About the Disruptive Innovators Network
What we do
Disruptive Innovators Network is a membership network that brings together social housing leaders and their teams, to help their businesses deal with disruption and become more innovative, future-ready and deal with the problems, challenges and opportunities happening now and coming their way.
For social housing organisations investing in corporate innovation, technology and thinking differently to help transform their business, Disruptive Innovators Network (DIN) can help equip them with the tools, knowledge and relationships to help them succeed.
Our members get access to a diverse network of professionals and experts, fostering opportunities for knowledge exchange, collaborative learning and strategic partnerships.
With the majority of our focus on discovery and experiential learning from outside the sector, we capture and explore the best of the best, so our members are guaranteed fresh insights, content and new peer networks, while sharing the cost, risk and impact of innovation and change.
To make it as straightforward as we can, our four channels of delivery: leadership, digital and data, people and culture and property, are shaped to give members the opportunity to increase their organisation’s chances of navigating change more effectively.
What’s more, membership is company-wide, giving organisations the flexibility to maximise their membership across their business.
How we do it
- Horizon scanning future developments, trends and technologies to assess their impact and value to the social housing sector
- Through inspiring and engaging members to work ‘on’ the business to see the bigger picture by connecting with out of sector leaders.
- Expanding members’ peer networks with leaders in other sectors and countries looking to tackle similar problems
- Identifying the risks and opportunities that disruption will bring to our member organisations
- Working alongside our members to navigate the new business models that may disrupt the sector
- Creating new opportunities and a safe space for our members to work collaboratively to define problems better and identify innovative solutions
- Focusing on failure and celebrating the ability to stop before investing too much time, effort and money
- Highlighting that nobody is alone and there are opportunities to meet and share with other members experiencing the same problems
- Being open to everyone. Whilst DIN is particularly for people in leadership positions, our business-wide membership means anyone can benefit.
Business benefits
- Strategic foresight so individuals can build their skills and their organisation’s corporate innovation capacity
- Early insights into emerging technologies and new models of service design that may disrupt or assist the housing sector
- The ability to test and learn at speed and understand what works for each organisation
- A shared, collaborative experience facilitated by respected leaders and practitioners in their field
- The benefit of sharing costs and risks
- Excellent ROI compared to doing it alone
- Access to some of the best thought leaders and businesses outside of the housing sector to engage with and learn from
- Fresh insights, challenge and inspiration to make work better
Find out more about the Disruptive Innovators Network events here.
