OUR BLOGS
At Three6 we love sharing our knowledge. Here are our latest blogs, infographics, ideas and thoughts.
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Putting people at the centre of your Digital Transformation
Combining human-centred design and process improvement can help you achieve the shift in your organisation's culture, processes, and systems necessary for a digital transformation, while keeping your customers at the forefront. In this blog, we share our secret recipe for a successful Digital Transformation.
Increasing a bank's productivity
Productivity is essential to create financial stability. Let's demonstrate the importance of productivity through a recent case study.
A human-centred approach to strategy
Strategies can no longer be set from the top and expected to be successful. They need to engage at every level and to do that, you need a Human-Centred approach.
Placemaking: Designing places as services
Places can facilitate connection. They can engage, inspire, and stimulate people. By viewing places as services, we can apply a service design lens to the design of places. We explore placemaking and how well-designed places can delight.
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Change is no longer just about providing people with new technical skills. It's also about supporting individuals and organisations to move toward their North Star, their desired culture and their ever-evolving end state. Societal change is escalating. Organisations are trying to work out what new ways of working look like. This must go beyond the number of days in the office; it needs to understand how we can support our employees to be resilient, innovative, collaborative and engaged.
2022: A Review of the Mad Year that was
Earlier this year, I went from a massive corporate to Three6, a small business. It's been quite an adjustment, but as I've grown personally, so has Three6 as a company. Here's my look back over the ways we've grown throughout 2022.
Bringing it all together – the bigger picture
Understanding the problem. Designing impactful solutions. Making it stick. Having one or two is good, but bringing all three elements together is where the magic happens. It requires thought and planning, but with all three, your initiatives will really make a difference.
How to solve problems holistically, without battling over methodologies!
The more complex a problem is, the greater the chances that we’ll miss something. However, taking a holistic approach and being flexible in how you approach methodologies can improve your chances of designing a solution that sticks, without arguing over which tool or methodology to use.
The beauty isn’t in the purpose, it’s in the process
As a self-aware thinker, I'm continuously looking to solve problems that may or may not be there. This can often lead to anxiety - continuously questioning am I on the right track? Am I living my purpose? Am I where I should be at this stage in my life? Having a purpose should provide us with direction but not weigh us down. So what are my key tips for finding and then living with your purpose?
How to think outside the box to solve problems
It’s easy to get set in routines and ways of thinking that make up your everyday life. This can impact your ability to think “outside the box” as the traditions, practices, and rules you observe every day create a familiar and comfortable structure. However, when problems arise, we need to look at the context of the problem with new eyes.
Why Agile Fails
Agile isn't for everyone, nor is it for everything. Products that require a certain level of quality and adherence to regulations are often more suited to Waterfall. When there are tight restrictions, it's essential that nothing is missed. Agile can work for development of software and services but it's not for companies which produce products that require an elevated level of safety.
Why you NEED an Outsider's Perspective
Have you ever heard the phrase “this is how we do it here?” Just because something has been done a certain way for a long time, does not mean it is still the most efficient. It’s hard to see your inefficiencies from your client’s perspective when you’ve created the experience.
Human Centred Leadership and The Great Resignation
We have left jobs, not because of the work we did, but because our leaders weren’t aligned to our values. We have left otherwise solid jobs to follow our inspirational leaders to new companies. From these journeys, we know that who we work for is just as important, if not more, than the work we do each day.
Too Hard Basket: How to Execute Your Strategy with a Customer Mindset
Have you heard the story of the janitor at NASA responding to President Kennedy? He said that his job was putting a man on the moon. That is exactly what we are after - a connection between everyone’s role and the organisational mission.
4 years in Australia - Catalina Bonavia
20/01/2018 was one of the scariest days of my life, and today… 4 years later, I can’t help but smile...
Too Hard Basket: Ted Lasso and HCL
As many of our clients know, Three6 has developed our Human Centred Leadership program because we discovered, through our work in many organisations, that a human centred design mindset doesn't happen on its own.
Exploring Human-Centred Leadership With Three6
Human-Centred Design, or HCD, is a tool that allows us to rethink the way we engage with our people – leaders, followers, teams and stakeholders.