CREATIVE/ Design THINKING &
PROBLEM SOLVING
Innovation encounter – it was my experience last week coming back to KL. It was the name of the module that Edwin is teaching at Taylor’s University and I am grateful that he was willing to share with me his knowledge and experience. It was maybe the first time that I have a proper orientation about design thinking. I'm glad that I came back to KL for that.
Design thinking was reframed into the process of Understand – Observe – Ideate – Prototype. As I associate it with my previous experiment and readings, it really helps me organize and strengthen my understanding and his sharing from the perspective of technical expert and consultant provided many practical insights of design thinking. It builds more knowledge and confidence for my next trip to Kuching. Preparing for the workshop, I also explored techniques to enhance thinking and creativity in design thinking. Edwin shared with me some Lateral thinking technique from De Bono. It came from different form, but I found interesting to link with 5 creativity skills of innovators (HBR). I was introduced to the book ‘The Luck Factor’ by Richard Wiseman. From his experiment, he found that lucky people are the ones who can spot obvious opportunities that others miss. I find myself not so good at this skill and need much more practice. Reaching the last stage of GIST, I wonder sometimes of what I have achieved. But the process of going through the learning has helped me to understand about myself, strengths and weaknesses. Hope that the experience and learning will be good with more synthesis effort – a way to practice creativity & design thinking.
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