We at Examor are working on a global initiative that brings design thinking methodologies into practice for human rights NGOs, software development firms and faith-based organizations. Our office is in Bangkok, Thailand and we are currently consulting clients in Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, Ukraine and the USA.
If you studied philosophy in University you may have heard the phrase "Creatio Ex Nihilo" meaning "to create out of nothing". Doing things without meaning behind what we do tends to lead us down paths on which we create things with less and less meaning. So we decided to name our organization Examor, which means: "to create out of love". Not a love based on pity that gives to relieve guilt and certainly not a love based on money which most of us can agree is at the core of many of the evils in our world. Rather we want to create from a perspective that looks 20, 30 even 50 years ahead to what the greatest problems of the future might be and ask the question; how we might begin solving them in the most sustainable way today? In this way our creating out of love will hopefully breed things that yield compounded interest of love over time.
To begin creating out of love we start by assessing your organization using Jim Collin's Good to Great assesment, and then move on to a hueristic analysis of your current products or services. Once we have a good idea of your current resources, we can then facilitate and/or train you to use processes and resources such as; Ideo's Human Centered design toolkit and Google Ventures Design Sprints. We believe that use of these tools will result in powerful insights into both your own resources and the hearts of the people you want to create out of love for.
One of the concepts we like to use is "The Mirror and The Telescope". The mirror can help you understand the current state of your organization and not only the talent and passions you have but also the constraints created by the realities you're facing. The telescope can help you to look into the future of what you might become by creating products and services out of love for people.
Below are links to some of the resources we use when consulting with organizations today. We are currently taking on clients that are interested in applying these methodologies to their new ideas and/or existing product and service offerings.
The Google Ventures design sprint is a five-day process for answering critical questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas. Developed at Google Ventures, it's a "greatest hits" of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more – packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
Checkout Gv.com/SprintAfter facilitating design sprints for several companies over the past year we found that some of the biggest pain points were; setting up the questions, capturing the feedback and analyzing the data that came out of the user interviews. So we built this tool to make those things a bit easier. Development is ongoing but it is functioning and can be used to capture data today! Give it a try and let us know what you think..
Early on we discovered how important the intro script was to the outcome of the sprint. So now we read this, word for word everytime we do a sprint.
Intro scriptWhen capturing data from the discovery portion of the sprint we realized that hand writing or recording responses from participants proved ineffective when reviewing after the sprint. We found ourselves wanting a more structured method of extracting data from our interviews so we made this form that allows the note taker to enter all 5 participants responses in one place along with the facillitators script. Enter, the discovery form!
Discovery form
After reading Jim Collin's book, "Good To Great" we were incredibly inspired and have been sharing his concepts ever since. You can imagine how excited we were when he launched a diagnostic tool that can help any organization quickly set out on the journey from good to great!
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At IDEO.org, part of their mission is to spread human-centered design to social sector practitioners around the world. The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design reveals their processes with key mindsets that underpin the how and why of design for the social sector, 57 clear-to-use design methods for new and experienced practitioners, and from-the-field case studies of human-centered design in action. The Field Guide has everything you need to understand the people you're designing for, to have more effective brainstorms, to prototype your ideas, and to ultimately arrive at more creative solutions.
Checkout this resourceWe are keen to the fact that many Christians are not representing the body of Christ in a way that would make Jesus happy, in fact we have probably been a part of that group at one time or another ourselves. This has inspired us at Examor to make sure we do stuff that the God we profess to follow would be proud of. You know, things like taking care of refugees, people living in slums, the LGBTQ community and victims of sex trafficking and doing so in an empowering and sustainable way. We believe that really loving your neighbor no matter what they look like or what language they speak should be our first priority and that creating products and services out of love for these people is our express directive from God and our purpose in life.
If you think we might be able to help you in some way, or if you have a story to share about Design thinking being used for the good of humanity, please drop us a line. We look forward to hearing from you!
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