bio.t BQ Capability nano courses
wanting to level up your design thinking?
We’ve decoupled the teaching programs Melissa does, to create our new bio.t BQ Capability nano courses. So you can build the capabilities you need for the circular biotech wave.
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You’re a thinker but don’t have the bandwidth to go deep. You might be an Exec people lead, a Board member or industry leader. You might be a management, design or sustainability consultant. You might be an educator. You might even be an investor.
You might be asking yourself, for you (or your team):
How do I strengthen my strategic thinking? How do I strengthen my disruptive practice? How do I keep abreast of the latest in disruptive design thinking?
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to get the inside track on disruptive regenerative biotech thinking?
to upskill in biomimicry design, living systems design or living ethics design thinking?
to tap into Nature’s strategic levers and design principles so you can lift your business performance, efficiency, scalability and resilience?
to access cutting-edge Biomimicry edge case studies?
to be handed a rigorous curation served up simply, so you don’t have to do any heavy lifting.
bio.t BQ nano course Adaptation, Resilience and Living Systems thinking
Online live Zoom | 6 modules | 8 weeks
Melissa’s cornerstone course that introduces you to Nature’s living systems thinking. It helps strengthen your strategic sense-making for disruptive plays, and resilience building.
Each week in turn, we go through a different living system model, to learn the levers that strengthen your strategy practice. Where to play. What to leverage. How to deploy.
As run within the Academy EX professional Masters programs, and with Callaghan Innovation’s dynamic capability program for CEOs. Leveled up with Nature’s disruptive adaptive strategies and design principles.
This course is designed for strategists, change-agents and start up disruptors. No prior knowledge required.
In-house courses only, tailored to suit.
bio.t BQ nano course Symbiosis and Evolutionary game theory
Online live Zoom | 4 modules | 6 weeks
This is a dedicated course to introduce you to the core principles of how Nature does symbiotic relationships (Nature’s #1 low energy strategy). It strengthen your network / collab / circular / partnership skills for scale and growth.
Each week in turn, we go through a different aspect, to learn the levers that strengthen your partnership practice.
As run within the Academy EX professional Masters programs. Leveled up with Nature’s strategies, and woven in with te ao Māori principles.
This course is designed for circular founders, social enterprises, and organizational team leads. No prior knowledge required.
In-house courses only, tailored to suit.
bio.t BQ nano course Biomimicry and Nature’s biotech design thinking
Online live Zoom | 10 modules | 12 weeks
This is your opportunity to get ahead of the game. Get the inside track on how you can blueprint biomimicry principles into your business to strengthen your strategic innovation practice.
Each week, we go through a different aspect of business to learn how Nature solves for these same challenges - from supply chain to sales, from manufacturing to marketing, from insight to IT, from energy to exec management. Illustrated with cutting edge cross-sector case studies, and comes with key take-away principles.
This course is designed for functional business unit heads, innovation leads and design thinkers. No prior knowledge required. .
In-house courses only, tailored to suit.
what are Nature’s design thinking capabilities?
and why do they matter?
If we want to tap into the huge market-disrupting opportunities opening up - and strengthen our complex adaptive resilience - we need new capabilities.
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As global markets price in Nature, there is a rapidly growing global movement amongst business pioneers to shift from human centred design thinking but life centred design thinking.
Why? Because it doesn’t just protect from risk, it opens up huge market disrupting opportunities for innovation, new revenue streams, and profitable growth.
If we use Nature’s design playbook, we can radically reinvent the business world around us, that’s been designed with dysfunctional 20th (and sometimes 19th) century thinking.
Nature’s design thinking isn’t just less polluting, it’s higher tech, higher performance, higher efficiency, higher scalability and higher resilience.
But it requires a big shift in our strategic thinking and innovation practice.
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The big shift is from human-centred to life-centered thinking. How we sense, sense-make and then seize opportunities. For example:
Instead of asking “how might we?” in an innovation design challenge, we ask “how does Nature?”.
Instead of diagnosing market trends in a strategic review, we diagnose the market ecosystem and industry system that the market rests on.
Instead of using standard systems thinking to network map nodes, we use Nature’s living systems to explore pressure points and levers.
Instead of looking for design inspiration and exemplars within the human world, we look to champion adaptive species in the beyond-human world.
Instead of learning how to minimise our Nature footprint, we learn from Nature to emulate 3.8B years of R&D practice.
Our sensing, our sense-making, our benchmarking, our seizing of opportunities looks to the functionality of how life functions, in living systems, in lived relationships, leveraging life’s principles.
We get really curious about how Nature solves for the same problems we face. For example:
How does Nature build resilience? How does Nature deal with disruption? How does Nature manage resources, waste, information? How does Nature trade, broker, partner, sell?
This is why we call it Nature’s design thinking playbook.
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Business model innovation (BMI), Design thinking, and Dynamic capabilities all centre around our understanding of value.
Our research shows that Nature functions by designing across not one, but four value axes. They each work interdependently together.
i. Value flow, ii. Value regeneration, iii. Equitable value exchanges, and iv. Value potentiality.
This matters, massively, if we’re out to disrupt our world. It opens up incredible opportunities strategically, and it deepens our innovation practice.
The good news is we don’t have to be scientists to do this, we don’t even have to be playing in biotech. We just need to be open to a little reprogramming in how we think about value, value risk, and value potential. So that, when we re/engineer our strategy and business models, or re/design our innovations, we’re better able to sense, seize, scale and transform value.
If we get technical, it’s a shift from ordinary capabilities => dynamic capabilities => bio-dynamic capabilities. It’s why we call it building your BQ™. Your biological smarts.
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Why do we work like this? Because the rewards are big.
When we use Nature's playbook to better sense, seize and scale, we don’t just play at the highest order of sustainability, we open up the potential for:
New revenue streams
New markets
Scalable demand-led growth
Lower costs
Improved access to capital
De-risked profit margins
(It also brings us all that nice stuff like industry recognition and awards).
Welcome to the bright side.
