Codesign
Codesign excels at uniting diverse stakeholders, fostering collaboration, and rapidly solving complex challenges. With over 100 workshops delivered in the last five years, our extensive experience ensures impactful outcomes.
Codesign workshops are central to our project approach. We leverage a refined methodology and a national specialist network to deliver highly engaging and creative sessions. Designed collaboratively with you, these workshops can span a few hours to several days, conducted in urban, regional, or online settings.
100+
Workshops
Delivered across diverse sectors and communities over the last five years.
2000+
Participants
Engaged, from executives to community members, integrating diverse perspectives.
50+
Organisations
Served, including governments, universities, corporations, and community groups.
Project Examples
1
Fight MND
Global Research Roundtable 2024 – Designed and delivered a two-day roundtable in Melbourne, uniting leading Motor Neurone Disease researchers to share insights and develop a global collaboration strategy for accelerated impact.
2
Agriculture Victorian and Wine Victoria
Wine Industry Strategy – Developed a collaborative strategy for the Victorian Government and Wine Victoria, featuring extensive consultation, regional codesign workshops, an online First Peoples forum, and a major stakeholder workshop.
3
University of Melbourne
Research Roundtable – Orchestrated a codesign workshop with senior executives from three Victorian Government Departments and key Faculty of Business and Economics researchers to explore research challenges and capabilities.
The Power of Codesign
Today's challenges facing businesses, governments, and communities are increasingly complex.
These challenges are often ill-defined, interconnected, and rapidly evolving. No longer can a single person or group resolve them alone.
Codesign condenses weeks, months, or even years of complex problem-solving into hours or days by uniting the right people with crucial information and effective processes. It is a powerful tool for building alignment and ownership among diverse stakeholders, accelerating progress, and catalysing innovation.
More than a mere facilitation method, it's a philosophy, a mindset, and a distinct way of working.
At atticusnow, our proven codesign approach integrates diverse problem-solving methodologies with our team's extensive knowledge and experience across various sectors, frameworks, and communities.
With in-house expertise and a national network of specialists, we can scale to deliver codesign events across the country. We leverage this capability to create powerful, memorable experiences that spark real breakthroughs for our clients and their stakeholders.
Our codesign services encompass community forums, discovery workshops, codesign workshops, and board or executive strategy workshops. We deliver these both in-person and virtually, utilising a comprehensive suite of digital platforms.
Benefits of Codesign
Deeper Understanding
Involving diverse team members and stakeholders builds a richer, more nuanced understanding of complex issues.
Empowerment
Codesign gives participants a genuine voice, fostering strong ownership and commitment.
Unlocking Creativity
Combining different perspectives catalyses innovation and sparks breakthrough ideas.
Accelerated Solutions
Well-facilitated codesign dramatically accelerates project progress and outcomes.
Engagement
Effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders is crucial for solving complex challenges and is a cornerstone of our projects. We employ a diverse range of tools and techniques, including stakeholder and issues mapping, engagement plans, interviews, surveys, submission processes, forums, and roundtables.
Our engagement extends across both online and in-person settings. We possess extensive experience working with diverse stakeholders, including regional communities, First Peoples, multicultural communities, and people with disabilities.
Interviews
In-depth conversations with key stakeholders to gather perspectives and insights.
Surveys
Collecting quantitative and qualitative data from diverse stakeholder groups.
Forums and Roundtables
Convening diverse stakeholders for structured dialogue and exchange.
Submission Processes
Managing formal consultation processes and synthesizing stakeholder input efficiently.
Stakeholder Mapping
Identifying and analysing stakeholder relationships, interests, and influence.
Project Examples
1
Geoscience Australia
Stakeholder Engagement Strategy – Developed and implemented a comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategy for the Repository Data Management & Delivery (RPMD) project, a proposed digital platform for sharing GA's information resources. Activities included interviews, a survey, online and in-person forums, and journey mapping using key user personas (2024).
2
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee
Commonwealth Games RAP – Developed a draft Reconciliation Action Plan for the Commonwealth Games, informed by engagement with six regional Aboriginal communities. This involved research, interviews, and forums, with our team including Indigenous consultants from our national network (2023).
3
Fight MND
Impact Framework – Developed a framework to measure and communicate impact to key stakeholder groups. This project involved extensive engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including interviews and a series of codesign workshops (2023).