Discover the faster, less risky, long-term innovation approach.
Very few new innovations in the charity sector make it to market, and even fewer succeed. Far too often, great ideas stall before they reach the people who need them most.
But why is that?
- Too slow: Risk-averse cultures mean it takes 12+ months to pilot just one new idea.
- Too risky: Without a culture of experimentation, ideas only get one shot to work.
- Too little: Day-to-day activities take priority, meaning fewer than two new innovations are launched each year.
Traditional innovation models rely on overstretched internal teams or expensive external agencies, both of which create bottlenecks. Insight gets lost, momentum slows, and crucially, with so much riding on one idea, expensive failures can happen. Promising ideas stall after initial testing, with no clear path to launch.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. This workshop will reveal how taking a continuous build, release, and validate approach can help your organisation move faster, reduce risk, and achieve long-term success. Join us to explore case studies from three organisations where this approach has helped to move ideas beyond testing to become market-ready products now serving real customers:
- Pancreatic Cancer UK built and piloted five new services in six months, with four of these now rolled into business as usual.
- Woodgreen Pets Charity built, piloted, and launch three new digital services.
- National Trust prototyped and launched a new flagship individual giving product as a pillar of their new organisational strategy.
Learning outcomes
- Learn how to use a test-and-iterate approach to reduce risk, increase success rates, and align with the real needs of your organisation.
- Find out how cross-functional teams drive faster delivery and buy-in and how to involve core teams from the start to build momentum and ownership.
- Discover practical ways to use no-code tools and AI platforms.