Taming Complexity
Our inspiration
Trivista Strategies was inspired by the trivium, a Latin term that literally means "the place where three roads meet."
It has been used in various contexts throughout history, including in ancient Roman architecture and engineering, where it referred to a meeting place of three roads or pathways.
In medieval education, the trivium referred to the three foundational subjects of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Trivista uses the essence of design thinking to help clients achieve their goals in a sustainable way. We explore new ideas, shape them into something meaningful, and bring them together into something amazing. Our values of hard work, gentleness, graciousness, and optimism guide our approach.
Our main trivium includes the principles around divergence, emergence, and convergence - and how these show up in terms of how people think, how they act, and how they work with one another to solve problems and create solutions. There’s nothing especially new here except for our dogged determination to use design thinking to its fullest extent.
Divergence
This is the practice of going broad: considering everything from observing the present to imagining possibilities for the future
Emergence
This is about ambiguity: sussing out the tensions, paradoxes, and insights amidst the complexities and nuances of our real-world contexts
Convergence
This is about action: upholding the human inclination to just get going, but more deliberately so in a way that has been informed
At Trivista, we turn the idea of a lab into something less physical and more practical: a convening to explore challenges and opportunities in a creative and collaborative way. Our services are carefully designed to support you and your team - with a team of experts in design thinking, strategy, and innovation, we work alongside you to find innovative solutions.
Our expertise in business, people, and operational services can help you address your specific challenges, from crafting a strategic narrative to designing a digital service delivery model. Whether you need to build a transformation roadmap, design an organizational structure, or create a people strategy aligned to your business goals, we have the experience and expertise to support you.
Meet Matt Collier
Meet Matt Collier, the Principal Consultant at Trivium Labs. Matt is a cross-sector leader with 15+ years of experience spanning the Obama Administration, a global design thinking consultancy, and financial services in APAC.
He has a track record of turning around teams, building them from scratch, leading enterprise-wide initiatives, and advising CEOs and directors. Matt is known as a skilled fixer and for his love of a tough assignment.
You can contact Matt directly at 8718 8297 or matt@trivistastrategies.com.
For the Geeks: Are there any new ideas in the world?
The word innovation comes from the Latin verb "innovare," which means to make new again, renew, or alter. While today's culture of innovation may seem to emphasize the creation of entirely new things or ideas, the original meaning of innovation suggests something different: the process of taking what already exists and making it new again.
Innovation often involves a combination of existing ideas or technologies, repurposed in a new way. The iPhone, for example, combined features of several existing devices - the phone, the camera, the clock, and the web browser - into a single new device. Similarly, many of the products and services we take for granted today are the result of incremental innovations built upon earlier innovations.
Innovation can also occur through the reimagining of existing business functions. In the realm of back-office functions like HR, Finance, Technology, Risk and Compliance, Marketing, Communications, etc., innovation might mean applying new technologies, creating new workflows, or changing the way people work together to deliver results.
Innovating in this way requires a deep understanding of what already exists, along with a willingness to experiment and take risks. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, the task before business leaders today is to identify what's around them, what's working, what's not working, and then think creatively about how to make it new again.
At Trivista Strategies, we have taken inspiration from the ethos of innovare to build the business itself. We didn’t set out to create a completely new consulting model or approach. Rather, we sought to distinguish ourselves by going back to the basics: trivium is an enduring philosophy from across history and the human experience.
Our main trivium includes the principles around divergence, emergence, and convergence - and how these show up in terms of how people think, how they act, and how they work with one another to solve problems and create solutions. There’s nothing especially new here except for our dogged determination to use design thinking to its fullest extent.
But there are many other fields and domains where trivium shows up, ranging from music to education to architecture. These can be used as parallels when inspiration is needed for something we’re working on or when we need a proven model or construct. Again, no need to reinvent the wheel. Go with what works. Innovare, baby!