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Mar 31

Enhancing the Experience

By Gary King BIG Picture, In Practice

Dave Stewart, from the charitable trust Positive Steps, has a reputation as an enabler; he makes things happen. Whether it’s helping vulnerable young people overcome barriers, training practitioners so that they can achieve better outcomes or generating concepts for new tools…

Mar 31

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Seeing Opportunities

By Gary King Bigger Picture, CO Cards, DCD Examples, In Practice

Working with visual metaphors enables people to SEE things differently. The use of imagery opens up outlooks, expands horizons and reveals new possibilities. In a similar fashion, much of our...

Mar 31

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Essential Travel Cards

By Gary King CO Cards, DCD Examples, In Practice

Interview with Brian McDonough, Associate Director of the International Centre for Community Development (ICCD) and Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University Funded by Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation,...

Mar 31

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Driving Creative Conferences

By Gary King BIG Picture, DCD Examples, In Practice

Part of the Worldwide Bosch Group, Worcester has been a UK market leader in domestic boilers since 1962. To help maintain this position, company managers regularly come together to strategically...

Mar 31

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Valuing Values

By Gary King BIG Picture, CO Cards, In Practice

With a wide physical reach and serving a population of over one million people, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) understood the power of being emotionally invested in...

Mar 30

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Graphically Enhanced

By Gary King Bigger Picture, In Practice

Back in 2013 Ripstone was a new lean start-up with big ideas. They wanted to disrupt the digital gaming world. They wanted to offer a radically different approach to developing,...

Mar 30

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Out of this world involvement

By Gary King Bigger Picture, DCD Examples, In Practice

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) are statutory NHS bodies responsible for the planning and commissioning of healthcare services for their respective geographic areas. This involves monitoring and assessing the needs of...

Mar 30

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Inspiring Innovation

By Gary King Bigger Picture, In Practice

Much has changed from the early days of the Internet. The information super highway is no longer a mere fast track to contact details or technical information. Virtually organic in nature, the world-wide-web has...

Mar 30

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Go for Green

By Gary King BIG Picture, DCD Examples, In Practice

Mission Mapping is an inclusive approach to shared action planning and an ideal tool for enabling teams to take charge of their own destiny. But what if the team is...