Exploring co-design – Jisc’s new approach to innovation

Wilson improvement areas

»‘The portfolio is too large’

»‘The application process is opaque’

»‘Few projects are translated into live services or take too long to develop’

»‘It is important for Jisc not to see itself primarily as a research organisation or to engage in a large number of speculative projects’

Wilson advice to Digital Futures

»Jisc activity focused on achieving large impact

»Activities clearly linked to the sectors’ priorities

»Services and projects… significantly reduced in number

»Research and development activity focused on horizon-scanning and thought leadership

Co-design principles

» Focused - do less better, be realistic

» User-centred – evolving process, involve users in projects

» Partnership – all projects co-designed, co-owned and co-implemented via an open and transparent process

» Agile - a light touch approach

» Experimental – taking proportionate risks, try new things

Decide DevelopDeliver &Disperse

Design

Decide on themes

Start projects

Decide next steps

Prioritise ideas

Explore problems and opportunities

Scope and plan projects

Produce minimum viable

products

Customer ready

products

Debrief

Co-design steering group

Theme 1

£w

Theme 2£x

Theme 3£y

Theme 4£z

JLT then Jisc

Board

Jisc and co-design

partners prepare

intelligence on prioritiesCo-design

steering group recommend themes and

budgets

JLT and Jisc Board approve

themes and budgets

Theme co-designers

identify ideas &

opportunities

Projects are commissioned

What do we mean by a theme?

» Make sense to Vice Chancellors and Principals without additional explanation;

» Is expressed as a problem, challenge or opportunity not as a project or solution;

» Produce something concrete within 3 years and will continue being productive beyond that timescale;

» Have solid evidence for demand or address a recognised problem.

Possible themes (suggested by Phil Richards)

» Lifting the student number cap• This may present opportunities to rethink student

record systems as models for recruiting students may change. This could directly impact the universities bottom line.

» MOOCs for the masses• Many colleges and universities are interested in the

possibilities offered by MOOCs. There may be benefits in offering a national MOOC platform.

» Scalable approaches to Research Data and Equipment• Universities need to develop processes and services

to manage research data and equipment. There may be benefits in providing some services as shared national services.

Over to you

»On the index cards on your table please write one theme per card

»On each card please write• A description of the theme in a sentence• Why you think it is important to address this theme

»You have 10 minutes to do this and then we will go around the room and ask people to tell us about their themes

Find out more…

Andy McGregorDeputy Chief Innovation Officer

a.mcgregor@jisc.ac.uk

info@jisc.ac.ukjisc.ac.uk

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND

Extra slides

Co-design pilot 2013-14

1. Access and identity management

2. National monograph strategy

3. Summer of student innovation

4. Digital student

5. Open mirror

6. Spotlight on the digital

7. Extending Knowledge Base +

Five original Co-design partners: RLUK, RUGIT, SCONUL, UCISA and Jisc

Co-design example: Summer of student innovation 2013

“... And through the whole summer of student innovation I think you’ve really pushed the limits. You’ve brought innovation. You’ve spurred that flame of entrepreneurship within students, and that’s really important.”Robert Chokr (University of Bath) NovumSci

Themes

Pedagogy and teaching

Research

Student life

#studentideas

Jisc Summer of Student Innovation 2014

How it works:

» Create – Make a video to explain your idea

» Share – Upload your video and encourage people to vote

» Vote - If you hit the voting target we will consider it for funding

So if you have a brainwave, come and join us for a Summer of Student Innovation:

jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation

Co-design steering group suggested membership

› Original Co-design partners– RCUK, RUGIT, SCONUL, UCISA

› PVC teaching

› PVC research

› AoC

› ETF

› BUFDG

› ALT

› NUS

Retaining ‘in-year agility’

Annual ideas gathering

Ad hoc ideas prioritisation

Ideas bank 60% of projects

Majority low risk40% of projectsSome medium and high risk

Early explore

Midexplore

Lateexplore

Scaling up Co-design

› Lessons learnt from Co-design pilot

› Risks of scaling up– Overloading individual Co-design partners– Failing to span all Jisc impact areas

› Organise under big strategic themes e.g.– Lifting the student number cap– Scalable approaches to research data, old and new

› Retro-fitting existing project portfolio

Strategic framework impact areas

Ourcustomer

s

Research enablement

Sector and enterprise efficiency

Teaching, learning & student

experience

Open agenda

Collaboration & inter-national-isation

Digital standards & policies

Digital translation from other

sectors/industries

Institutional

& academic leadership

in the digital

age

Cyber security & access

& identity manage-

ment

Data & analytics

Example – Futures pipeline layer cake

New people & policy development

New big data and content access

Open software on demand

Cloud computing capacity

Identity, access and security

Janet 6 network

Futures pipeline risk distribution

High

Futuresprojects

commissioned

Risk of Futures project not leading to production service

Low Few

Many

Conversion to new production Jisc services

Futures pipeline

Jisc product catalogueJisc.ac.uk/membership

Co-design developme

nt cycle

and handover

Jisc impact areas

Stakeholder prioritisation

Risk distribution

or guidance, lessons learnt, etc.