Actionable insights: how can we make information useful?

Actionable insights: how can we make information useful?

Sooner or later, every researcher is confronted with the question, “But what am I supposed to do with this?” because information isn’t intrinsically insightful or actionable.

So what are ‘actionable insights,’ the work product we’re here to create? How do we fashion information to give it new powers: the power to shift understandings, support decision-making, and enable action?

Join Dr Ian Pollock for a discussion of some of the tools, techniques, and processes we use to give information new affordances and do a bit of critical unpacking.

This conversation is best for practitioners looking to pick up tools and tips or critique themselves and make the industry better, clients wondering why they can’t make head or tail of what should be good research, and researchers wondering why their work isn’t making more impact.

Who should attend?

This conversation is ideal for policymakers and program managers in the public sector engaging in new ways of thinking and doing, or anyone interested in how public sector innovation can explore new possibilities for impact. 

About Paper Giant

We are a strategic design consultancy operating across Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. At Paper Giant, we believe better products, services, and policies lead to a more just, equal and sustainable society. So, we help organisations create a positive impact through work that considers the perspectives and lived experiences of the people it affects and works towards creating the future we want.

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