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Welcome to Fieldnotes where Nicola shares emerging ideas, sketches, musings and methods. Aimed at active practitioners, our methods support sustainability integration in a way that makes a future shift to regenerative business more possible.

Incite’s frameworks and other materials are all licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA).

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Save the Date: Embracing Complex Transitions – March, 2025
4 November 2024
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Ubuntu might be more than you think
by Nicola Robins 3 November 2024
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Materiality Madness: Seven Steps to Subvert the Orthodoxy
by Nicola Robins 8 September 2024
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Flexing the Curve: Good and Bad News
by Nicola Robins 9 August 2024
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The Sustainability Triad
by Nicola Robins 9 August 2024
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Updated 5A framework for sustainability transition
by Nicola Robins 9 June 2024
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What makes a sustainability leader?
by Nicola Robins 10 October 2023
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Indigenous Knowledge is Not the Solution
by Nicola Robins 5 August 2023
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Purpose is a Fad
by Nicola Robins 4 August 2023
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Executives and ESG: A Stockholm syndrome relationship?
by Nicola Robins 15 June 2023
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Cynefin for Sustainability Practitioners
by Nicola Robins 20 May 2023
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The practice of reconnection
13 May 2023
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Five barriers to Sustainability/ESG integration and how to overcome them
by Nicola Robins 23 April 2023
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A Simple Typology of Sustainability Initiatives
by Nicola Robins 15 April 2023
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PEI: How to generate a set of Profit-Enabled Impact patterns for your company
by Nicola Robins 3 April 2023
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ESG Pushback and the Regenerative Era
by Nicola Robins 2 April 2023
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Flotsam and Jetsam: Meditating on your Intersect with Society and Nature
by Nicola Robins 11 March 2023
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PEI: Why is Ideator based on patterns?
by Nicola Robins 23 February 2023
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PEI: Using Profit-Enabled Impact patterns to reveal opportunities
by Nicola Robins 22 February 2023
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Ideator: Inclusive innovation for Profit-Enabled Impact
by Nicola Robins 22 February 2023
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What is Sustainability? What is ESG?
by Nicola Robins 20 February 2023
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VIROS: Incite’s approach to materiality analysis
by Nicola Robins 18 December 2022
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Our first Sustainability Retreat was a blast!
by Nicola Robins 5 November 2022
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Incite’s inaugural practitioner retreat
14 September 2022
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PEI: How to use the Profit-Enabled Impact Canvas
23 May 2022
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Incite’s Business Model Canvas
by Nicola Robins 23 May 2022
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Developing a Strategic Framework for Sustainability
by Nicola Robins 3 April 2022
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Sustainability vs ESG: A troublesome split in disclosure?
by Nicola Robins 27 November 2021
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A scoot around the ESG data and disclosure landscape
by Nicola Robins 6 November 2021
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A few thoughts on resilience
by Nicola Robins 17 October 2021
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