UK Governance Group in the UK Cabinet Office, previously Director General in the Deputy Prime Minister’s office after returning to the civil service from a position in corporate affairs with Hutchison Whampoa (Europe) Ltd; |
| Jennifer Williams – an American artist based in London, former founder and director of the Centre for Creative Communities, illustrator for many recent books by IFF members, an IFF Clan Member since 2003. |