Kc Social Innovation Center

RethinkEd

Consulting - KCSIC provides consulting and expertise to clients as a think and do tank helping create a sandbox for technology, community, education and business to collaborate to explore and catalyze solutions to bring value to digitally empowered communities. In 2018, KCSIC helped assess Metropolitan Community College's internal capacity for innovation to help map a route for innovation practices around a core set of engagement and experiences designed for staff and faculty, with the goal of accelerating the modernization of the institution's people, spaces and places to better meet student and community needs. Notably, KCSIC 1 introduced Design Thinking to the Chancellor's Innovation Council, 2 led an institutional kickoff with a Summer Innovation Summit event that resulted in 36 idea submissions, three of which advanced to a demo day style pitch at the annual In-Service event where one project received an investment of $10,000 and two other projects were awarded internal capacity and resources to launch their concept throughout the District and 4 helped MCC create a process and protocol to support and advance ideas, scaffolding an Innovation in a box Playbook, coordinating Design Thinking workshops for innovation-curious staff/faculty, and providing capacity and training for innovation leaders and project teams, and innovation coaching to help projects and ideas advance.