CREATIVE/ Design THINKING &
PROBLEM SOLVING
First week in Bangkok, I happened to join some events about social enterprise (SE) in Bangkok and gain some understanding about the social enterprise ecosystem in Thailand. It is good to see so much interest about social enterprise, especially in education and support of government through to drive the development of this sector.
Talking to some SE entrepreneurs, I was shared about the challenges of sustainability and scalability in most of the SEs – not just because of the financial factor, but because of the lack of innovation. One of them came to share about the current challenge of the organization in a design thinking workshop and seek participants support in creating new solutions. Without understanding the workshop in Thai language, I still can see how design thinking as a process can help stimulate discussion and generate ideas to help the business owners. It opened up an opportunity for me to come and meet with his team to share about design thinking and see how we can use that to tackle another challenge later this week. Bringing the thought of innovation to Bangkok university, I was shared they are driving to make creativity a core of the curriculum. It is needed not just for social enterprise but for all businesses, and especially entrepreneurs. And it is tied closely with leadership. As creativity is perhaps one of the most important leadership qualities of leaders in the 21st century. And I remember a CEO of a start-up group here shared with me that most social enterprise/ entrepreneurial businesses fail because of the CEO..Innovation starts with the people.
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