Calling DIBS
Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond to explore:
- how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges,
- how BI skills are used across sectors,
- how BI intersects with other fields,
- how to conduct BI projects,
- and how BI is advancing with new research.
Liner notes: Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh). Calling DIBS is edited by Rishad Habib, Siobhan Cook, Isabella Jaramillo, Parnian Ashrafi, Kashish Khatri, Olin Becker, and Kirstin Appelt. Intro and outro music are excerpts from “resonance” by airtone (2020; http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). New episodes are posted regularly September-May.
Calling DIBS
Behaviourally Informed Organizations: Understanding What Works When & for Whom (Episode 91)
Dilip Soman, Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, & Bing Feng, Manager of Behavioural Finance at TD Wealth.
In our second episode on the Behaviourally Informed Organizations partnership, Dilip Soman and Bing Feng tell us about international collaborations to reduce sludge in governments and work applying behavioural science to poverty reduction. Throughout, Dilip and Bing highlight the power of partnerships, the importance of context, new areas of research and application for behavioural science, and (of course) advice for embedding BI into organizations.