RED4SUS
Application Manual

Do you want to be involved and work with new methods to develop new services and solutions for society with a view to a sustainable future? Then you can use this manual and its toolkit. In the journey towards a sustainable future, we may need to work with new solutions. Solutions from the last century are not sufficient for today challenges. We must develop our ability to think in new directions. How do we do this? It is difficult to develop solutions outside the traditional ways of thinking. Below, we describe a three-step method as a guide for working with radical societal change. We describe a method in three steps that creates innovation capacity and the ability to implement new solutions.

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Start by looking at PREPARATION and how to put together a good work team to work with the needed changes. Then move on to the next step; to work out and design SOLUTION PROPOSALS  and how these can be concretized in prototypes. Prototypes that are then tested and developed in iterative loops. Finally, one can then think about how to implement the prototype, i.e., how to go from a generated prototype to really change a process, organization or society by implementing this prototype. Read more about this step under the heading IMPLEMENTATION.

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These three steps can be carried out during some few days, or form the backbone of a development process that runs over several months. Regardless of how long the change work takes, these three steps form a good basis for a successful societal change. This handbook has been designed by the staff at UFRGS and Uppsala University to guide and inspire on the journey to develop sustainable innovation for public service.

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