Humble Discovery

Create Change with Humble Discovery

History elevates and celebrates game changers. These are people that have overcome numerous challenges, setbacks, rejections and failures to bring a new idea, invention, understanding or discovery to life for the benefit of humanity.  But change is hard because it requires humans to take risks and deviate from status quo and business as usual. This requires behaviour change, which is incredibly complex because humans and the world we live in are incredibly and beautifully complex.

At UQ we are developing a new approach - Humble Discovery - where new knowledge, discovery, development and deployment occurs through collaboration between researchers, industry and the community working together. We’re focused on helping the brightest minds work alongside organisations, investors and the community to co-create disruptive, transformational new products, services and organisations.

We’re on a mission to reduce the distance between ideas and innovations, between problems and solutions, between today and tomorrow. So, we're constantly developing methods, tactics, tools and resources to help innovators and game changers influence the world, for good.

“Humble Discovery” is a bit like a cross between Customer Discovery, Humble Inquiry and Design Thinking. The key nuanced difference is that its more focused on understanding stakeholders’ (as opposed to customers’) human behaviour in order to identify opportunities to modify behaviour with new products, services and business models to help them achieve a goal.

In this introductory video, UQ Business School Industry Professor and Entrepreneur in Residence, Cameron Turner, outlines how “Humble Discovery” can help you create change. 

Watch this short video to see how and why we are using Humble Discovery to help researchers engage and collaborate with industry and the community.

The 7 modules

Module 1: Understanding and influencing human behaviour – For good 

Module 2: Discovering and Understanding Your Who 

Module 3: How do you discover problems worth solving and opportunities worth creating? 

Module 4: Identifying Insights, Testing Assumptions and Finding Stakeholders 

Module 5: A Desirable Feasible and Viable Business Model 

Module 6: Creating Disruptive Business Models 

Module 7: Creating Impact from Innovation 

If you like the first module below, complete this short survey and we’ll send you access to the remainder of the modules.