Creativity and Design of Identity and Community

Rita thinks of technology as a prism held up to the bright beam of the imagination to create a new global culture and economy. Rita J. King is innovator-in-residence at IBM's Analytics Virtual Center, a security futurist at the Aspen Institute, and a senior fellow at two think-tanks. She works globally across platforms to produce creative mixed media, mixed-reality events, research projects, broadcasts and related products. Storyteller, artist and writer, she is the founder and Creative Director of Leveling Up, a company that develops business strategy, immersive narrative, multimedia, games, conferences and other events for the Imagination Age. King espouses the creative use of digital technology to inhabit ideas, facilitate new dialogue and collaborate on solutions to challenging issues.

Sense and Adapt

What if, for the entire lifespan of a major, strategic project, you could monitor and measure what’s really going on from the perspective of the people who are doing the work day in and day out? What if you could share this qualitative and quantitative data directly with senior leaders, who could then take immediate action to fix problems, create clarity and keep the project on track? Surveys are often impersonal, with incomplete information that flows one way, often out of context. Instead, Science House created the Sense and Adapt system to bring teams together across levels to build a flexible and agile capability on big projects. Sense and Adapt generates an honest assessment of key project metrics on a monthly basis, along with anonymized feedback from members of the team. This report includes the monitoring of metrics that are relevant to your project. Sense and Adapt also contributes to real time leadership training and problem solving. Teams continuously learn and adapt to optimize their own contributions to the mission, while senior leaders have a new view into the reality of the work they are entrusted with completing. The key to the Sense and Adapt system is to get better at sensing issues and adapting the organization to solve the problems and challenges discovered.