What if success mattered? If someone told you that you would lose your job if your next client did not succeed, would you continue to provide services in the exact same way?
In this video, Independent Variable founder Adam Serlin leads a Social Innovation Training exercise that explores how general innovation practices, data strategies, and outside-the-box thinking can drive real impact in the social, public, and government sectors. Adam shares how Independent Variable’s journey from frontline community work to building open-source, data-driven performance management tools has shaped our mission: to help municipal governments, nonprofits, and public agencies improve services through creative thinking, accountability, transparency, and performance measurement.
We dive into how practitioners — whether inside or outside government — can use the power of data, creative problem-solving, and collaborative technology to respond to challenges that traditional systems often overlook. Whether you’re addressing our society’s most pervasive and consistent issues, or just trying to make things a little bit better in your local community, Independent Variable Social Innovation Training can be scaled to suit the specific needs of your project. We partner with local and state governments, nonprofits, and local organizations across the US to build scalable, reusable, useful tools that make data work for people, not the other way around.
If you’re interested in improving social, governmental and municipal services with the help of Social Innovation Training, this conversation is for you.