A Bit About If

We are leaders in designing and supplying innovation environments, and our creative consulting services lift up organisations worldwide.

Our motto is - Big Ideas - Better Insight - Best Life.

See the big picture with new eyes and listen to all stakeholders with new ears. We help organisations discover new insights and possibilities.

Some of our services include innovation scouting and facilitation, innovation audits, brainstorm facilitation, opportunity scoping, collaboration environment design, branding, web design and development, mobile application development, sms services, and social media strategy.

We design innovation platforms to engage the workforce and wider community in solution finding events using feature rich idea management tools and collaboration spaces.

We assist organisations to join the open innovation revolution, and remain competitive. Led by Brendan O'Keefe, innovation scout and innovation facilitator, If works primarily with not for profits, online start ups, local and state Government agencies.

What Clients Say

"Brendan O'Keefe is one of those restless, energizing souls who makes things happen wherever he goes. He is an ideas machine with the capacity and skills to deliver the goods. He helped me out in the early stages of my business development and helped me create some stuff that I continue to use to this day. If you get the chance to work with Brendan, TAKE IT!" - Larry Hochman, Life Coach, No More Holding Back.

"Brendan was most helpful with so many great ideas when we were developing several websites for our programs within youth homelessness. Brendan also was instrumental in supporting us to set up a SMS system to assist us to remain in contact with our clients. This was a very unique idea and when the system was up & running was considered one of the most successful tools we used to stay in touch with clients. Brendan is flexible, credible, diverse in his thinking and on the whole got us on track." - Mandy Baxter, Manager, Youth & Family Services. Melbourne Citymission.

Collaborate With Us

We would love to work on one of your projects. If you have an opportunity you think we contribute to, please contact us. If you have any questions or comments we have a handy contact form, or you can telephone us today! We will make it a priority to get back to you within 24 hours.

Social Innovation Lab - Philippines

We developed the Social Innovation Lab to bring together some of the Philippines best talent to work on social innovations using a variety of open source software. Our aim is to facilitate positive change in the Filipino community.
Our first project is Campus Connect.

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We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Collabratory Portal Development
• SMS Application Development

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ideas anywhere

Make a difference. Anywhere. Anytime.
ideas anywhere is distributed problem solving, idea generation and micro-volunteering via text messaging and mobile Internet.

Powerful, simple and portable.
This is social open innovation which embarks on a journey every time someone sets foot on public transport. ideas anywhere enables crowds of thousands to send solutions and ideas after sports games, concerts, festivals and other large scale events.

Make use of your mind and your downtime.

We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Mobile Application Development
• SMS Application Development

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TxTer Assist

Across the world, mobile phone technologies are proving to be a key tool for those working for social change. Young people and the organisations that support them face important issues today and need solutions to enable ease of access to services.

Txter Assist is a powerful solution and addesses the issue of access to service infromation. TxTer Assist works via keyword commands which you send to a dedicated mobile number. automated service enables young people to make informed choices and access free youth services & hotlines in a communication channel that suits them. The system is loaded with issue based keywords which represent current life situations which are important to young people. Keywords automatically trigger software where an appropriate response message which contains the contact information for a relevant service or helpline is instantly sent to the person's phone, so seeking help is only a click or two away.

A single mobile access point to important community service information and particularly youth specific content such as health, legal, education, employment and training is what young people need.
3 methods of accessing these directories are available via SMS, WAP and Mobile Internet.

We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Mobile Application Development
• SMS Application Development

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Ideathon

Ideathon is a marathon ideation event with a fundraising aspect. A Cross-pollination of idea generation and fundraising. A typical ideathon runs 7-60 days. Ideas are managed via a feature rich collaborative online brainstorming platform that allows anyone to submit solutions and collaborate on ideas which may benefit the host organisation and society.
Part idea generation, part team building, part community building, part fund-raising, part awareness building, the ideathon brings together many perspectives and positive elements to make one great event.

In the spirit of other sponsored marathon events such as MS Readathon, Spellathons and Walkathons, the ideathon enables organisations to engage a wider audience in a fund-raising campaign with a twist. In this case, sponsors support individuals and teams by donating an amount for each idea generated and each evaluated idea which is submitted to the site on behalf of the team.

The latest idea generation and creative thinking skills are taught as as part of this enjoyable event and participants learn to work as a team.

We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Open Innovation Platform Development
• Ideathon Kit Development

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FrontlineSMS:BullyProof

Open source mobile bullying incident reporting system
A new social innovation. A solution to reduce bullying which enables students to report anonymously and schools to respond instantly to bullying or cyber bullying incidences. FrontlineSMS:BullyProof software is available free to all schools and organisations that have an existing policy on bullying.
The system is a supplement to a schools policy with a simple and novel way of extending the ability to report incidents utilizing up to date forms of communication.

We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Mobile Application Development
• SMS Application Development

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The Brainstorming Kit

An open collaboration to create an open source kit with ideation and innovation resources for NGO's.
The plain white box (the kit) contains everything you can imagine you need to generate, refine and evaluate ideas. With this in mind the box is vast and the space contained within breaks away from the volume we have come to understand in a box....

A mobile version will be available to those working in the field or in remote areas.
This is a crowdsourced ebook. I invite you to submit content for a fresh new project called The Brainstorming Kit. Version 1.0 has a release date of July 1 2010. The ebook kit will be always be free and upgraded once or twice a year. It's an evolutionary product and it's a gift of creativity to all. If we develop a hard copy in the future, all profits will go to a charity voted on by all the contributors and authors. Perhaps in the future a business version, a community building version and an education version of the kit would be appropriate? What do you think? Any ideas you'd like to freely contribute at this stage?

We created the front end design, user experience & user interface elements along with extensive usability testing.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Mobile Application Development
• Content and Project Management

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eSmart

The Alannah and Madeline Foundation's Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative aims to make cybersafety a normal part of every young person's life by equipping them to use technologies in ways that protect them from the associated risks.

An eSmart school is a school where the smart, safe and responsible use of information and communications technology is a cultural norm. Students, teachers and the wider school community are equipped to embrace the best these technologies can offer, while being savvy about the pitfalls.

• Website UAT
• Content and Project Management
• Presentation Design

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Victoria Walks

Victoria Walks is a walking for transport initiative funded and supported by VicHealth.
Victoria Walks has all the tools, information and support to make neighbourhoods safer and more walk-friendly.

• Website UAT
• Content and Project Management
• Social Media Strategy

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City of Port Phillip

Community Pulse, which used to be known as the Sustainable Community Progress Indicators (SCPI) project, tracks long-term trends on our community's social, environmental, cultural and economic sustainability in collaboration with local residents and agencies. The indicators below provide examples of local trends in the different environments.

• Innovation Scouting and Facilitation
• Opportunity Scoping
• Presentation Design

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Frontyard Youth Services

Funded by Melbourne Citymission and the City of Melbourne, Frontyard co-located at Melbourne Citymission's head office. Frontyard helps young people who are homeless or in need of support. It is now the biggest service centre of its type in Melbourne's central business district.

• Concept, Web Design and Development
• Online Strategy
• SMS Application Development

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Where We Are

If you would like to meet face to face, we are located in Melbourne Australia.