"The challenge is to provide affordable, demand-led tools and environments, helping people and communities to engage with learning, capacity-building
and regeneration agenda on their own terms..." David Dickinson and Roger Harnden, 2003

Unlike Minds is a group of professionals with many years experience in a range of fields and disciplines. Sharing a core vision as to human potential, we form an associative network.

Our mission is to increase the intelligence and flexibility of organisations and institutions whose effective interaction is necessary for the delivery of complex social initiatives.

What we do is help such bodies define projects in a way that is more likely to satisfy the key budget holders, shortening the procurement process.

Our effectiveness in achieving this is because of a deep understanding of two quite different dynamics:

the way large organisations in the public, private and third sectors work and interact;
the desires and goals of human individuals.

This understanding enables Unlike Minds to act as an intermediary between the dynamics of organisational processes and the very different dynamics required to nurture and support the endeavours of the people and communities involved.

The result is the delivery of social projects which encourage and help sustain a healthy balance between the indefinite variety of human individuality on the one hand, and the compromises necessary for social engagement on the other - a balance that is a pre-requisite for citizenship.

Unlike Minds' areas of interest include:

Economic development
Inward investment
Social inclusion
Information inclusion
Equity of opportunity
Regeneration
Community cohesion
Personal relevance
Personal navigation
Sustainability
Citizenship
Wellbeing
Service integration

Our thinking and approach is
informed by:

Management cybernetics
Systems thinking
Constructivism
Demand-led solutions
Personal relevance
Information engagement
Lifelong learning
Collaborative human capital
Markets of one
Digital ergonomics
Enabling network system
Web 2 / Web 3

Approaches & Tools

Accelerating the research process

A new approach to managing the relationship between academia and the private sector in complex multi-stakeholder programmes such as Building Schools for the Future

Breakthrough Performance Environments

Identifying the factors that need to be addressed to make performance excellence more likely

Horizon scanning and foresight mapping

A methodology for mapping social and policy trends against existing and emergent technologies as a means to inform strategic planning and decision making