We believe that inclusive business means products, services and customer experiences that work for everyone. We have developed three approaches, with healthy overlap between them, to support businesses to be more inclusive through social insight:
- Insight Sessions
Insight sessions allow people from business to get under the skin of societal issues and the realities of life for underserved and vulnerable customers. We run sessions online and in-person, over full days and in ‘bite-sized’ chunks, with active participation from client teams, and for large audiences, through webinars and podcasts. In all cases they’re designed and delivered with charity partners and lived experts from our own community. Our Outside In Project brings insight to a number of member businesses at once. - Inclusive Design and Product Testing
We gather lived experts in a wide range of circumstances to form panels. Those panels critique, test and help develop products, services and customer journeys – making them more understandable, accessible and inclusive. We run one-off and regular panels. Some are formed to bring specific experience, such as economic abuse or gambling-related harm, into businesses; in other cases, panels represent many different circumstances. Product owners from businesses play an active part in the sessions, experiencing the insight and feedback first-hand, making them well placed to then embed in the day-to-day and, when done at scale, to influence business culture. - Immersive Innovation
Immersive innovation is an in-depth sprint over two or three days designed to tackle big problem statements and opportunity areas. It starts with deep immersion in a vulnerability topic with an expert charity and the people it supports. The resulting insights help to generate new ideas and approaches. The best ideas are prototyped and then critiqued by the charity and lived experts to ensure they’ll do the job they need to do for vulnerable and underserved customers.
Providing the ‘glue’ throughout is our Lived Experts Research Community – a group of over 200 people whose lived experience, stories and ideas play a fundamental part in making our projects and programmes real, visceral and highly impactful.
You can learn more on our dedicated website for social insight – www.threehandsinsight.co.uk.