CREATIVE/ Design THINKING &
PROBLEM SOLVING
It’s time for reflection. I’m still trying to synthesize my learning from the past few months…Still working in progress.
But the last three meetings in Singapore and the meeting with UNICEF Innovation Lab in HCMC were quite interesting. I shared with them my learning and questions from the workshops and somehow it led to the discussion of creating environment and leadership for innovation and creative problem solving (i.e design thinking). One trainer shared with me that it is not that leaders don’t know that they have to empathy with people, with their team; but they find to have insufficient time to prioritize given the pressure of business performance. Similarly an associate professor from Innovation center of NUS shared the finding from his Ph.D that most of the creative ideas fall short in the implementation phase as there seems to be a gap between the knowledge creation space – the routine operations and the idea creation space – where innovation happens. So the challenge is to create and nurture the environment for creativity and innovation. It can comprise of many factors like leadership, the organizational culture and the physical space. We find the physical space is just as important as other factors as it can influence people behaviors when they are in that space. Maybe that’s why big corporation like Google create working space that makes people feel free and creative when they are in. Working process, policies are also factors that make up the physical structure that will support or not support the innovation space in organization. I guess, it takes holistic approach from physical to mindset, attitude and skills to help people become more creative and create creative culture in organization. But as we always said, start small and experiment. We can always start somewhere..small but meaningful. And it requires collaboration as UNICEF identify as key for innovation to happen.
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